Books you hate that are always praised?

**Abcinthia** · 08-10-2012, 04:12 AM

For me, it's Lolita. It is always praised on book forums and most of my friends adore it.

Personally, I found it a terrible book and forced myself to the end hating every moment of it.

**Zorak** · 08-10-2012, 05:14 AM

Don Quixote for me.

HK · 08-10-2012, 05:18 AM

I could never stand anything by Charles Dickens. My mum tried to encourage me to read more classics when I was young, and they came up at school as well, but I always hated them.

**Abcinthia** · 08-10-2012, 06:22 AM

I hated Dickens when I was younger but then I read a couple last year (Great Expectations and Oliver Twist) and was surprised that I really enjoyed them.

**Kakapo Dundee** · 08-10-2012, 07:27 AM

Women's Weekly?

**porterjack** · 08-10-2012, 07:53 AM

the famous five series by enid blyton
ransomne's swallows and amazons

i detest the imagery of middle class bliss in post war britain, rosy cheeked kids with not a care in the world romping through the rolling hills solving crime and surviving with naught more than a scraped knee

meanwhile, back in the real world - teenage pregnancy, squalor in the inner cities, lice, sadistic bullying from teachers

i could go on

**Kakapo Dundee** · 08-10-2012, 08:08 AM

And Timmy said to Sophie,"Gosh, aren't those Canadians rude?"
Sophie smiled and replied "Daddy says it's because they're Colonials."
"Crikey!" Said Timmy. "Like those filthy Antipodeans?"
Sophie grinned."Exactly Timmy.You're so clever."

**porterjack** · 08-10-2012, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Kakapo Dundee

And Timmy said to Sophie,"Gosh, aren't those Canadians rude?"
Sophie smiled and replied "Daddy says it's because they're Colonials."
"Crikey!" Said Timmy. "Like those filthy Antipodeans?"
Sophie grinned."Exactly Timmy.You're so clever."

rep due for that - exactly - you know what i mean

lashings of whipped cream my arse

**End Of All** · 08-10-2012, 09:26 AM

ugh, the Twilight series.

**satinbutterfly** · 08-10-2012, 01:57 PM

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - I couldn't make it past the first five chapters. I was bored to tears.

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - I only made it halfway through. It just really wasn't interesting for me in the least.

**Kyle B** · 08-10-2012, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Zorak

Don Quixote for me.

Oh man, Don Quixote is such an awful and lame book. lol I couldn't get very far.

**dkwrtw** · 08-10-2012, 05:54 PM

Louisa May Alcott books.

**Jezzebelle** · 08-12-2012, 01:22 AM

Anything by the Bronte sisters. I despise the way the write women.

**Maulds** · 08-12-2012, 09:42 AM

OK not specifically books but Stephen King in general. Go ahead and crucify me but the first time I bothered to read his work it was The Langoliers and after that I just avoided him.