Books you hate that are always praised?

[HotelCoralEssex]

I loved Lolita.

1984 or Brave New World. Only because it's mention will give way to a huge statement on globalization and society at large.

[Schnaufi]

I cannot really answer that question as I do really like most of the above-mentioned masterpieces and authors. Dickens, Bronte sisters, Nabokov, Stephen King and so forth. I am a student of literary studies. ;p Perhaps that's why I reveal a different approach to most of the books. I am going to be examined in one of Dickens' novels, for instance.

[pjbleek]

am thinking that some of the books I read for high school/college were personal choices from the professor/teacher but reading other choices that they thought were better than most: for example I liked 1984 but wasn't a fan of Animal Farm.

[Abcinthia]

I love the Brontes (read all of their novels except The Professor by Charlotte B. The only one I didn't enjoy much was Shirley, I adored Jane Eyre and Villette so I had high expectations for Shirley and it didn't live up to it) and King. Lolita just didn't do it for me.

I have another Nabokov novel, Mary, in my to-be-read pile. I'll see what I think of it. Perhaps the author's writing style just isn't for me or perhaps it was just the subject matter of Lolita that put me off.