It is quite interesting and I think you may be right. I don't know what category or genre you would put my tastes in, but I suspect there a few people here that share it.
Okay, we'll have a fifth category for superhero fans who don't have a basic background in science fiction.
"Catcher in the Rye." I never met a more spoiled, vain, self-absorbed idiot than Holden Caulfield. This was supposed to be some epitome of the 50s/60s. I was too busy working myself up from being the son of a NC cabdriver to feel much identity with a brat like him who suffered enormously from being born with too much money. His willingness to identify everyone else as "phony" was, I think, Freudian.
Anti-hero or not, I hated the book as pointless drivel which I was forced to read/report on in HS. I think my report was about what I said above. Also on the list is "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon (sp?) set aside after 1/3 of the way through, never again touched, also due to self-absorbed, endlessly introspective characters.
Harry potter, Hunger games, 50 Shades, Maze Runner. Basically all those sucky young adult books. Except 50 Shades. That's not young aldult.
Oh yeah, Maze Runner... I couldn't get into it at all. Gave it a couple of chapters of pure unenjoyment and deleted it from my Kindle.
Yeah me too, and the film was worse Also Fanny Hill (memoirs of a woman of pleasure) dificult to read and very very disapointing
Well, 50 Shades of Grey was one for me. People had told me that it wasn't a great novel in terms of writing or nuances. But it was popular, so I was willing to give it a chance. I thought it would be entertaining and sexy. Unfortunately, to me it was neither. But it clearly spoke to a lot of people, so I don't want to disrespect that. The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Moby Dick were two novels where I really felt the whole spectrum of their plot, emotions, thoughts and what not could have been explained in a novella instead
I didn't read 50 shades but saw the movie and my takeaway was the same. Thomas Wolfe, my hometown author, was best on his first book, "Look Homeward, Angel" but went downhill from there. I didn't care for his stream of consciousness writing, but found the vignettes of Asheville NC from the teens and 20s to be interesting. Especially since I inherited his newspaper route that he described in Angel 40 years later.
I always thought Lord of the Rings sucked balls. I don't get what's so good about it. It's just a bunch of similarly-named characters walking for miles.
Doesn't sound like you ever read any of it. Which isn't to say there's no legitimate criticism of it. It's stylistically old-fashioned and in many places very slow-paced by modern standards. If you don't like that sort of thing, you're not going to enjoy these books.
I hated Moby Dick, and couldn't finish Les Miserables if my life depended on it. And Hemingway bores me to death.
I like Hemmingway's shorts a lot more than his novels. His shorts are so nuanced that they only get better each time you read them. If you're interested (not that there's anything wrong with not liking him, haha), Now I Lay Me and A clean, Well-Lighted Place are both fantastic short stories. Full of vibrancy and subtle brilliance that I certainly missed the first time I read either.
Shantaram So disappointed in myself reading this horoscope bollocks. Should have read David Icke instead, anything. Shaming episode, at least I'm only half-way through. Will never purchase an Australian book ever, ever, ever ever, ever again.