Ever read a book you thought you should like but didn't?

[HolmesGirl]

After having several people tell me I should read Life of Pi by Yann Martel, I finally did. "It's so good, you will love it!" they all said. Yes, it was beautifully written and contained important life messages, but I really didn't like it all that much. I'm almost embarrassed to say so, given how popular it was (and now there's a movie coming out). :mad2:

What about you? Any books you've read that are loved by the masses but not you?

[Calidore]

Hi, HolmesGirl. You might want to check out the thread below, unless you intended this one to be different.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?71691-Classics-you-wanted-and-expected-to-love-but-didn-t-%28and-don-t-know-why%29

[E.A Rumfield]

After having several people tell me I should read Life of Pi by Yann Martel, I finally did. "It's so good, you will love it!" they all said. Yes, it was beautifully written and contained important life messages, but I really didn't like it all that much. I'm almost embarrassed to say so, given how popular it was (and now there's a movie coming out). :mad2:

What about you? Any books you've read that are loved by the masses but not you?

Don't worry the fact that many people liked it likely means it was poor. I feel the same way about nearly every movie that comes out nowadays. The Dark Knight. Really, that's the best we can do? The masses are an easily lead group of people.

[HolmesGirl]

I agree with that. It wasn't film I was taken with either. I haven't found a good, supernatural one to enjoy, the last one I saw was Insidious and that was enough for me.

[HolmesGirl]

Thanks. Just taking me a while to get used to the site!

[Sarah Melo]

I read Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". I felt like the book was finished by the end of the first paragraph, which, by the way, is great (you can find it easily on google). But after the introduction is over there"s absolutely none of the 'poetic prose' I expected.

[davigalindo]

I agree. 'Lolita' ends after all the "light of my life, fire of my loins" and "Lo-lee-ta" stuff. Nabokov did a great work though. I mean, you can't really hate Humbert Humbert - how many charming pedos do you know?

Well, as I'm more into crap literature, the book I thought I'd like but didn't is Eragon. I left it after the first half. When it comes to classics, however, there's lots of Brazilian classics I really hated. José de Alencar is absolutely awful (even literature teachers admit it), yet we're forced to read his books in Brazilian high school.