Books/Authors you expected to like, but didn't
I'm currently reading Light in August by William Faulkner, and just finished Sanctuary (same author), and am quite frustrated to realize that I don't enjoy his work (I realize that other works like As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury are considered better by many). His history as a scriptwriter in Hollywood really shows through in his prose, I think, in a negative way. Many of the descriptions come off like stage directions and are often irrelevant and insignificant. And it seems he has some strange fetish with oxymoron. Anyways, going in to each of these books I expected to enjoy them, I know that Faulkner is a major figure in American literature, and that his work couldn't be praised any more, but so far I have to say I don't see it, I'm still trying to keep an open mind, though.
So have any of you had similar experiences?