Books that everyone likes except you?

Harry Potter books. (So pleased I’m not alone in this.)
The Hobbit.
Kate Atkinson’s works.
Maeve Binchy - her comma splicing drives me nuts.

Wuthering bloody Heights. (Now hiding behind sofa.)

Captain Correlli’s Mandolin... I really struggled with this and confess I gave up. Yet it seemed to be everyone else’s favourite.

Terry Prachett, Philip Pullman and Dickens.
I’m a real bookworm and started “Middlemarch” as love that period (apart from Dickens)and have read her other works, but it didn’t hook me and I feel I have let myself down.
Will try it again.

Also Angela Carter, magic realism is not for me.

Add me to the list disliking
Richard Osman's books
Wuthering Heights
Harry Potter

also add
Dicken's (except Christmas Carol)
Any historical novel written by someone from a different era. This includes Hilary Mantell, Catherine Cookson
All chick lit

The Great Gatsby. Utter tripe.

JoJo Moyes' Me Before You and After You.

I didn’t like to say that I do not like Hilary Mantell ?

Couldn’t agree more about Lord of the Rings. I had to read it at school, because our English teacher was taught by Tolkien. It was a fairly recent book then. It bored me to tears, but I ploughed through it because I admired the teacher.

Although I read English at university, I’m not keen on long novels. I’d rather read poetry or Middle English. I make a stubborn point of not reading anything that wins the Booker Prize.

GrannyGravy13

I didn’t like to say that I do not like Hilary Mantell ?

She’s a pain ?

Also didn’t like the Richard Osman one, didn’t attempt the second.

And I must be the only woman who didn’t like the Lucinda Riley ‘Sisters’ books. Two friends raved about them, so I have read them, but found them overlong, all very similar, rich, privileged young women, all beautiful of course, and ending up with hunky husbands after lots of angst.

A single man, ‘Pa Salt’ adopting a bevy of little girls from all over the world, struck me as very creepy really.

Midnight's Children.

Greyduster

C.P. Snow’s “The New Men”. A cure for insomnia.

I had to read that for A level! Very grim,. I found his other books fine.

GagaJo

Ditto Ulysses Ladyleftfieldlover. Also War and Peace.

The trick to reading War and Peace is to miss out all the battle stuff!

I think you have to read certain books at certain times of your life. Any other time and they don’t work. I read The Lord of the Rings in my late teens: ditto Titus Groan, many Emile Zola’s, War and Peace, most of Dickens.. I wouldn’t have been able to read any of them a few years later. I read The Book Thief that the children at my daughters school loved and really struggled with it. And I never could finish The Shadow of the Wind. I was trying to read it on a train and a fellow traveller pointed out where he’d got to in the book before he gave up; he just advised me to give up. Which I did.

The Handmaidens Tale or anything else by Magaret Atwood.
Anything by Jane Austen but really enjoy TV adaptations of her books , it’s just her style of writing.
Love Harry Potter and Maeve Binchey
Enjoyed Hilary Mantels books on Cromwell except last one so many characters but listened to the adaptation on radio 4 and really enjoyed it

The DaVincy code, and then Angels and Demons, which was supposed to be even better.

Ian McEwan. Atonement bored me to tears.
As a teacher of A level English literature for many years I never quite found the courage to admit that I can't abide Jane Austin.

I felt exactly the same.
Am struggling through a Jane Austen novel for a book group. Yawn!

Wuthering Heights. Give me Anne Brontë any day.
Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light.

Oh dear! I enjoyed most of the books that other people disliked. But I agree with MissA about Da Vinci Code. Maybe it wasn't only me yelling at Langdon: It's a **ing anagram or wtte. I didn't bother with Angels and Demons.

Catch 22 - the only book I have given up on.

Yes (or rather a big fat no) to Catcher in the Rye, Captain Corelli, the Time Traveller’s Wife, Chocolat and Lucinda Riley and her Sisters books. And I’ve never got on with Victoria Hislop either.

I’m usually way out of synch with my reading group.

I think I'm less inclined to struggle on with a book, these days.