Books that everyone likes except you?

‘Where the Crawdads Sing’. I started it twice but still couldn’t get into it.

Amazing to see so many books listed that I have loved, loathed, or been bored by!
to me, reading is so personal that I can't follow anyone ese's taste. Happy to have recommendations, but they don't always speak to me.
I rarely recommend books for the same reason.

I also found Heart Of Darkness hard going, I only finished it because it was the subject if an essay.

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Hobbit
I loved The Hobbit but I was quite young when I read it.

grumppa

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

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall.
I really dislike her style of writing.

I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes, recommended by SisterIL. Could not get into it at all.

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
I was told that the prose was beautiful but gave up after two chapters

winterwhite

The Lord of the Rings.

I got through half of the trilogy but the battle scenes were so boring .....

The Magus John Fowles. Utter pretentious tosh. Everyone else I knew, who read the book at the the same time as I, thought it was ahead of its time and deeply meaningful.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

GagaJo

Ditto Ulysses Ladyleftfieldlover. Also War and Peace.

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

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.

Midnight's Children.

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.

GrannyGravy13

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

She’s a pain ?

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.

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