The topic this week is Top Ten Books Written Before I Was Born. That gives me a great selection of books as I can pick anything before 1967. I've narrowed this down to the classics that I did not enjoy. Now, some were read when I was in high school and perhaps my tastes were not as developed. I've tried a few of them a second time, generally in audio version for the reread and nothing changed. In fact, I probably hated Lord of the Flies even more. The first book I ever DNF'd was On the Road by Jack Kerouac and it was such a huge decision to stop reading it, but I was so annoyed at the lazy gad-about druggies that it pushed me to it.
On the Road (dnf)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (x2)
Wide Sargasso Sea
Little Women (I don't hate this one, but it always disappoints me that I don't like it more
read x2)
Lord of the Flies (x2)
The Pearl
The Hobbit (dnf)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (dnf)
The Scarlet Letter (picked up The Scarlet Pimpernell the first time - much better book!)
Wuthering Heights (although it was fun to put Heathcliff on trial in grade 12 English for being 'cold, cruel and calculating)
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