The most annoying unreadable novels/plays I've ever read or tried to read:
1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2. The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
3. The Lord of the Rings (first book) - Tolkein
4. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
5. Silas Marner - George Elliot
6. Endgame - Samuel Beckett (pains me to have a great Irish writer on this list, but there you have it)
7. Magic Cottage - James Herbert
8. The Tommyknockers -Stephen King
ALSO but not only:
Everything else I've ever read by Tolkein
Henry James - pick a title!
Some Steinbeck, some Hemingway
Most of the stuff written by most of those English women in the 18th and 19th centuries: Brontes, Austen, Elliot, (Mary Shelley the notable exception)
Bookmarks