I have been trying to get through Pride and Prejudice. And I just can’t. I give up. I want to, but I can’t.
Captain Underpants - I think I loved it as much as my son. When we were getting rid of a lot of old books, Captain Underpants got to stay.
I adore Captain Underpants. And Jane Eyre. And Ulysses. And any and all Jane Austen. And the Hardy novels I’ve read (not many). And anything by Paul Auster, who is my major celebrity crush.
You guys are making me cry.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Had trouble finishing it. >>>>>>>
I didn’t finish it.
@Pizzagirl, I read Emma and Sense and Sensibility after seeing the movies and like them well enough, but I also gave up on Pride and Prejudice half way through. I love the story, but am willing to settle for the various movie versions to know it. It just seemed that I was treading water reading it and since I already knew how it worked out, I just quit half way through years ago and went on to something else. I’m a little ashamed to admit that.
Sula
My heart broke a little a few pages back when @NJTheatreMOM named The Prince of Tides as a hated book. It is one of my top five ever. Like one of the books I would take on a desert island if I could only have a few. Maybe that should be a new thread for us.
The best thing about Pride and Prejudice is the scene where Darcy proposes and Elizabeth tells him where to stick it. I love love love that scene. If you read that and nothing else, it’s worth your while.
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.
Reread Little Bee today and was reminded of why so many of you hated it.
THAT’S where you choose to take a traumatized girl and your four year old son?! REALLY?
Sheesh.
@Nrdsb4, I thought you ever going to link to a picture of Jonny Lee Miller, who also made a very fine Mr. Knightly in the 2009 Emma. 
Children’s Books
- Berenstain Bears - agree with those who hated them. My daughters loved them, but I always found them kind of weird in a way that I could never quite put my finger on.
- Dr. Seuss - His stuff was very clever and all, but I found them to be very tedious to read aloud to little kids.
For some reason I’m having a hard time coming up with a list, except for Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Da Vinci Code. In the last 10 years I’ve stopped forcing myself to read a book I don’t like all the way through. If I don’t read the whole thing, I can say I hated it, but I can’t really say I’ve read it.
I agree with others on Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged. Not only do I not like the books, I typically don’t like the people who say she’s a favorite of theirs. 
I reread Pride and Prejudice several times a year. It’s my “go to” book for sleeping. I can’t read a book I’m reading for the first time just before bed because I’ll end up staying up to finish it–well, unless it’s a book of short stories, in which case I just finish the story. Sometimes, I’ll reread parts of a book I just finished. Often, though, I’ll read a book I like and have read a gazillion times. P & P is in that category. It won’t keep me up because I know how it ends. :)! I agree that the best part of the whole book is Darcy’s first proposal and Lizzie’s rejection of it.
I didn’t like P &P when I was young…the fact it’s so funny sailed right over my head. Mr. Collins has to be one of the funniest characters ever created. I like all of Jane Austen…
Speaking of dreadful books, I recently found out that a girl in my high school graduating class (from a small rural school in Oregon - many decades ago) is now a well-published author (under a pseudonym) of steamy romance novels. She lives in Italy now.
@Scipio Is she living with an italian Don who can “quench her raging desires”?
with Fabio?
I never liked Dr Seuss either, Scipio.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Baum.