Catcher in the Rye

Anything Hobbit related, including the parody Bored of the Rings...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Satanic Verses but I think Rushdie's popularity got a big bump from the fatwah. He kind of got the dead musician popularity before he died. Dracula by Bram Stoker, so stilted, how did he become a sex symbol.

The Gormenghast Trilogy

I hated 'To Kill A Mocking Bird', 'Of Mice And Men' and 'Catcher In The Rye'.

Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Read it in high school and absolutely hated it which was disappointing because I’d loved everything else if his that I had read.

Harry Potter, started the first book 3 times before I gave up. Can barely watch the films. Having said that, we have the audio book by Stephen Fry in the car which is going well.
The Hobit. Could not get past the first 100 or whatever pages of history and lore.
The Hunger Games. The first book was a gift that I felt obliged to trudge through, then I had to finish the trilogy. What absolute drivel. How is it possible for a baker's son to be experimenting with icing when all around are starving!
Autobiographies, even by people I really like and admire, I just can't get into them.

As much as I hate to admit it, I am embarrassed to say it it was one Stephen Hawking's books about 25 years ago. I think it was called "A brief History of Time" or something like that. My biggest problem with the book was that it presented too many mathematical equations and math and numbers has never been my strong suit and so I really struggled with the book and did not appreciate as much as I might have, had I been better at math.

"On The Road" by Kerouac. I just thought it was a meandering mess. Now the character Bill Lee (Burroughs) in the book, was a much better writer.

Stephen Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" series....I couldn't get through the first book.

Also "Seize the Day" by Saul Bellow. I had to read that for an English class in college. After that semester, I threw that book in the garbage.

I don't recall boring books that I gave up on. Instead, I remember books I loved.

Those insipid "50 Shades" books. Terrible writing. I couldn't even.

Old Man and the Sea is 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Ever. I don't understand why it's a classic beyond the author, and frankly even that ethos isn't enough to salvage a zero-sum plot with one character whose most significant conversation is with his own hand.

For that matter, the Two Towers was unbearably dry (the geneological parts of Genesis in the Bible are more interesting)

Everything about the Twilight series as well as the 50 Shades series (which are bad Twilight fanfiction mixed with a dash of The Secretary and also manage to be complete and utter misinformation about BDSM culture and paradigms) is basically a waste of paper and ink.

And maybe I'm alone on this, but I think JK Rowling should have ended 'the Wizarding World of Harry Potter' with Deathly Hallows and then moved on to a new project instead of shoehorning unrelated chaff into the series like bad direct-to-video Disney sequels. I appreciate it's a business and selling to your market is the name of the game, but I also believe that there is a distinct lack of creators' recognition or acceptance of the difference between 'extending an idea' and 'beating a dead horse.'

I can't think of any that others loved and I hated. Some I think got greater acclaim because there wasn't as much competition. I still haven't finished suffering through War and Peace. Probably won't. But it does seem that I am the only person that was rather non-plussed with Deadpool.

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. People describe it as "magical" and "delightful". Bored the pants off me.

I once tried reading a Harry Potter book (The Prisoner of Azerbaijan, or wherever, as if it matters), just because everyone else was raving. Unbearably bad writing.
Oh, and "The God of Small Things".

Lord of the Flies terrible writing and ridiculous premise.

It's rare that I start a book and don't finish it, but I couldn't bring myself to keep reading Catcher in the Rye.

...I just like your style.. Honestly, I’d much rather ‘write’ than read. No book, yet. Reading puts me to sleep, I’m too deliberate a reader, it’s like a chore. So taking a chance on novel seems ten times as dangerous as wading 15 minutes into a movie that’s going nowhere

I’ve been doing audio books as of late, but most have been good … let me check.. OK, back, having just looked over my borrowing history - does it make sense that a book I stopped ‘listening to’ must have been so crappy that I can’t tell enough about it to condemn it..? I was reminded of some really good stuff, though books I’d likely never have boughten or checked out from a library.. But we’re talkin trash here