What won't you read? Well....

I often get asked what books I don't enjoy, what I don't like to read. There is a list. It isn't very long, but it exists.

I can't stand poorly written, badly edited writing. So that's Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer then. Although a friend did point out that if rubbish like that can get published, anything can!
I also refuse to have anything to do with Harry Potter. I like fantasy novels, there are some that I've thoroughly enjoyed. A lot of people avoid it as a genre. I just avoid anything with J.K Rowling listed as author.
Then we come to the biggies. The sacred canon authors I would quite happily have pulped. In alphabetical order. Jane Austen. The Brontes (yes, all of them) Charles Dickens (except Christmas Carol and Great Expectations, I like Miss Havisham), George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. These make up (with the exception of Austen) what I think of as the depressive Victorians. Reading anything by any of them makes me irritable and likely to bite the head off of anyone unlucky enough to be nearby. Austen's heroines drive me nuts. Dickens writes the same story over and over (poor little orphan, mean people, benevolent benefactor, success). Hardy hates women (they all die miserably, and suffer in life), the Brontes don't believe in happiness or joy (for women they're quite misogynistic as well), George Eliot depresses the hell out of me (read Silas Marner, there is no joy in the woman). I just can't read them.
I also would pulp Moby Dick. It's long, it's boring and to be honest it's quite pointless. The plot goes missing every now and then, none of the characters are likable, I'm still trying to find anyone who enjoyed it.
The Hobbit put me off ever attempting the Lord of the Rings. It's deadly dull and nothing much seems to happen. One of the few examples of supposedly excellent fantasy letting me down.
I'm trying to think if there are any others. There's only ever been a few books I've had to put down half way through and never picked up again. I seem to have blocked most of them from my memory, or they're already on this list. I try to be fair, I give books a chance. Some are heavy going yes, but I persevere. The list above are the exceptions. No thank you, not for me.