What are the books everybody loved but you just didn't get?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. I first read Gone With the Wind when I was

about 12 years old, in 1960. I loved it. I saw the movie around that time.

I've reread that book several times over the years and always loved it.

Except not the most recent reread, perhaps five years ago. I suddenly saw the racism that was embedded in the book and was genuinely appalled. Okay, so back in 1937 or whenever, that racism was invisible, or benign, and I'm willing to cut a lot of slack for people back then, but now? No slack.
I'm not about to say "Don't read Gone With the Wind". Not at all. But just in case implicit racism isn't a problem,there's a lot of interesting stuff about the social norms and expectation of that time.

Perhaps more to the point, time is limited. Don't spend a minute on reading something you personally think is crap. It doesn't matter if the entire rest of the world thinks that piece is amazing and wonderful. If you don't like it, or it just doesn't work for you, that's all that's needed. Go on. Pick up another book. Read something else.

Love you.