50 Famous ‘Literary Masterpieces’ That Actually Suck

30. Lord of the Flies. I wanted to gouge my eyes out it was just so boring. The author made it a point to be as vivid as humanly possible in literature, describing every scenario with the greatest amount of detail. It really drew away from the overall plot to me, plus the plot really only existed because of Jack. Not a good book.

31. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This was gonna be mine. It takes 3/4 of the book before anything even happens. I don’t even think you see more than a glimpse of Hyde until the end, it’s just the main character worrying about Jekyll’s health and other people telling the main character about how bad Hyde is and I wonder what his relationship to Dr. Jekyll could possibly be!

Maybe if you went into it not knowing anything about the plot it’d be more interesting, as a mystery or something, but with Jekyll and Hyde being cultural touchstones, it’s not interesting at all.