Books you are critical of

I tend to criticize the first few chapters of a book more than anything.  I thought the first chapter of HHGTTG was crap, put off reading it for a year, then finished the entire series in a week without bias.  I'm going through the same thing with Harry Potter.

Other books I loathe having finished, such as the Thrawn trilogy of Star Wars novels that were sitting on my shelf for so long.

I didn't like Catcher in the Rye, and hate Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.  Sorry everyone.