My exposure in HS to many of the classics of English literature made me hate them for decades. Took me a long time to begin to appreciate Shakespeare. Fortunately a friend's mother, who was a librarian and who I loved and admired got me reading the Brontes.

But even with authors I love, I don't love all of their stuff. To me Jane Austen only wrote a couple of deathless books and the rest were variations on the theme, done lesserly.

I'm a "say it in the fewest words necessary" sort of gal so Dickens with his paid-by-the-word style annoys the hell out of me.