I wonder if this is true of Enders Game, I read it in the last two years and didn't rate it very highly. The stuff with the brother and sister is interesting especially looking back at when it is was written, the Ender storyline was just OK.
I also put down Anansie Boys after about 20 pages.

I read The Satanic Verses to see what all the fuss was about, good book.

<For Dana, SG and maybe Limey in my head all I can hear is the Dad from Goodness gracious Me saying "Leo Tollstoy, Indian!">

You may be right Beest. I bought the series it for my son to read about a year ago, and reread it myself. I kept wondering if it was a watered-down version or something as it didn't seem nearly as good as I remembered.

No, but I'm thinking of rereading Crime and Punishment. It's a great book.

:)

Any reading is good. I was the girl who never got into Wrinkles in Time, though highly recommended by friends.

Then again, I was highly entertained when reading The DaVinci Code.

I think for a lot of us it isn't so much the genre as it is the writing...so I might even take up some recommendations I've seen in this thread.

any book that other people recommend to me

I WAS ignoring Twilight, but after seeing the film, I decided they were too hilariously bad to leave alone any longer. I'm sure we used to hang people by the thumbs for writing this bad.

Now you're making me want to rewatch Space:1999!