Ayn Rand. I put down The Fountainhead after I'd gotten about 2/3 of the way through because it was just too loaded with dogma and apparent nonsense as far as the relationships were concerned.

I'm not likely to reread Beckett's Waiting for Godot again any time soon, either. I was very young when I first read it, but something tells me that even with my postmodern leanings, that one is still gibberish.

I like the Hemingway I've read--The Sun Also Rises is a particularly fine book.

Some books are so dramatic or wrenching or striking that I won't reread them because I got the message so completely the first time through that once was enough. I thought that might be the case with Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, but on perspective of a few years, I think I'll go ahead and reread that one.

Mostly, the books I refuse to read because they're just too stupid for words are books by Danielle Steele and that ilk. Gag me with a spoon.

SRS