Ah, Amos, I think that Herman Hesse wrote "Magister Ludi" (among others) and not Thomas Mann.

Porn. I've read some, found it boring in the extreme (same with porn websites -- all hair is perfect and nobody seems to be having fun).

All of Aristotle, except the "Poetics."

Sartre. Hegel. And all other authors who take themselves too seriously.

Danielle Steel and her ilk. Trees died for that!?