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From is this list of 10 books not to read:

9: Lord of the Rings ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½“ J R R Tolkien

The best I can say about this book is that it was a very useful tool at school for helping to choose your friends. Carrying a copy of TolkienÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s monstrous tome was the equivalent of a leperÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s bell: ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½˜Unclean! Unclean!ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™ I knew I would have nothing in common with anyone who had read it. Their taste in music, clothes, television, everything was predetermined by their devotion to Gandalf. Without a shadow of a doubt, in a few years, these people would be going to Peter Gabriel gigs and reading Dune.

3: War and Peace ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½“ Leo Tolstoy

Way, way too long.

2: The Iliad — Homer

The very idea that you are somehow culturally incomplete without knowledge of Homer is ridiculous. The Iliad is one of the most boring books ever written and itÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s not just a boring book, itÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s a boring epic poem; all repetitive battle scenes with a lot of reproaching and challenging and utterances escaping the barrier of oneÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s teeth and nostrils filling with dirt and helmet plumes nodding menacingly. ThereÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s a big fight between Achilles and Hector and thatÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s about it.