Did you mean that you personally didn't like it? Or that it was objectively bad or unworthy of acclaim?<p>Yes, there are people who think that Catcher in the Rye was "a load of rubbish", but that doesn't make it so. Having a sympathetic protagonist isn't a requirement for good art; neither is not being boring to you personally at the time you first encountered it.<p>It's possible that now, with greater knowledge of the sweep of literary history, that you'd recognize what's good (or even great) about it.<p>I'm cautiously sympathetic to you. I used to think that Joan Miró was intensely overrated, but that was before I got some more schooling in 20th century painting. Now I'm happy to see his work when I visit modern art museums.