A short list of authors and books that by all accounts I should have found wonderful, or at least interesting, but ended up with a feeling of — meh — at best and often genuine dislike

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Joseph Campbell
• Catch-22

That’s it! I tend not to abandon books half-way through, but I just couldn’t swallow these three.

Should I revisit? Emerson had some good quotes, apparently, and Campbell (seems to have) inspired many good stories although his own did not persuade me.

But Catch-22, dear oh dear. You could not pay me to start reading that piece of work again.