Oh yeah --- here's a triplet that left me kicking and screaming:
The Wreckage of Agathon
The World According to Garp
The Catcher in the Rye (and for that matter, anything and everything else by J. D. Salinger.
Franny and Zooey left a bitter taste of bile in my mouth, for instance. Leave me on a desert island with a choice of Salinger and say, Robert E. Howard --- I'll take Conan the Barbarian every time!
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