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I think that some people may have been put off the classics that were forced on them in youth by having to read unattractive books with small print and nasty layout. I turned down the chance of inheriting a leather-bound set of Dickens that was my father's, simply because it was absolutely unreadable. (Font size about Times new Roman 10; age-darkened paper and faded print.) Filial piety can only stretch so far.
However, give me a nice clean edition of Bleak House and I'll read it with pleasure. So HarryT has made me very happy.
Another issue may be that some older translations are very stilted and wooden.
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