50 Famous ‘Literary Masterpieces’ That Actually Suck

34. Wuthering Heights with Heathcliffe, that little girl ghost, and all the whining about the moors. Seemed like a muddled laudanum dream. Hard to read, follow, and stay awake enduring.

35. Madame Bovary. Pages and pages describing every item on a table or in a room in excruciating detail do not make a good novel, nor does a protagonist that no sane or even remotely well-adjusted person could possibly identify with or like, who is also too dull and stupid to even be an interesting villain or anti-hero.

Flaubert can take “the sublime” and blow it out his ass.