This wag, a TV writer and probably far more wealthy than I am, has a list of books not to bother with, as if he knows something about it. He says The Lord of the Rings isn’t worthy reading and makes for a good screen against unacceptable friends. He hates Joyce’s Ulysses too, so his list isn’t all bad.
I can understand, but not sympathize with, his distaste for The Lord of the Rings. But Pride and Prejudice? Anybody who claims to be literate and disses P&P should just donate his corneas to the blind and be done with it.