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Classics That Disappointed - Page 2

Off and on over the years, I've read books considered classic. From my list of those I've read, these disappointed me or outright sucked. Too long/wordy. Racist/sexist in ways that no amount of context could save. Some provoked a "meh" reaction or bewildered me - what is your point? A few did all those things at the same time. I wonder who decides what is considered 'classic and why. Interested to see people voting reactions.
Mostly pre-1950 but some wobbling re time-frame
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein)
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennesee Williams)
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The Twits (Roald Dahl)
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Virgil--Aeneid
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
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The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
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I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
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Merchant of Venice (Oxford Shakespeare)
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MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
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The Witches (Roald Dahl)
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Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Philip José Farmer)
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