Don't read that shit! Are there books or genres that, when people let you know they're into, you recoil in horror?→[More:]

I'm trying to get over my knee-jerk reactions to others' reading lists; I used to bemoan the loss of so many adults to children's books like Harry Potter until I realized they're just after a good story, and hack though she may be, Rowling is a great storyteller (I'd say the same about Stephen King, whom I've loved since I was a kid).

But there's still stuff that just sticks in my craw, like Tom Clancy or bowdlerized Dumas (read the whole thing, dammit!) and there's even non-fiction that I try not to surround myself with, a lot of political memoirs, autobiographies of titans of industry, books about how to invest money (read books that tell you how money has been poorly invested first). Plus graphic novels (with notable exceptions); I mean, how much do you pay per minute of reading for a graphic novel? Especially when it's a graphic novelization of some worthwhile read; this just makes my skin crawl. And then there's stuff like Gibran's The Prophet, which is great on a first reading but when someone tells me they read it twice every year, I wonder, didn't it inspire you to read other things? Why stop there?

Of course, there are so many exceptions to any of the things I've pointed out here, and of course, I am always delighted to find out I'm wrong and that I have something very interesting to read, like the Potter stuff (though the movies still ruin much of it for me).

And above all I don't mean any offense when I tell you: Don't read that shit!

Please feel free to add your Don't Reads here, without worrying that someone's gonna come along and fly off the handle at you for dissing their favorite book. That's not what this thread's for.