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I could not get through Lord of the Rings or Dune when I tried to read them as a teenager. But I recognized that these were good books that I needed to give another try. Read them again after college and loved them. (Got through all of the original Frank Herbert Dune books, I don't think any of Brian Herbert's follow ups had been written yet, I don't know that I would have read them anyway)
Most of the other books I couldn't finish as a child, I recognized as garbage (Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, for one), and have seen nothing to change my mind about them to give them another try.
That's odd; I'm almost the opposite. I definitely enjoyed lord of the rings more as a teenager, and struggle to really even appreciate them now. I still like the world, but the writing just seems off.