Malgudi Days is a very popular children's book (probably a series) written by R. K. Narayan. Some stories from it are even part of the curriculum in many schools. In school days I used to think that I didn't like the stories maybe because we were later questioned on the stories with all the typical language subject questions that teachers ask: what did we learn from this, what did the author mean by this incidence, etc.
So recently I had picked up a second-hand copy of the book and was reading through it. Today I read probably the third or fourth story from the book and have decided to not read any more of it.
Each story I have read so far either has a sad ending or a neutral one at best. The world painted with the words does seem very enchanting. But frankly I don't have the spare energy to read more gray/sad endings. The author is very widely acclaimed, and that might be very well deserved. But the stories don't match my taste.
Now I just need to figure out how to modify my books pages to handle books that I drop midway.