When book recommendations go wrong

When people read a fantastic book they are compelled to share it and impress it upon other people. Darragh McManus writes in the Guardian today about the situation where 'someone presses a book on you, assuring you that you'll simply adore it ... and you don't? Worse – you hate the thing, and can't understand how anyone would think of it and then think of you.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/aug/18/book-recommendations-go-wrong

I still can't bring myself to read Eat, Pray, Love despite numerous recommendations...