The last book I finished reading was an abridged copy of Don Quixote. It was going good until Dorothea became a pushover and took Fernando back; that killed the book for me.
Maybe the unabridged version makes it easier to swallow. *shrug*
The book I'm currently reading is The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor. Too many stories drag, though, and many of the endings are too abrupt.