The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

While Hemingway's revolutionary narrative style is still evident today, I find his stories tedious and predictable.  There is a similar maudlin quality to the ones I read (before I couldn't take any more....)  Always the damaged hero disappointed in love in some way.  Weird combination of 20th c style with 19th c dramatic heroine plot structures.