So whats your type of book then howard, Enid Blyton?
Seriously it is all a matter of taste.
One thing that does wind me up is literatury (is that a real word?) snobbery. You get the Booker winners like Salman Rushdie writing boring old tosh no-one bothers to read but is bought and kept on the coffee table just for show.
There are some great books out there by some great writers that get no recognition, apart from outselling the likes of Rushdie 20:1.
Books by such authors as Bernard Cornwall, Wilbur Smith, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn and yes, even Dan Browne, are much better reads than any of these Bookers like Rushdie write.