I don't know. I enjoy literary canon, lol. Granted, I can't read Hemingway and most of naturalistic stuff (and Kafka makes me want to strangle someone), but most of what I read I love. I mean...you can always choose what you want to read, don't you? Doesn't change the fact that you should know something about all the classics, but you don't have to read them all.

I don't like Austen too. Don't like Brönte though, but I love Dickens.