They are terribad.
I don't know what it is, but every time I see this word, I chuckle...So clever. I should adopt it into my vocabulary...
Anyway. I've never read Fitzgerald. I was one of the lucky ones. If I had taken AP English in my senior year, I would've had to, but alas, I never did finish the application for that, so I was stuck in regular english where we only had to read Beowulf, Macbeth, and a couple others...It was nice...Although now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I did try to start Gatsby one time back when I was a sophomore. It was sitting out on our kitchen counter for a couple weeks because my brother never put it away....I didn't particularly care for it.
As for Brooks. I tried reading Shannara when I was in 5th grade...Or maybe it was 6th. It didn't pull me in at all. I still haven't read it. I sometimes feel like I should, just to say that I have, and yet at the same time, I don't really want to.
For your 3 books. I haven't read Dune or Dark Elf. I need to read Dune....I loved Ender's Game, but...you might not. I know some people who really haven't liked it. But maybe you will. I mean, you resisted the urge to read Twilight and a good portion of the people I know who didn't like Ender's Game are huge fans of Twilight, so...yeah.