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Most Overrated Books?

Posted on 04/12/2013 8:28:36 PM PDT by MNDude

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To: MNDude

Wuthering Heights.


21 posted on 04/12/2013 8:40:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ExGeeEye
Agree with you on "Catcher In The Rye," although it did inspire...


22 posted on 04/12/2013 8:41:13 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: MNDude

Anything written by Bill, H!, ManBearPig, Zer0, or anyone associated with the NYT.


23 posted on 04/12/2013 8:42:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Aside from the obvious (anything by a politician)

"An American Life" is pretty good.

24 posted on 04/12/2013 8:42:57 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ExGeeEye
Ulysses is positively unreadable. I have tried three times. I guess I am not sufficiently intellectual enough to 'get' it.
25 posted on 04/12/2013 8:43:33 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: MNDude

The Sun Also Rises. 200 pages of boring wealthy people eating, drinking, fornicating, and going to bull fights. I didn’t care for the writing style either.


26 posted on 04/12/2013 8:44:18 PM PDT by bethelgrad
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To: MNDude

SILAS MARNER.. I had to suffer through this piece of drek in High School. I despised this novel so bad I had to take the class over again and suffer through it twice!

I was already reading novels for adults from our local library. I liked Beau Geste, Beat To Quarters, Manila Galleon, THE GUN, Captain Blood and hundreds of other good novels that helped me keep my sanity at a rough period in my life.


27 posted on 04/12/2013 8:44:33 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed. The director and actors wept.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Outstanding reference!


28 posted on 04/12/2013 8:46:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MHGinTN

He obviously never read the Koran, not only is it a very boring book but makes no sense what so ever. So disjointed with no sequential pattern that I could discern ... seems to be a book of random thoughts and ideas that never seem to connect.


29 posted on 04/12/2013 8:47:17 PM PDT by doc1019 (There is absolutely no difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.)
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To: MNDude

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Anything from the Dune series after the first book.


30 posted on 04/12/2013 8:47:32 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: MNDude

the Life and Times of Comrade Barack Hussein Obama.


31 posted on 04/12/2013 8:48:24 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: MNDude

I’m currently waiting for the 14th and final “Wheel of Time” book to show up in paperback. There are 40 holds for it in the local library. Each book is at least 500 pages in hardcover. I’ve never really liked the series, but after spending so much time reading them I can’t justify quitting now.


32 posted on 04/12/2013 8:50:11 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Atlas Shrugged - The entire idea behind this book is that capitalist Atlases should shrug and let the socialists destroy civilization so that a new utopia can magically rise out of the ashes. Stupid.
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I recommend that you not read Life of Pi.


33 posted on 04/12/2013 8:51:41 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: MNDude

1. Take your pick of of the works of James Joyce. Most highly over-rated writer, IMO.

2. Catcher in the Rye. Another vastly over-rated writer.

3. I could come up with a rather long list of nonsensical scribblers and their works to put in this position, but I’d put Howard Zinn’s history book here as my first choice of the worst among the rest.


34 posted on 04/12/2013 8:51:49 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: MNDude

The only thing I’ve read by Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.


35 posted on 04/12/2013 8:52:03 PM PDT by untenured
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To: MNDude

Rule of thumb (you may quote me): If it’s popular, there is something wrong with it.


36 posted on 04/12/2013 8:53:43 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: NVDave

Gotta agree with you on Howard Zinn’s garbage.


37 posted on 04/12/2013 8:54:26 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: MNDude

Wish It, Want It, Do It - by Brian Griffin


38 posted on 04/12/2013 8:55:24 PM PDT by AndrewB (FUBO)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

"Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of s**t, I am never reading again."

39 posted on 04/12/2013 8:57:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It’s not too bad...


40 posted on 04/12/2013 8:57:45 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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