Posted on 04/12/2013 8:28:36 PM PDT by MNDude
There are hundreds of books that are considered classics and probably even more over-hyped ones on bestsellers lists. Which do you think are the three most overrated books?
Wuthering Heights.
Anything written by Bill, H!, ManBearPig, Zer0, or anyone associated with the NYT.
"An American Life" is pretty good.
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.
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.
Outstanding reference!
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.
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Anything from the Dune series after the first book.
the Life and Times of Comrade Barack Hussein Obama.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing I’ve read by Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse.
Rule of thumb (you may quote me): If it’s popular, there is something wrong with it.
Gotta agree with you on Howard Zinn’s garbage.
Wish It, Want It, Do It - by Brian Griffin
"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."
It’s not too bad...
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