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The Most Whackest Books

ValkyrieRaven88 said:
Hmm...I liked 6 of the books on your list! ^^ Didn't absolutely LOVE any of them except for Fahrenheit 451. How can you hate a book like that? It was so cool to watch someone discover literature for the first time, and Bradbury did an amazing job with it.
But anyway, I thought these were terribly overrated:
The Oddyssey by Homer
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Ah, but by the same token, how can you say that 'Pride & Prejudice' is overrated? You may not like it, but by any reasonable standard it is a timeless classic, both as social satire and as a study of human nature (which really doesn't change much!)

I'd include in my argument 1984 from the original poster's list too - not everyone's 'cup of tea', but surely not overrated?
 
overrated books?

I actually liked A Million Little Pieces by Frey. I don't care if it was partially true, or not - that argument was purely a commercial marketing one imo.

What I liked about it was:
- the writing style, you just felt the anger through the words but also how it was written
- it's rawness. Painful at times but I do believe that drugs get your mind to eventually want to self-destruct and he told it straight.

It should be a must read for teenagers as a deterrent.

Missy
 
I actually like a few of those books you mentioned (especially 1984), but I agree 100% with the Da Vinci Code being highly overrated. It was well-researched, and while some of the theories presented were interesting, the writing was completely amateur IMO.

I recently read John le Carre's The Constant Gardener and I thought it was just a big old bore. I don't know why anyone would read his books voluntarily, but he has millions of fans and every book he writes becomes an instant international bestseller. I would say the same thing about For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. Again, I don't get the appeal.

Last, 100 Years of Solitude. I know it's supposed to be a masterpiece and the whole book is meant to be a metaphor for the history of Columbia or whatever, but I just found the whole premise a bit strange, and really confusing. I kept getting all of the Joses and Aurelianos mixed up.

Just my 2 cents... and congratulations eyezonme for finally making a post that wasn't completely offensive. Gold star! [/sarcasm]
 
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