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What are the most over rated books of all time?

Heathens!

Dune is amazing.

I was obsessed with it as a teenager and I've read it at least 15 times.

The film was a bit rubbish though, and the other books in the series are a bit dull.
 
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder was one of the most hyped books of the 90s. I finally got around to reading it in the 00s and I don't think it works - as a philosophical novel I mean. The main premise - eccentric old man meeting teenage girl in secret to hand over installments of his guide to philosophy - seemed a rather convoluted way to cover the subject for the lay reader. And it's hard not to be reminded of paedophile grooming cases. (Is Norwegian society relatively innocent in this regard?)
 
Okay, so i know i'm gonna take a lot of hate for this, but i depised Catcher in the Rye. I was only 12 when i read it, but the protagonist seemed like a jerk. He was either making bad desicions, getting beat up, or just screwing everything over constantly. I didn't get why everyone thought he was such a great character, honestly he seemed like a douche to me.

I might not have been old enough to understand the book or what was actually going on, so maybe that's why i hated it, but i'm just not up for reading it again. I've found that "classical literature" can really be boring, to me at least.
 
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The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Sorry but I tried to read them, and watch the movies, but I was that bored I fell asleep.
 
Surprised no-one has mention The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time yet. I didn't like it at all. The main character was annoying and the plot too implausible. I didn't even find it funny. The scene where Christopher goes onto the tube tracks and lashes out at a passenger who tries to pull him up made me feel sick.

Above all I am so annoyed with the way The Curious Incident gets cited as some kind of textbook on Asperger syndrome. Back in 2015 Mark Haddon himself spoke out against this practice, but by then it was probably too late.
Article from Telegraph

There are some similarities between Christopher in The Curious Incident and Jacob in House Rules by Jodi Picoult. In particular, I was struck by how both characters boasted about how logical they were compared to the NT people in their lives. And yet they both indulged (or rather, were allowed to indulge) in faddy eating habits and superstitions about colours which were anything but. I couldn't help but think that if they were to meet each other (unlikely, given the distance between Vermont and Swindon and Jacob's fear of flying) they wouldn't get on at all.
 
First thing that came to mind is Fifty Shades of Grey. What a load of crap.
Others I can think of:
Wuthering Heights - a bunch of nasty people living such nasty little lives that I couldn't bring myself to care about any of them. I actually dislike all of Emily Bronte's novels that I've bothered to read. Generally like Charlotte Bronte though, Jane Eyre was a childhood favourite.
Everything I have read by Charles Dickens, but especially A Christmas Carol, which actually managed to beat Of Mice and Men to the top spot of "most boring book I was forced to read in my English Literature GCSE class".
The Necronomicon.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
 
An old bestseller.

- "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Never mind the content. Just consider the atrocious and rambling writing style alone. Very difficult to read, and I always suspected that the book's translation into English wasn't the problem.

Though I still am amused that the Third Reich sued publisher (later Senator) Alan Cranston for the English translation of this work. Clearly the author never intended it for an audience outside the Fatherland. :rolleyes:
 
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Lady Chatterley's Lover. I just found the whole portrayal what was supposed to be the greatest love affair of all unconvincing. Plus there seemed to my Aspie-pedant mind several loose ends. Why did Connie marry Clifford in the first place when there seems to be so little affection between them - was there any before his war injury? How did Connie manage to avoid getting pregnant by her previous lovers? Why does Oliver Mellors's daughter (confusingly, also called Connie) make an appearance in chapter 6 but is never referred to afterwards in his conversations with Lady C about their future together?
 
The Butterfly Lion- Micheal Morpurgo.

I remember having to read it in school, and I just could not follow the plot line at all. Although it was several years ago now, if I remember correctly the book kept switching between different perspectives and sometimes I'd stop and wonder "Wait, who's telling the story right now?". I can't really remember what the entirety of the plot was because the story kept stopping to tell you about some random person's life and I'd wonder what that had to do with anything. Sometimes I'd go back and reread chapters to try and get a better grasp of what was going on, but I still didn't have a clue.

Also, what on Earth was that ending? So, the woman was dead? Does it skip ahead to the future? Did the boy hallucinate everything? Was she a ghost? Just...I'm confused. :confused: Also, he named the main character Micheal after himself. :rolleyes:

My English teacher kept going on about how amazing this book was but I could not follow the narrative at all. Clearly popular though as it has won some awards. I'm not a fan of Micheal Morpurgo's writings, since I don't enjoy his writing style.
 
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