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re: Books you think are most overrated?
Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:17 am to bayoumuscle21
Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:17 am to bayoumuscle21
I like science fiction. I’ve read two books that are highly respected in the genre that I just did not like at all in the last year:
Foundation by Asimov
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Foundation by Asimov
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:52 pm to Gerry Laval
novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap, at least that's what I heard
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:26 am to UFFan
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And Scout is so unfeminine almost bordering on transgender, even down to her masculine sounding name.
Scout is 6 at the start and 9 at the end of To Kill a Mocking Bird story, and is the narrator. Scout is not her name...Jean Louise Finch is her name. She was 2 when her mother died...so, if anything, the story demonstrates the importance of a feminine presence in the household.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:23 pm to UFFan
V by Thomas Pynchon.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 11:08 pm to UFFan
The Catcher in the Rye. I kept hearing how brilliant it was, and when I finished it, I was thoroughly unimpressed.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 11:16 pm to ecb
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Ayn Rand
Rand’s problem is that she needed an editor that would tell her No. She could write riveting scenes. But she followed them with a fifty page lecture on some objectivist dogma point she wanted to nail into you. You could've cut 400 pages from Atlas Shrugged and not missed any important plot points.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 11:22 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Steinbeck is arguably the greatest fiction writer of all time. 3/4 of those are just all time classics.
Steinbeck isn't even the greatest American writer. Let alone “of all time”.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 9:38 am to DesScorp
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Steinbeck isn't even the greatest American writer. Let alone “of all time”.
Pretty much impossible to say who is given how much it's based on individual preference, but an argument can be made that he is the greatest American writer. Right there with Twain, Hemingway Faulker, Poe, Melville, etc.
Posted on 6/24/25 at 7:59 am to iwyLSUiwy
I prefer Fitzgerald
Posted on 6/24/25 at 2:47 pm to UFFan
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Posted on 6/24/25 at 7:14 pm to LSUballs
Haven't seen them mentioned yet, but...
Harry Potter
Good books, good story, but not a classic in my opinion. Rowling definitely creates plot holes and made shite decisions towards the end
Harry Potter
Good books, good story, but not a classic in my opinion. Rowling definitely creates plot holes and made shite decisions towards the end
Posted on 6/25/25 at 10:19 am to Gerry Laval
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I like science fiction. I’ve read two books that are highly respected in the genre that I just did not like at all in the last year:
Foundation by Asimov
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I enjoyed Foundation ok but I can easily see thinking it's overrated. I personally enjoy Caves of Steel/The Naked Sun/Robots of Dawn series quite a bit better. Though I do think you have to read past the original Foundation trilogy to get the full effect, they do get better. But I think the R Daneel and Elijah Bailey detective stuff in the Robot series holds up a lot better than Foundation.
Haven't pulled the trigger on Hyperion. Mrs. Iwy really liked them.
What are some of your favorites?
Posted on 6/25/25 at 1:50 pm to LSUballs
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms was a hard slog for me. Im still going to read Bell simply because I have a huge fascination with the Spanish Civil War, and some of the scenes are directly based on Hemingway’s own observations and experiences.
Posted on 6/25/25 at 2:26 pm to UFFan
Ulysses by James Joyce.
Some people think it is the greatest book written in the English language. I once had a teacher who was so inspired by it that he cited it as the reason he became a professor of literature.
I found it unreadable.
Some people think it is the greatest book written in the English language. I once had a teacher who was so inspired by it that he cited it as the reason he became a professor of literature.
I found it unreadable.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 8:14 pm to UFFan
Roberto Bolano's 2666. Some critics have named it the best novel of the 21st century. I thought it was barely readable, pretentious, impenetrable Latin American fatalistic tripe. In general, I enjoy literary fiction, even fairly abstruse works, but words cannot convey how little regard I had for Bolano's supposed masterpiece. His other translated work, The Savage Detectives, was almost as insipid.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 10:33 pm to UFFan
My wife is saying House of Leaves.
“It’s rated 4.9. No way it should be that high”
I have not read. So cannot confirm. But 4.9 is a high rating
“It’s rated 4.9. No way it should be that high”
I have not read. So cannot confirm. But 4.9 is a high rating
Posted on 9/19/25 at 3:40 pm to lsugorilla
I got 2 from Audible that where well recommended I could not finish.
Pestilence
The Fifth Season
Pestilence
The Fifth Season
Posted on 9/19/25 at 6:53 pm to boxcarbarney
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The few Stephen King books that I've read. While it had some high points, the Dark Tower series really shite the bed at the end.
I love Stephen King. You’re going to find more of his books on my bookshelves than any other author. When I can’t decide on anything new to read I typically reach for Stephen King and re-read another book once again.
That being said The Dark Tower started out as “just good” through the first three books, approached greatness with the 4th then was a sharp plummet from there.
This post was edited on 9/19/25 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 9/19/25 at 7:41 pm to Paperbackwriter
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Catcher in the Rye
It's such a phony.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:15 pm to Lakeboy7
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I’ve read dozens of clunkers. Most recently a book and author hyped by my son who I trust for book recommendations: Mistborn
Your son has better taste than you
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