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re: Books you think are most overrated?
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:20 pm to CottonWasKing
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:20 pm to CottonWasKing
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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.
The first four books were all pretty great. The story was mysterious and engaging. Then it got too wonky, particularly bogged down by the split personality Susan, alcohol gay priest, and King’s self-insertion. I did not mind the ending though.
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:21 pm to UFFan
I got about 200 pages into 20,000 Leagues before giving up. Such a chore.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:51 pm to biglego
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The first four books were all pretty great. The story was mysterious and engaging. Then it got too wonky, particularly bogged down by the split personality Susan, alcohol gay priest, and King’s self-insertion. I did not mind the ending though.
I thought the first three were good. Wizard and the Glass was absolutely excellent. Wolves of the Calla was fine. Everything from Songs of Susannah on were terrible imo.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 1:52 pm to CottonWasKing
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Wizard and the Glass was absolutely excellent. Wolves of the Calla was fine. Everything from Songs of Susannah on were terrible imo.
Yep. The focus on the journey and unraveling the mystery of the man in black and the gunslinger went sideways into vampires and whatnot, and Susan was tiresome. I didn’t mind how the story reset though. I was fine with it being a loop.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:50 pm to LordSnow
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Blood Meridian
I was about an hour into the audiobook and quit it. Not quite my tempo
Posted on 9/21/25 at 3:11 pm to UFFan
If we're talking "Most overrated", but not "worst", I'll go with...
LOTR. I don't think it's close to bad, but as far as Fantasy goes my personal feeling is that it's held up for it's impact moreso than how actually good it is. It's fine. It's been surpassed by many works IMO, but most of those were directly inspired by it for sure.
LOTR. I don't think it's close to bad, but as far as Fantasy goes my personal feeling is that it's held up for it's impact moreso than how actually good it is. It's fine. It's been surpassed by many works IMO, but most of those were directly inspired by it for sure.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 9:02 am to Lsudx256
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I know I will get downvoted for this but I really don’t understand the hoopla around Hemingway. I really enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea but most of the others I have read really don’t do it for me. The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Farewell to Arms all bored me. I really don’t like his dialogue and it feels contrived. Calling every person Darling and Chap constantly wears me out.
I am generally a Hemingway fan, but I think some people like the man so much that they overrate some of the work.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 9:33 am to Rand AlThor
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It's been surpassed by many works
Name one.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 9:54 am to Philzilla2k
The Stand is a giant turd.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 11:46 am to Dubosed
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The Stand is a giant turd.
M-O-O-N. That spells wrong.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 1:04 pm to biglego
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I was about an hour into the audiobook and quit it. Not quite my tempo
Love this book but I can't imagine this being one I'd want to listen to on audio.
Posted on 9/22/25 at 4:27 pm to Locoguan0
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Anything by Kate Chopin. Those were torture in college.
Oh, absolutely yes. The Awakening is such BS. The protagonist is presented as a heroine for committing suicide and leaving her kids without a mother. It's so sickening that this is considered an early feminist manifesto. I think I had to read it in the Louisiana literature class I took.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 7:31 am to GOP_Tiger
I'm a big fan of fantasy but only made it through the first 3 books of Wheel of Time. It's not terrible, but it dosent come close to the top fantasy series for me. I didn't find the characters all that interesting and couldnt STAND Nynaeve. Really enjoyed book 1 because it so closely resembled Fellowship, but books 2 and 3 were a slog.
This post was edited on 9/25/25 at 7:01 am
Posted on 9/24/25 at 11:14 am to cfish140
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I'm a big fan of fantasy but only made it through the first 3 books of Wheel of Time. It's not terrible, but it dosent come close to the top fantasy series for me. I didn't find the characters all that interesting and couldnt STAND Nynaeve. Really enjoyed book 1 because it so closely resembled The Hobbit, but books 2 and 3 were a slog.
Same, fantasy is by far my favorite genre. I read the first two and stopped because I just didn't care for it. Picked it back up to give it another try and finished book three but couldn't go anymore. Didn't have anything to do with the characters I just really disliked his writing style. That and the fact that supposedly there were much worse books ahead in the series I knew I wouldn't make it until the end if 1-3 weren't the worst.
It's kind of pegged by many as very Tolkien esque and the next best thing to LOTR but I couldn't have disagreed more.
I 100% see why people would like it though, I like the concept of the story and the characters, just really disliked his writing style.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:07 pm to UFFan
Storm light archives. Its so undeserving of all thr praise it gets
Posted on 9/24/25 at 12:23 pm to cfish140
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I'm a big fan of fantasy but only made it through the first 3 books of Wheel of Time.
I agree. I think I somehow made it through 4 books. I realized it probably wasn't for me when I couldn't recall the names of the books I had read or what happened in each particular book. I just never found the characters all that interesting
Posted on 9/24/25 at 8:27 pm to UFFan
East of Eden. The story is good but some of the narrative descriptions are so verbose and needless that they detract from the whole story.
Posted on 9/25/25 at 10:32 am to 4cubbies
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East of Eden. The story is good but some of the narrative descriptions are so verbose and needless that they detract from the whole story.
I know all of this is personal opinion and I'm not hating on you for this. But not only is East of Eden wild to me, but that particular reason for hate is even wilder.
The introduction to Cathy is for me the most brilliantly written description ever...
"There’s monsters born into the world. And just like there are monsters born without arms or other physical signs, there are mental or psychic monsters, born with malformed souls. Souls without compassion or a conscience. But whereas a physical monster can see where they are not normal, a spiritual monster has nothing to tell them they’re abnormal and so think people with a conscience, or kindness, are the ridiculous ones."
I honestly don't think writing can get any better than that. Given who that character is, their nature, and who they reveal themselves to be as a person, inside and out. Just brilliant stuff.
Posted on 9/25/25 at 3:19 pm to iwyLSUiwy
I’m thinking more about the descriptions of the farmland and other landscapes, not necessarily the characters.
Cathy really is a monster.
Cathy really is a monster.
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