Overrated books

>>9124571
I'm sorry you don't have a sense of humor.

>>9124579
>>>/r/eddit

>>9124579
This post gave me cancer. I hope you have good liability insurance.

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I thought this was just awful.

>>9124632
YES! Thank you....

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This YA trash is only popular because people were forced to read it. It's one of the 5 books they have read, and happens to be the best of those 5, so they assume it's the greatest book ever written. It was written for children...

>>9124571
I dont think you could class this as overrated but I see absolutely zero reason why its such a liked book by teachers

It shouldnt be a part of any curriculum, ever, unless its an example of what not to do when writing about history or writing to kids/from a kids perspective

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>>9124685
Forgot pic

>>9124658
probably my least favorite to read during school. I enjoyed Milkweed, The Road, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, and Of Mice and Men. I was bored out of my mind when reading To Kill a Mockingbird

I think part of the problem with hitchhikers is expectations. People talk about it like it's some life changing transcendent, hilarious work when all it ever was or tried to be was sci fi parody written in the style of PG Wodehouse.

>>9124691
this
I like it for what it is, not its reputation.

>>9124658
It's fine for what it is. Plebs' opinion of it is irrelevant, letting them colour your opinion of a novel is pretty lame. Lots of good lit was written for children.

>>9124571
I'd say it's overrated, but it's still a neat book

>>9124658
TKAMB was absolute garbage. With all the good literature out there, it bothered me so much that my English teacher picked this as one of books we had to read at school.
He just seemed to pick books in which blacks are treated unfairly. We're in Ireland ffs. I'm not even sure black people exist.

>>9124571
Pretty decent book but Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is much better

>>9124571
the first in the series was fine, but after two it dropped off in quality pretty damn fast.

>>9124632
i agree. it was pretty boring - noir works better on film than in literature because noir is noir because of the visuals

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Brave New World

>>9124796
Public school is propaganda wherever you go

>>9124909
Never read it, what can you tell me about it you didnt like?

>>9124571
Harry Potter, Fifty Shades of Grey, My Struggle, Joy Luck Club, The God Delusion, Atlas Shrugged, and so on.
It pains me to remember more and relive the hate

>>9124571
Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Aristotle
Iliad
Odyssey

>>9124912
He's a shitposter.

>>9124691

A lot of people also tend to forget about the other four books.

Hitchhiker's Guide is just a small piece of the trilogy in five parts. The whole series is, in my opinion, best treated and approached as a single work. I would definitely say that it's an extremely significant and moving piece of literature when considered form that angle.

I have the series bound in one book, and I've read the thing cover-to-cover probably fifteen times by now. I always take away something new from it.

>>9124912
It's fairly well written and has a good plot
The reason people say they don't like it is because it's often overrated by people who haven't read it (ie normies/redditors)

>>9124932
The whole series is not best approached that way because he did not have 5 books in mind when he wrote the first one. The drop off in creativity from book to book is astounding

>>9124689
You know what I'm going to say, please don't make me say it.

>>9124658
This

>>9125167
THISSSSSS

>>9125176
>>9125177
l'upvotes

>>9124619

Pretty spicy considering Hitchhiker's Guide is basically the gold standard of redditcore novels.

>>9125187
Why is reddit a derogatory term; is it because most litfags are turtleneck wearing basement dwelling wine drinkers who have delusions of grandeur and don't want to associate with normal people? I think yes.

>>9124619
you got it mixed up dude.

any vonnegut, ender's game, and hitchhiker are the reddit meme trio.

>>9125193
Try to limit your posts to three words. You'd embarrass yourself less.

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Wtf am I missing besides
> you have to learn your own lessons

>>9125193
/plebbit/ is hated everywhere on 4chan

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>>9125181
>fire of my loins

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>>9125209
them's fighting words bwoi

>>9124571
I remember being angry when I finished this book. At least it was short.

>>9125236
litfags like being pretentiously angry when finishing any book, after downing a glass of wine in their turtleneck and calling everyone who doesn't agree with them a redditor. then walking upstairs to kiss mom on the cheek before bedtime.

Why are all the greats or lit core books depressing as fuck?

Someone recommend books that make you feel warm and full of hope.

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There is a reason why young Adolf wasn't able to get into art school.

>>9125266

You don't need to defend reddit dude. Reddit will be fine without you.

>>9125309
It was run by Jews?

>>9124658
Well, don't worry. It's being written out of the curriculum because it features a strong, intelligent white man defending a black man. In today's day and age, our schools only teach literature about strong black women who take care of themselves.

>>9125008

>The drop off in creativity from book to book is astounding

How so?

>>9125334
Exactly

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>>9124946
>It's fairly well written
>Huxley

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>>9124658
>It was written for children...

>>9125339
it is a very common sentiment I have heard time and time again, which I agree with. They just get worse and worse... it's terrifying and frustrating. Even the young reader who will inevitably appreciate this book most should be able to notice

>>9125285
"/lit/" is not one person.

The Hobbit, Don Quijote (maybe), the greeks, crime and punishment. Those are some book that gave me hope for humanity

>>9124571
it was a god damn radio program. it was never intended to be a book from the beginning. the radio program is very funny. that's it.

>>9124658
The only book i've dropped besides The Trial; but at least Kafka is an interesting character. Lee's prose triggered my autism so hard i literally dropped it when "Dill" is introduced. What's the moral i oughta get from the plot?

>>9125204
A great primer on the ascetic lifestyle, and as all great books do, Siddhartha, in many ways, gets you seeing life differently. Just to pick a few moments that I remember: the way his son treated him, the way he (Siddartha) had stood in front of his father before him years before, or his descension into a life of business and pleasure with that hottie, and how he climbed out of that...

With moments like these, and many more, that's all you got? Hell, I wouldn't even say Siddartha is in my top 30 books and I liked it.

>>9125630
That's a cute quote and all but a book can explicitly offer more service to a child than an adult and vice versa. There are childrens books that do their job better than adult books tho.

>>9125167

>Translation

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I know lit doesn't like this but I still need to say that it's trash.

>>9124571
I hate all books to be honest. They are all stupid and not worth anybody's time. They make covers like the one in OP's to appear as "WOAH!" like this is some kind of cultural changing masterpiece but honestly this speaks to every fucking piece of literature. Its all one big dick measuring contest.

>>9125331
...lol

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and that poetry comp by Harold Bloom

the bible

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>>9124571
I like it.

>>9124579
Nice meme

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Jesus, this was a chore.

>>9126234
Fuck. I don't like to hear that.

Did you enjoy The Secret History? I did and was rather looking forward to reading the Goldfinch soon.

>>9124690
That woman's writing style on To Klll a Mockingbird was just painful. I don't even know how to describe it accurately. I feel like the visual comparison is instead of seeing this beautiful nature scenery or something dark and grim, she just opts for those old films from the 20's that are all grainy and yellowed. Furthermore, it's set to like 0.25X speed.

I feel like the only reason it's 'popular' is because school districts push it because they can push anti-racism on you and okay creepy neighbors standing in your house looking at your 7 year old daughter.

What a horrible book.

>>9125204

That book was kind of odd to me. In some ways I liked how it was written, but it passively pissed me off reading it. The main character was just such a simple-minded idiot.

It wasn't even like he was a victim of circumstances in some tragedy like Turin or Kullervo.

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I'm sorry. It was just so boring.

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>>9125177

Full pleb. It's literally the birth of the novel.

Like it's fine if you didn't personally enjoy reading it that much, I get that, but to disregard its influence and relevance is pretty dumb

>>9125204

Nothing much. It's a minor work.

>>9124632
The Hawks movie based on it is p good though

>>9126247
I absolutely loved the Secret History. Which made the Goldfinch even more disappointing. Honestly, there's a good book in there if she had a harsher editor, but it's very, very purple and digressive.

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>>9125331
no, he just had no artistic talent. Look at this shit

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>>9126495
Jake & Dinos Chapman improved some of them

>>9124689
My history teacher in high school hated this book for how it insists on making you feel bad for the rich German kid, especially at the end, whilst hundreds of Jewish kids are being gassed in the end you're left worrying about the German kid

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Hated as a kid still hate it now

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>>9124571

>>9124690
You read the road in school?

>>9124906
It's not noir, it's hard boiled.

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I hurt myself with all the eye-rolling I did.

>>9125640
2 > 1 > 5 > 3 > 4

Tbh

>>9124689
this

>>9125630
That quote made me cringe. The point is that Young Adult novels can never offer as much as big boy books and the only people who say otherwise either write children's books, or read them exclusively.

>>9125668
Literally: don't be racist and be yourself

harry potter
i guess you had to be into it as a kid

>>9127089
You're the type of person who inadvertently reads a children's book and decides that because he liked it, it can't have been a children's book.

See Tom Sawyer, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson.

>>9124909
>soma is the blue-pill

>>9127106
those are all childrens books

>>9125640

Worse how?

>>9127209
That's exactly what he said senpai

>>9127216
Yes, and to pretend otherwise would be just that: pretending. Nobody is saying it can't be good, just that it can't be compared with something done just as well, but for adults.

When I read it, I quite liked the humor, but it got increasingly boring, and when I picked up the next book I couldn't read it. But that was when I was 11 or 12. I have no real perspective, but I'd say it's still an above average book. I probably couldn't read it today.
>>9126091
of course it's the one with the anime pic

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The protagonist was a pretentious prick
The romantic arc was unjustifiably cringe
The Mcguffin was unoriginal
The twist was stupid
The preface was nothing but an atheist austistically screeching
The ending was the most 90's Disney TV movie level bullcrap I've ever read in a best selling novel

>>9126841
People that roll their eyes at ancient works don't get it

>>9125309
the school looked for degenerate artists, not realists

>>9124690
Man, I remember Milkweed. I used to read Jerry Spinelli all the time when I was in middle school. It's a good young adult book.

>>9127089
>That quote made me cringe
This quote made me cringe

>>9124571
I can't comment on the book, but the radio drama it's based on is excellent. Though admittedly pop-culture's obsession with 42 is a nuisance.

The Man in the High Castle
The Great Gatsby

Blood Meridian.The selections of it that I read were rife with incomplete sentences and incorrect punctuation. I understand that it's a valid style, but it bothers me to no end.

>>9124796
>I'm not even sure black people exist.
Ireland == heaven?

>>9125309
He wanted to be an architect.

>>9127503
Not an argument.

>>9125668
that eveybody knows black people are angels and that you're white trash for not knowing that when everybody knows that
having read it is just a very important milestone in your socio-economic ascend

>>9126591
It doesn't; it shows Bruno's naive perception of events and explores that a bit.

>>9124571
The 1st is amazing. The rest are 999% worse. It's as if he had to write them for the money and only for the money.

>>9126601
Same. I cannot stand the way how it's written. Really off-putting

>>9127266
It has nothing to do with the 1st book. The 2nd and all other books are simply utter shit. I read them back-to-back in the same week or two and I could clearly see he wrote the rest after the next for the money only, or a contract.

>>9124571
the metamorphosis

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>>9124571
First law by Abercrombie. Fuck that shit! I was hanging at that time on Game of thrones books forums and everybody was "if you like ASOIAF you will love First law." Well, it only made me realize that I fucking abhor ASOIAF. It so hard trying to be the anti-Lotr grim dark fantasy that it ends up as the worst Lotr imitation, except noble and good is twisted into edgy and perversion. There is nothing "grim dark" only grime derp.

>>9125167
Plebeyo, hideputa bellaco de calaña turca!

>>9125643
>>9127557

I don't know. Nightvale started as a radio program and their book turned out better than Hitchhiker's did, at least in my opinion. They at least tried to transition their ideas to the other medium better

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>>9124906
>boring

kys my man

but before you do, go read some Hammett to discover how wrong you are. Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon are anything but boring.

you're probably the low attention span retard that needs cheap tricks to keep up "tension" like characters constantly running around yelling "THERE'S NO TIME TO EXPLAIN FOLLOW ME!!" or every chapter ending with "little did they know what was waiting for them just around the corner"

>>9126823
Yeah, we did too. All the teachers I know avoid the book as much as they can, but my teacher CHOSE to teach it.

>>9128438
game of thrones is fucking pleb garbage and you know it. no wonder you didnt like the patrician writing of joe abercrombie

>>9125167
>>9125177
Fucking plebs.
>>9126301
FUCKING PLEB.

>>9128630
This is bait.

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"lol its the 80s" sense of humor has not aged

>>9126810
Get the fuck out

>>9127271
> pretentious narrator
> autistic atheist screeching
No wonder Reddit loves it so much

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>>9128916

>unironically likes Tolkien

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>>9128650
Hitler AND ELVIS LOLOLOLOL

>>9128650
>poor reading comprehension.jpg

Kys

>>9129157
>unironically hates Tolkien
Hitchcuck detected

>>9127271
>the climax of this novel is all the heroes and all the villains getting into japanese mech suits and fighting eachother
yikes

>>9129157
name of this girl?

>>9127271

>book set in videogame world
>its bad

you didnt see that coming?

>>9126810
whoa, those covers are sick

books don't have to be literature

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>>9125187
you know what else redditors do? Breathe.
I suppose you're going to stop any minute now, eh?

>>9126810
Go be a faggot somewhere else

>>9129335
but he's just another stick in the bundle here

>>9129157
Who is that? I've seen her before but I don't remember where

>>9129385
margaret thatcher

>>9129254
Mai waifu

Any book with non-existant pacing. Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind.

>>9129385
Main character in Jonathan Frozen's newest novel

>>9129429
Edgy existantialist.

>>9129385
New Star Wars movie

>>9126841
>Rolling your eyes at ancient epics

Damn, you're a cuck. I bet you think Karna is the best character too despite him being unable to overcome fate because of how "tragic" he is.

>>9124571
I'm reading The Wind Up Girl right now and it's absolute shit. The writing makes me think of Christopher Paolini.

To Kill a Mockingbird was BORING. Definitely the most overrated book of all time.

The House on Mango Street.

>>9126041
Worst book I've ever read.

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Worst book I've ever read, but oddly enough The Grapes of Wrath is my fave

>>9130401
Read it last night for a break between Anna Karenina... I thought it was pretty good. Interesting reading Steinbeck in a setting so different from his other works.

I was a gullible high-schooler and got fucking memed into thinking Stephen King is worth a shit.

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>>9126234
>>9126247
>>9126492
My sister recently read goldfinch and said more or less the same thing about it. She really enjoyed it overall but said there was a lot of unnecessary filler and it could have been much shorter

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>This is actually considered one of the greatest plays ever made

Jaysus Christ, it's just so boring and drawn out, I couldn't give two shits about angsty Hamlet or any of the characters.

>>9130341
Fuck this book. It is mediocre at best yet too many people act like it's a masterpiece.

If a girl lists one or more of
- Siddhartha
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Kite Runner
as her favorite books, it's a 100% guarantee that she hasn't read a word since high school. If, on the other hand, she mentions Harry Potter, it's a 100% guarantee she hasn't read a word since middle school.

>>9124658
I enjoyed it because Scout's "childish" worldview was juxtaposed to the serious concepts of justice, racism and family that were portrayed with such a reverent tone.

It tugs at your heart strings and plays to your emotions and I enjoyed it as a read just for those reasons. It sure got to me as a kid, so the use of pathos intensifies with the nostalgia during a re-read.

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>>9124571
It did make me say "why the fuck do people like this?" Not saying it because I "did not get it", because I was not familiar with that historical moment and maybe I was missing some background (I'm not American). I should give it a 2nd chance maybe.

But I was really, really dissapointed.

>>9131256
*Not saying it's not because "I did not get it".

>>9124571
I was really surprised at how meandering the HGTTG novels were, having watched the TV miniseries some years prior.
The one thing that sets it apart for me from a lot of sci-fi is how cavalier of an attitude everybody has towards the future tech. Even Arthur gets used to it pretty quickly. The author never crams technical jargon or statistics down your throat unless it's in the context of making a joke.

The DaVinci Code.

A mediocre chase padded out with clumsily wedged bites of historical asides.

>>9126810
>Not enjoying a walking simulator that triggers Kevin Smith
Get it? Because he's fat.

>>9124932
>trilogy in five parts

>>9127271
This book was a fucking abyssmal waste of a good setting. I thought it was clever for making us dislike the main character until it turned out the author thought his arrogant hyperliberal was a justifiable Mary Sue. It's shit that relies entirely on nostalgia and wish fulfillment with 0 depth.

>>9131218
I'm sorry about your shit taste

fucking Coelho

>>9132897
Fuck off William

>>9124571
Finnish radio theatre made an excellent version of it.

>>9131256
it's an extremely american book

to contextualize some of the blowback: it's often required reading in high school

>>9124574
This.
Or more accurately, I'm sorry you don't have a more developed sense of humor.

>>9124690
where did you go to high school i had to read all the same books

>>9126810
t. Harry Potter fangirl

i hated zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance most overrated pretentious book of all time

>>9128061
>can't into mccarthy
blood meridian is a fucking wankfest but if you're critiquing mccarthy's style and not complaining joyce or shit too then why are you even on this board

>>9128650
now THAT is some fucking trash
>>9130401
it's just OK imo but i read it in middle school
>>9131218
shitpost harder
>>9131256
fitzgerald is pretty good tho
see: tender is the night

>>9127271
pleb

>>9126301
>Birth of the Novel
What is the Golden Ass?

>>9125193
My apartment is below ground level, everything else describes me better than that, and I loved the first two HGG books.

>>9128318
>>9126601
plebs got filtered by the #1 pleb filter.

>>9125334
except that none of the books I read in school actually fir that category and I was there fairly recently. but keep u the butthurt.

>>9136970
>fairly recently
Just say you're in high school, nobody is judging

>>9131229
I just finished reading it and there were parts I liked but I'm definitely left wondering what all the hype is about. Kvothe isn't very likeable, Denna isn't likeable, the magic system is cool but it's barely discussed.

>>9124571
>Books that made you say:
>"Why the fuck do people like this?"

I honestly thought Lolita was shit, nice prose but so boring

>>9138413
You don't need to quote the OP's exact words, we all read it.

>>9127576
What didn't you like about those anon? I really enjoyed both of them (especially High Castle, though maybe that's because I read it more recently)

>>9130341
Oh good, I'm not alone. The prose was kinda nice sometimes, but holy shit fuck every character in this series, especially the mary sue MC

>>9124909
If anything it's 1984, BNW impacted my views on hedonism and religion, 1984 taught me nothing new (and was more badly written, which considering the mediocre prose of BNW says a lot)

>>9126301
And cave drawings were the birth of art, doesn't make'em good

>>9127271
how on earth did you even manage to finish that shit? Couldn't get past two pages of that smug pointless reference-fest

>>9127576
oh you can shut right up. Philip K Dick and Fitzgerald may not be the best that's out there but they're still better than 95% of all the published crap

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Anything by John Green

>>9130341
Yes, it's one of the few things this board actually has consensus on. Overrated fantasy garbage written by a smug prick

>>9124919
Oh yeah well where should we start then?

>>9124571
I thought it was pretty funny. I read the first two when i was 16, and it got me into reading. Though now i have zero interest in reading the rest of the series, because i´ll surely be dissapointed.

>>9134799
Fitzgerald was a hack who stole other people's novels. Get good.

>>9124571
Anything by Kafka tbqh

>>9132668
>thinking you're being clever when really you're just ill informed

>>9127240
why tho - give a rationale

>>9128061
>conventions

>>9124571
Its OK, granted I just listened to a audio book version of it online and just listen to it in the background while I do meaningless stuff

>>9124632
This book was awesome. Your attention span is fucked.

>>9138699
I am fine with this. That means more Kafka for me.