The most overrated book that you've ever read

[Anonymous No.20949041]

picrel
you can't change my mind

[Anonymous No.20949044]

>>20949041
Same and midwits won’t shut up about it

[Anonymous No.20949131]

>>20949041
The most overrated book can't be one that's so commonly reviled. What a boring opinion.

[Anonymous No.20949485]

>>20949131
>reviled
Which part of Narnia are you from? Literally everyone I know praises the shit out of this book and it's not even that good

>what a boring opinion
self tease

[Anonymous No.20949502]

great gatsby by far

[Anonymous No.20949511]

Meditations by Aurelius, it's a self help book full of literal common knowledge

[Anonymous No.20949948]

>>20949041
The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.20949985]

>>20949041
Hello Biden buddy

[Anonymous No.20950075]

>>20949502
I agree with this but also I'd like to mention "Heart of Darkness" I literally could not get through and the only reason it's popular is because of "Apocalypse Now"

[Anonymous No.20950841]

>>20949511
It's not a self-help book, it's le philosophical diary written by le emperor

[Anonymous No.20950853]

>>20950075
>Heart of Darkness
Leftist hate it because muh niggers.

[Anonymous No.20950861]

>>20949041
Crime and Punishment
The trial

[Anonymous No.20950879]

>>20949041
>>20950075
Both of these, although I admire Orwell and Conrad as writers.
The Art of War is a complete waste of time. The King in Yellow is straight-up false advertising (and the stories that aren't are shitty). To Kill a Mockingbird sucks ass. The Scarlet Letter is beyond bad. The French Lieutenants Woman is terrible. There's a lot.

[Anonymous No.20951112]

>>20950853
Oh I can understand that point of view, the racial slurs didn't bother me, the novella was just boring in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.20951139]

Dune. I couldn't finish it. So boring.

[Anonymous No.20951140]

>>20949041
The bible

[Anonymous No.20951388]

>>20949041
over quoted =/= overrated

[Anonymous No.20951404]

also thus spake zarathustra
it's the most overrated book, pure plagiarism hidden in retarded poetry by a hack who wanted to cash in on voluntary egoist without understanding why the values were dismantled and have 0 need to be reassembled, also that idiots overman is what he thought outcome of anarchy should be which shows he doesn't know jackshit about anarchy and didn't understand stirner which is why he couldn't be his overman unlike stirner who was a voluntary egoist

[Anonymous No.20952043]

>>20950075
Most people that watch Apocalypse Now dont even understand the Heart of Darkness angle unless they watch an analysis afterwards. They also dont get the obvious Odyssey angle without watching an analysis. No one reads Heart of Darkness anymore, because its not read in school anymore. 1984 actually makes sense because its become an actually meme, a reference to anything dystopian or authoritarian. I dont think most people that say "that is literally 1984" have even read the book, they just know its just so pervasive as a meme they have a general understanding, which is what makes it overrated.

[Anonymous No.20952963]

>>20949041
I never had to read this or Brave New World in school, I feel like I missed out (thought I did have to read Anthem and We by Zamyatin)

Most overrated book I've ever read is probably The Great Gatsby, though really since I read it as a shit eating kid it's probably worth another shot. Book I've read that I think /lit/ overrates the most is No Longer Human, it was very boring and not the depression-core classic I was promised

[Anonymous No.20952969]

>>20950879
>The King in Yellow is straight-up false advertising
it's alright, but i know a lot of people bought it after watching True Detective season 1 and were very disappointed

[Anonymous No.20952989]

it's literally just communist propaganda disguised as rightful anti-puritanism
and yes i know it's a play, i read it as a book though
that said i did like the change in perspectives between chapters, there should be actual books that do that

[Anonymous No.20953040]

I've enjoyed 1984 more than other "meme books" I see getting posted on this forum. Reading it was fun as hell. Unlike Infinite Jest or Gravity's Rainbow, which read brutally boring. 1984 is funny because of the author's schizophrenia and terrified bewilderment. I have to read it again! There was a retard here who was scanning books and turning them into epubs and this turned me on, so I was thinking of reading it again. I think I'll give it another shot.

[Anonymous No.20953075]

>>20952963
dead the great gatsby is boring and stupid as fuck i have no clue why it’s so highly regarded. i’m gonna go look at the plot on wikipedia right now to remember what the fuck even happens other than the rich incel invites a girl to his party

[Anonymous No.20953089]

>>20949041
read it in middle school and found it extremely uneventful. worst part is, I had to do a book report on it. preferred Call Of The Wild and The Time Machine much more.

[Anonymous No.20953134]

>>20950075
B- b- but I like TKAM, scarlet letter, and French Lieutenant’s Woman :’(. Don’t make me cry anon

[Anonymous No.20953222]

>>20953089
the prince album named after it is pretty good

[Anonymous No.20953238]

>>20953040
>Unlike Infinite Jest or Gravity's Rainbow, which read brutally boring
Weird, those where two of the funniest books I ever read

[Anonymous No.20953240]

>>20949041
Dosto is unmitigated trash, and this is the crowning turd

[Anonymous No.20953434]

>>20950879
Art of War is a quick read and it's cool when see the tactics described in other books you read about war. Also his point about consciously making "appointments" with conflict is obvious but a good reminder to be proactive in life. Most of it was sorta irrelevant to my life but it was a short book.

[Anonymous No.20953700]

>>20949041
1984 isn’t overrated as much as it is overstated. The book is fun as hell because of the the main character‘s paranoia and the worldbuilding. People just made it the ultimate oracle of their side of the political isle which gives it a bad rep.

[Anonymous No.20953716]

dead souls by gogol

[Anonymous No.20953790]

>>20949041
roadside picnic

[Anonymous No.20954297]

>>20953240
What don’t you like?

[Anonymous No.20954300]

YOUR WHOLE SOCIETY IS OVERRATED

[Anonymous No.20955638]

>>20949041
Wheres Wally

never made it to the second chapter.

[Anonymous No.20955928]

>>20954297
I'm so glad you asked! If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Dosto seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

[Anonymous No.20955963]

>>20949041
1984 is a great book and most people that rate it haven't read it anyways, judging about all they can recite from the novel being "omg le cameras spying on people!!"

[Anonymous No.20955971]

>>20950879
>King in Yellow

Bought it expecting to read about pre-Lovecraft cosmic horror, ended up reading about bohemian adventures in paris isntead

[Anonymous No.20956067]

>>20949041
really just paper recycling program run amok

[Anonymous No.20956489]

>>20949044
Brown fingers typed this

[Anonymous No.20956737]

>>20955928
None of these criticisms are substantial, they just seem to reiterate your own personal distate for Dosto's subject matter.

[Anonymous No.20956901]

>>20956737
>they just seem to reiterate your own personal distate for Dosto
Fitting since you asked me what I don't like about him! Also, Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway.

[Anonymous No.20956950]

>>20949041
>you can't change my mind
No surprise there.

[Anonymous No.20956953]

>>20953240
Based. But Notes from Underground runs it close.

[Anonymous No.20956957]

>>20956737
Dostoevsky believed humanity could be redeemed through suffering, starting with his own readers.

[Anonymous No.20956958]

>>20949041
I read this when I was about 10 during the height of its hype, and I hated it so much not only did I go through a period of hating Greek mythology for a few years, I ended up hating ethnically Greek people too by extension

[Anonymous No.20956963]

>>20949041
I read this when I was about 10 during the height of its hype, and I hated it so much not only did I go through a period of hating Greek mythology for a few years, I ended up hating ethnically Greek people too by extension

[Anonymous No.20957478]

>>20956963
Lmfao. Based. Fuck oliveniggers.

[Anonymous No.20957641]

>>20956963
OK, turkroach.

[Anonymous No.20957655]

>>20955928
lol, Nabokov would've loved this board