What books do you are overrated and did not live up to your expectations when you read them?
What books do you think are underrated and are worthy of more praise?
What books do you think are underrated and are worthy of more praise?
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Gone With the Wind
Any Jane Austin
The Red Badge of Courage
Heart of Darkness
Edgar Allen Poe's Works
Maya Angelou's poetry
Anne Sexton's poetry
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Lolita by Nabokov
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
underrated:
this is harder and i'm pinched for time. will have to think about and come back later.
Joyce Carol Oates's works
L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon trilogy
Frank Herbert's Dune
Thomas Hardy's novels
Nathaniel Hawthorne's novels
George Eliot's novels
Dostoevsky's works
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Goethe's works
Yes, I realize a lot of these are recognized classics but usually I only hear stuff like Shakespeare, Harry Potter books, and Jane Austin praised these days.
I totally agree with Chaucer!
Anything by Neil Gaiman. I've read: American Gods, Anansi Boys and Neverwhere; also Good Omens, which I didn't particularly like even though I like Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
Underrated:
Anything by Lucy Maud Montgomery that's not Anne of Green Gables
The Da Vinci Code is possibly the most overrated thing in the world.
Life of Pi.
Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The Other Boleyn Girl.
The End of Mr. Y.
Underrated:
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Stephen Sherrill.
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
There's probably loads more I could list, but my brain is mush today.
(of course, I know nothing about the stasis you were in when you read it and it could just be you didn't like it, which is totally fine. Happens to me all the time.)
Twilight
The Da Vinci Code / Angels & Demons
The Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris
The Anita Blake books by Laurell K. Hamilton
Anything by Anne Rice
Underrated:
The early Darkover books by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Dune
Watership Down
Under: Anything by Anthony Burgess that is not A Clockwork Orange, really.
Baking Cakes in Kigali, ditto (only even more badly written imo).
Under rated.
Urm... *g* Seems incredibly negative of me but right now I can;t think of anything. Most of the books I love are pretty well liked. Maybe The History of Love by Nicole Krauss which I adored for its complexity and language, but I rarely see it recc'd anywhere.
edited for itchy trigger finger.
Edited at 2009-08-03 06:16 pm (UTC)
Twilight
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Grapes of Wrath
Harry Potter
A Series of Unfortunate events
Underrated:
Dangerous Liaisons by Laclos
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Looking for Alaska
Almost anything YA lit that's not Harry Potter or Twilight, actually.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Anything written by Octavia Butler
I'm probably going to be murdered in my sleep for the Harry Potter thing, but I just don't get the obsessions. I mean, I don't think they're BAD (in fact, I would be -really- interested in reading something by JK Rowling that's not HP) but I just don't understand the hype that's come with them. I can think of YA books that are much better than the HP series and don't get nearly as much recognition.
Oh yeah, I forgot about underrated. I'm going with the YA series The Mysterious Benedict Society. Even though they're focused on the young readers, I found these books could be enjoyed by anybody. A lovely gem of a series!
Edited at 2009-08-03 06:37 pm (UTC)
Underrated: Sophie's World
I had to read it two semesters in a row plus when I had read it in High School. It took me until the third time to finally figure out what the hell was going on.
I still didn't like it.