The most overrated books you've ever read - Page 2

**bowlinggreen** · October 4th, 2016, 07:42 AM

The Catcher in the Rye has to be on my top five list for overrated books.

triedandtested · October 4th, 2016, 08:51 AM

I do so agree with Mal Hombre about The Da Vinci Code. That's a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. I don't normally feel that - there's usually something worthwhile in every book - but The Da Vinci Code is the exception.

**Arturo2nd** · October 4th, 2016, 09:05 AM

My vote goes to the "Holy Bible."

**Sir Honkers** · October 4th, 2016, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by triedandtested

I do so agree with Mal Hombre about The Da Vinci Code. That's a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. I don't normally feel that - there's usually something worthwhile in every book - but The Da Vinci Code is the exception.

You think the Da Vinci Code is bad. There's a book, the title of which eludes me, but it's about the dirty deeds department of the Catholic Church killing a bunch of young boys who have been....wait for it....cloned from DNA lifted off the Shroud Of Turin.
I think I threw it so hard across the room it left a ding in the wall.

**KissArmy** · October 4th, 2016, 01:11 PM

Crime and Punishment. I had to read it in my high school English class. It's just dull. I think its reputation will slowly decline as the pseudo-intellectuals who worship Dead White Male writers slowly die off. I think the pretentious prick who assigned it to us kids back in school has.

**tygrkhat40** · October 4th, 2016, 02:09 PM

You'd think a book about extramarital relations would be somewhat exciting but The Scarlet Letter is so effing boring, you couldn't make a decent porno movie about it.

**AmateurEmale** · October 4th, 2016, 02:28 PM

I'm glad someone mentioned Moby Dick. Pop culture derives references such as "Ahab" and "Starbuck[s]" from this book; I think the coffee place sounds better than "Pequod's". But there is one fart joke you never heard of in that book:

Whoever denied it, supplied it!

**Navvet** · October 4th, 2016, 05:39 PM

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Navvet, I've read all of them and I agree with you about #1 and #3. Gatsby is a harder issue for me. Since it is short and well-written, I decided after high school to try reading it again. Over the next 20 or so years I must have reread it ten times. I had read everything else that Fitzgerald wrote; the short stories are really good, but the other novels are way too "precious" in the nasty sense. They are the "Oh, aren't we the cool generation" genre.

But I kept coming back to Gatsby. There was something there, but I couldn't find it. Then I read it without looking for "why" it was great, and it hit me like a brick wall--All those teachers were right! It really is the "Great American Novel" because we are a bunch of mediocre assholes, and that it what the book is about.

In the early-mid 1970s it seemed that the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald had a re-birth of popularity. It was topped off with a 1974 movie version of The Great Gatsby. I hadn't read it at that time, and I never bothered to see the movie. In fact, it wasn't until about two years ago that I finally read the book, just to see what everyone raved about. I tried to like it, but the feeling just wasn't there. For me, the story just seemed to "float" along. Perhaps if I, like you, reread it a number of times I might gain a better appreciation of it, but I'm afraid that I don't have the time nor the inclination. I'm glad you "got it" Charliels531, but I have the feeling that I never will.

**PJayBr** · October 4th, 2016, 05:52 PM

Moby Dick is a really hard read. I've got a quarter of the way through it in 10 years. Optimistically I've still got a bookmark in there!!!

I really struggled with Lord Of The Flies at school, but I sometimes think it wasbecause I had to study it rather than read it.

Worst of the lot though is The Quincunx by Charles Palliser. This was pushed at me as the "Great Victorian Novel" reborn and so I took a chance. Over a thousand pages later I found myself searching for an ending that never came and through it across the room in a rage.

Remember folks, I read it so you don't have to...........

Avoid Peter Ackroyd's hugely popular biography of Charles Dickens whilst you're at it, totally unreadable.

**Mal Hombre** · October 4th, 2016, 06:10 PM

I should point out that I have actually read Moby Dick-Several times..

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October 4th, 2016, 08:51 AM	#12
triedandtested Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 3 Thanks: 46 Thanked 51 Times in 3 Posts	I do so agree with Mal Hombre about The Da Vinci Code. That's a couple of hours of my life I'll never get back. I don't normally feel that - there's usually something worthwhile in every book - but The Da Vinci Code is the exception.

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Arturo2nd Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Oakland, California, United States. I have a beautful view of the BART tracks and I-980 Posts: 8,955 Thanks: 103,061 Thanked 151,470 Times in 8,946 Posts	My vote goes to the "Holy Bible."

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KissArmy Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 1,124 Thanks: 21,087 Thanked 12,361 Times in 1,105 Posts	Crime and Punishment. I had to read it in my high school English class. It's just dull. I think its reputation will slowly decline as the pseudo-intellectuals who worship Dead White Male writers slowly die off. I think the pretentious prick who assigned it to us kids back in school has.

October 4th, 2016, 02:28 PM	#17
AmateurEmale Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: The 513 Posts: 1,825 Thanks: 16,644 Thanked 15,794 Times in 1,755 Posts	I'm glad someone mentioned Moby Dick. Pop culture derives references such as "Ahab" and "Starbuck[s]" from this book; I think the coffee place sounds better than "Pequod's". But there is one fart joke you never heard of in that book: Whoever denied it, supplied it!

October 4th, 2016, 05:52 PM	#19
PJayBr Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: In front of my PC with my cock in my hand...... Posts: 1,309 Thanks: 41,569 Thanked 13,686 Times in 1,280 Posts	Moby Dick is a really hard read. I've got a quarter of the way through it in 10 years. Optimistically I've still got a bookmark in there!!! I really struggled with Lord Of The Flies at school, but I sometimes think it wasbecause I had to study it rather than read it. Worst of the lot though is The Quincunx by Charles Palliser. This was pushed at me as the "Great Victorian Novel" reborn and so I took a chance. Over a thousand pages later I found myself searching for an ending that never came and through it across the room in a rage. Remember folks, I read it so you don't have to........... Avoid Peter Ackroyd's hugely popular biography of Charles Dickens whilst you're at it, totally unreadable.