Most over rated book

[zĒa£]

I think that the LOTR is over rated. THe book and the movies were all good but the book sometimes got VERY boring. Also the overal length and small text size (paper back) was annoying.

[.::.stefany.::.]

i guess..at one point the harry potter series. dont get me wrong, i enjoy them and everything, and i'm fine with the movies. but now every bookstore i go to , i see harry potter merchandise [notebooks, pencils, posters, postcards, folders....] i like the series just fine, but i dont think it's that great enough to put out a line of merchandise ten miles long.

[iamhated2007]

the thing alot of people(especially you younger people) dont realize that lotr is very old. the reason the book is heralded so much is that it can still hold up in comparison to newer fantasy novels. its like ffvii, it set a standard that is still being followed tot his day. some poepl like it some dont, it may not be the best ever but it definetely is one of the greatest.

[BeatExeter710]

I HATE LOTR! It was so drawn out. He described each leaf in that damn forest...

"And the 29th leaf was different from the others. It has five veins on the underside, unlike the three. Don't get me started on the 30th..."

Hah I kid of course but I thot it was funny.

I'm also perhaps the only person on Earth who hasn't read Harry Potter. I read the first book... I hated it cuz I was young. And now I won't go back to it. But wait! I found this somewhere... what if you replace the word "wand" with "wang" in the book? Find out urself.

[wrath]

Harry Potter!!!!

[lurker]

The Grapes of Wrath (or any book of Steinbeck). He only won a Nobel prize because he can use rhetorical devices about social conditions. It's not even entertaining, just painful to read.

[iamhated2007]

to kill a mockingbird. its just so ****ing hard to read, and its boring too.

[KazeDaBlackWind]

Heh, and being hard to read is the same as over-rated to you people? Try catching up to your expected reading level before you post again.
The Harry Potter series and The DaVinci Code are over-rated, although I read through them both. I'll never get that time back, sigh.

[gillianvalkyrie]

Either the bible or the koran.

Mainly because those who thump it don't get it, and they make the lives of everyone else around them miserable, now and a thousand generations from now, assuming we did not blow ourselves up by then.

[MaisalG]

i guess..at one point the harry potter series. dont get me wrong, i enjoy them and everything, and i'm fine with the movies. but now every bookstore i go to , i see harry potter merchandise [notebooks, pencils, posters, postcards, folders....] i like the series just fine, but i dont think it's that great enough to put out a line of merchandise ten miles long.

I can't really say what is overrated. I knew Harry Potter would get in. I see the point in it, though I partially disagree. I love the Harry Potter books and the movies as well. Harry Potter is like Inuyasha...you like it, you hate it.

But as for the merchandise, lol. There are some HUGE Harry Potter fans out there(ie. my sister) who want all that extra merchandise. That's why it's there. They'll make money with it. eh heh. I think that extra stuff is more for money than anything else...they using the huge fans to get it. Let me tell you....all that stuff REALLY gets to the fans like that. *snap*

[Lord_Burn]

I would have to say "The Importance of Being Erenst." Three pages of the two main characters arguing over eating curmpts.:angry:
God that was auful.
So was "The Great Gadspy." they both have the same arogant, Sinfield-but-not-interesting, chit-chat.

Greatest American Authors my *ss

[Alucart]

LOTR has to be the most overrated series, the thing was it was soo innovated noone was writing about goblins and orcs and elves before Tolkien
Also he did kinda invented a whole new language still in use by some err "geeks" the Elvish tongue... then again harry turtledove made his own language in his SEries Darkness(GOOD series ALOT better then LOtR)

as for the most overrated BOOK i would say but most will disagree
the BIBLE, a collection of stories that may or maynot ALL have happened that can revolutionize the world? now doesnt that seem a little over rated?

DO NOT START THIS INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE BIBLE

[virgovixen18]

all the harry potter books, great expectations and the great gatsby.

[Hopeless]

Uhh...ill go with the fan favorite and say harry potter and LOTR, i read them all except harry potter, i read up to the 3rd. I read the divinci code a little while ago, its good, but a tad overrated.

[Chud Monster]

Actually, I don't find Harry Potter or To Kill A Mockingbird overrated at all. I really do/did enjoy those books. >.>;;

Overrated? I'm not sure. I enjoy the books I read, though Hiroshima and Farenheit 451 were horrid... UGH.

[Rinoa_Heartilly]

I've only read part of the first Harry Potter book, but I suppose hearing everyone talk about it is pretty annoying... don't really care. I've heard so much of the LOTR books, and of course the ones I've read in school are overrated. Not all of them, I actually liked reading The Catcher in the Rye and other ones to be honest. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, wasn't all that bad neither, but still, everyone talked about it. Can't say what else. =P

[Follow_The_Lies]

yeah I think LOTR was just too, well, off topic too much. I mean everything was described to the point that it makes people lose interest. If people ever talked like that NOTHING would EVER get done. It would be like, "Hey, can you put this beautiful and intreguing book that reminds me of roses on a spring day and has the smell of cookies baking that will just make you want to eat a cookie so bad you will destroy cities until you get one, over on the table that has never once wobbled and at one point held the sword of <insert long name that no one will remember here> on it's smooth and finished top?" instead of just saying, "Can you put this book on that table?"

[OtakuBerserker]

God, lord of the rings was so boring. I dont know why good writing is the kind that explains the details of everything to a max extent. I couldnt even finish reading the book, it was so horribly boring.

Catcher in the rye was boring as hell. It was stupid, and I was really pissed off when the main charecter didnt die. I was wishing threwout the whole book that he would kill himself. I know its suppose to be deep, but I dont care.

I dont think Harry Potter is overrated at all. I dont like all the merchandise and stuff, but they were great books.

The Da Vinci Code was really not as good as most people said. I liked it, but It wasnt that great in my opinion.


But the most overrated book: Artemis Fowl. I hate that piece of crap.

[Kuja_sama]

yeah I think LOTR was just too, well, off topic too much. I mean everything was described to the point that it makes people lose interest. If people ever talked like that NOTHING would EVER get done. It would be like, "Hey, can you put this beautiful and intreguing book that reminds me of roses on a spring day and has the smell of cookies baking that will just make you want to eat a cookie so bad you will destroy cities until you get one, over on the table that has never once wobbled and at one point held the sword of <insert long name that no one will remember here> on it's smooth and finished top?" instead of just saying, "Can you put this book on that table?"
I didnt like it. Books are supposed to be better than TV becuase they let you use your own imagination. Not LOTR. Everything was described so vividly it may as well have just been a movie to begin with.
Not to mention that all that description got to be really confusing after a why.
LOL I bet that if it werent so full of descritpion it would have been only one book.

[BlackdevilStar]

straight up HARRYYY POTTER IS OVERATTED!!
and the movies... ughh what book are they on now.. IX ? ughhh i hate the kid and his adventrous fantasy's

[Hige]

5 words one book, one author
Harry Potter and DAN BROWN

THEY BOTH SUCK....

Hige

[arcrode]

5 words one book, one author
Harry Potter and DAN BROWN

THEY BOTH SUCK....

Hige
*GASPS* DAN BROWN?? How could you? O well whatever.

Harry potter, on the other hand, I agree with.

[Xytro]

to kill a mockingbird. its just so ****ing hard to read, and its boring too.

Yeah, the book was overrated, but the movie was good.

[animepunk]

I find text books rather overrated...

kidding... most of the books that i read in high school were pretty interesting, But i can't find one book that i have read to be overrated.

[AngelArm]

The DaVinci Code


Over rated....

[Prodigy]

I guess either The DaVinci Code or To Kill a Mocking Bired. And how did I know people were going to say the Bible in spite...Oh well..

[SimpsonsFreak]

I think the LOTR series and Harry Potter series are highly overrated. It is so long and it doesn't even finish in one book! I just watch the movie and know what happens then than to use up weeks (or months for the slow readers) to read each of the books.

[AzNiCe]

God, lord of the rings was so boring. I dont know why good writing is the kind that explains the details of everything to a max extent. I couldnt even finish reading the book, it was so horribly boring.

Catcher in the rye was boring as hell. It was stupid, and I was really pissed off when the main charecter didnt die. I was wishing threwout the whole book that he would kill himself.

I dont think Harry Potter is overrated at all. I dont like all the merchandise and stuff, but they were great books.

The Da Vinci Code was really not as good as most people said. I liked it, but It wasnt that great in my opinion.
well first of all i doubt your ability to read because in Catcher in the Rye he explicitly says in the first chapter that he is in an institution and that the whole story is just a flashback...

but anyways i personally liked the Lord of the Rings. It offers a more complete story than the movies (although i have yet to see the extended versions) and i think it gives you a lot better insight into the characters. the movies are great, and they do the books justice, but i still think the books are important.

the daVinci code was way overrated.. i was thinking hmm bestseller for months, had to be good, so i read it. it was not a good book; very superficial, lots of bangs but no real story. i guess it was mildly entertaining but after finishing it i could only say i was extremely disappointed. when you have as hot a topic as a secret conspiracy within the Church, how can you screw it up? i dont know, but he did.

[PuffSoul]

I think 99% percent of romances aren't worth the paper they're printed on, or at least the ones I read.

[vash_stampede]

the da vinci code is not overrated it deserves everything it gets, that book had me hooked till the end. the only other dan brown book ive read so far is digital fortess, and i finished that in 2 days cause i couldnt put it down.

[Lord_Burn]

LOTOR was never really ment to be read like a book. It, (and Tolkin's even more boring books,) was more of a fantastical reality that he created to cope with his experiences form WWII, (he was a soldier.) As a book, yeah overrated, but as the definition of modern fantasy litirture and the basis of all role playing/RPGs. It should be one of the most significant books to anyone here.

But yes the first one was boring as hell.

[Bloodtear]

I guess either The DaVinci Code or To Kill a Mocking Bired. And how did I know people were going to say the Bible in spite...Oh well..

Because bashing someone's religion is the cool thing to do now.

I personally don't like the Scarlet Letter, but it seems to be a popular book around here. Catcher in the Rye was about as fun to read as running headlong into a brick wall.

[CapnCrooked]

Mainly because those who thump it don't get it, and they make the lives of everyone else around them miserable.
I agree. The bible is overrated. Especially since if it was true at one time, it isn't anymore. It's been through so many revisions and changes that I doubt much of the "original" is still there. The King James version was tailored especially to him so that he could do whatever he wanted. There's more, like "God's Word", etc. Everything in the bible is open to interpretation anyway. Why do you think there are so many different religions that believe in Jesus? Jewish, Christian, Catholic, Mormon, etc. They all just interpreted it differently, and didn't agree with anyone else.

Besides, I hate those *******s coming around to my house with mentally handicapped people trying to get me to feel sorry for them while I listen to them tell me how god is going to save me. Go screw yourself and get off my property.

[Chud Monster]

Besides, I hate those *******s coming around to my house with mentally handicapped people trying to get me to feel sorry for them while I listen to them tell me how god is going to save me. Go screw yourself and get off my property.

I'm totally like.. spamming, but that was just too funny. XD

[blinks]

I dont reaaly think there is 'overrated' books, everyone has their own genre they like to read.

[azngurl8oD]

the harry potter book are the most overrated books in the world, even though i read them i dont find them that great. But i love dan brown's books. Angels and Demons is my favorite one except for the ending.... thought it was retarded

[Ava_Zero]

Harry Potter. For the amount of hype on it one would expect the books to be fantastic...well at least for me they aren't. I only read them because I want to know what happens, not because I actually enjoy reading them.

[Copain]

Wow, I thought I was the only one who thought Harry Potter was overrated. I also think Catcher in the Rye is overrated. Pretty crappy and depressing book if ya ask me.

[Last Exile Gear]

Catcher in the Rye was one of the worst books I have ever read. I felt no remorse for Holden and couldnt relate to him at all. If it wasnt for his character, the book would have been pretty decent.

Old Man and the Sea. 90-something pages of an old man on the ocean....BORING. Hemingway is an excellent writer, I guess he was just drunk when he wrote this one.

[LordAwesome]

Why does everyone use the phrase "drawn out" for LOTR, are you guy too ****ing stupid an unimaginative to read his works of art? If so plz die.

[flyingpapya7190]

The LOTR books were soooo boring... AHH it drove me crazy.
well i read the books way efore the movie and i didnt wanna watch the movie until everyone was like "its so good"

[RayReiLee]

LOTR!!! I mean it was an okay book, but too long and tedious!!!

[Tamago]

I think 99% percent of romances aren't worth the paper they're printed on, or at least the ones I read.

You guys are bashing Harry Potter (which is very entertaining and my favorite series, I might add), and you overlooked what this guy just mentioned. Wouldn't it have been obvious? BTW, you actually READ that ****?

Another one I'd like to add is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. It's about this senile old man who goes fishing for a big swordfish with only a fishing line, and finally catches him while having it dig into his flesh. Then he stumbles back on the docks, with a boy crying for him and his arms spread on some cross-shaped wooden planks (Christ symbolism). It's meant to be dramatic, but can anyone here picture that in their heads without laughing? After reading this ****, I wanted to stuff the book in my crack, eat some Van Camp's beans, and fart it to France where all gay things belong.

EDIT: Gee, I didn't know the thread was that old.

[Trissy]

LotR is the most overrated book I can think of. No offense to LotR book fans, but it's written horribly and it's so boring. The movies are good, yes, but they cut a whole bunch of crap out of the series. I began reading them a summer ago and I haven't picked it up since.

-Trissy

[Kirby Ate Vash]

Either the bible or the koran.



dont u mean Quran???

i say the bible. the religions keep on disagreeing on the little things, but really its all the same

[EnchantedAmmo]

I HATE LOTR! It was so drawn out. He described each leaf in that damn forest...

"And the 29th leaf was different from the others. It has five veins on the underside, unlike the three. Don't get me started on the 30th..."

Hah I kid of course but I thot it was funny.

I'm also perhaps the only person on Earth who hasn't read Harry Potter. I read the first book... I hated it cuz I was young. And now I won't go back to it. But wait! I found this somewhere... what if you replace the word "wand" with "wang" in the book? Find out urself.

LOL, He did describe every damn leaf!!

[OtakuBerserker]

LotR is the most overrated book I can think of. No offense to LotR book fans, but it's written horribly and it's so boring. The movies are good, yes, but they cut a whole bunch of crap out of the series. I began reading them a summer ago and I haven't picked it up since.

-Trissy Your a moron if you cant see that its well written. Dont you reallize that the movie is the SAME thing? And the fact is, the books are boring BECAUSE they are well written.

[advent]

Romeo and Juliet (if u consider it a book =)

[blue_whale_20]

harry poter

[AngelArm]

The DaVinci Code....
So over rated.
It's a decent book, but Angels and Demons was so much better, and people are making the book out to be a diety of some sort.
It isn't THAT good.

[bathrobe_sage]

The DaVinci Code should be retitled: Let's Just Bash Catholicism With Made Up Facts That We'll Claim Are True, The Novel. All of Dan Browns books are predictable, generic thrillers with some occultism/technology tossed in to shake things up. Once you've read one, you've read them all.

Other than the DaVinci Code, Ulysses by James Joyce, it's a bloated whale of a novel wallowing in the shallow waters of 'high' literature... Definately over rated.

[ShoelessProphet]

I think some people need to bring their reading level up a few notches before making an analysis of some of these books..

God, I could name you hundreds of over-rated books, but the one that annoys the frig out of me is Milton's Paradise Lost. A sheer stroke of poetical genius? BOLLOCKS! It's the most drab piece of toss-wank I have read in my life. And I read ALL OF IT...something many people do not achieve with this book.

'But Chris, the language used, and the metaphysics only help to compliment the rhythm and writing style. Surely you can appreciate the fact that the complexity of Milton's vigor, whilst composing the piece with a lack of sight, only helps to make this a masterpiece.'

My answer to that kind of drivle is to get your head out of you're 'academically elitist' arse and stop being so bloody pretentious. So what if the whole thing is supposedly as complex as you say, it doesn't stop it from being one of the most boring texts ever created. Woo, so Milton put a **** load of different concepts together, so what? The end result is complete arse. The story itself is actually pretty cool; with angels battling demons, mountains being thrown at one another and a crap load of other cool stuff, but Milton's portrayal is so dull and ugly I felt like dedicating the rest of my life trying to invent a time machine just so I could travel back and give Mr Milton a swift kick in the balls. End of the day, doesn't matter how much work you alledgedly put into something, if it's wank, it's wank.

As you can tell, I hated my university lecturers.

[vash_stampede]

I think some people need to bring their reading level up a few notches before making an analysis of some of these books..

God, I could name you hundreds of over-rated books, but the one that annoys the frig out of me is Milton's Paradise Lost. A sheer stroke of poetical genius? BOLLOCKS! It's the most drab piece of toss-wank I have read in my life. And I read ALL OF IT...something many people do not achieve with this book.

'But Chris, the language used, and the metaphysics only help to compliment the rhythm and writing style. Surely you can appreciate the fact that the complexity of Milton's vigor, whilst composing the piece with a lack of sight, only helps to make this a masterpiece.'

My answer to that kind of drivle is to get your head out of you're 'academically elitist' arse and stop being so bloody pretentious. So what if the whole thing is supposedly as complex as you say, it doesn't stop it from being one of the most boring texts ever created. Woo, so Milton put a **** load of different concepts together, so what? The end result is complete arse. The story itself is actually pretty cool; with angels battling demons, mountains being thrown at one another and a crap load of other cool stuff, but Milton's portrayal is so dull and ugly I felt like dedicating the rest of my life trying to invent a time machine just so I could travel back and give Mr Milton a swift kick in the balls. End of the day, doesn't matter how much work you alledgedly put into something, if it's wank, it's wank.

As you can tell, I hated my university lecturers.

No, you missed Milton's lesson..... "Its better to rule in hell, then to serve in heaven" he was using that to show how boring reading is.