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post your unpopular literature opinions?

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MrShannon385 · 26/10/2023 00:28

Curly was the best character in mice an men

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IHateWasps · 26/10/2023 08:17

Wuthering Heights is better than Jane Eyre.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 26/10/2023 08:14

StrangePaintName · 26/10/2023 08:09

Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan have been writing the same identikit middle-aged white-guy borefests for decades.

PG Wodehouse isn’t funny.

Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels is like being hit repeatedly on the head with a spoon.

I don't believe in any of McEwan's characters, particularly the women. See also Sebastian Faulks.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 26/10/2023 08:12

Woadicea · 26/10/2023 06:55

Dickens is overrated

Seconded. Or thirded, or however many people agreed. First year Eng Lit was instant Dickens aversion therapy for me.

Jerome K Jerome in Three Men In A Boat tries too hard to be funny and fails.

Middlemarch is too long - decent editor needed to make it less wordy.

I've never read Catcher In The Rye, Catch 22 any JKR or Anne Frank's Diary and have no intention of doing so.

StrangePaintName · 26/10/2023 08:09

Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan have been writing the same identikit middle-aged white-guy borefests for decades.

PG Wodehouse isn’t funny.

Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels is like being hit repeatedly on the head with a spoon.

SkiingIsHeaven · 26/10/2023 08:07

Shakespeare is totally an emperors new clothes situation.

People say they love it to seem intelligent and cultured.

It is just unnecessary drivel.

There are far more interesting books to force our children to read.

Brefugee · 26/10/2023 08:05

DisforDarkChocolate · 26/10/2023 08:01

Common phrase or Rivers of London fan?

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it originates by Douglas Adams. I believe Aaranovich is a fan

DisforDarkChocolate · 26/10/2023 08:01

Brefugee · 26/10/2023 07:33

The Alchemist was the biggest pile of foetid dingo's kidneys in the entirety of the written word. End Of.😂

Common phrase or Rivers of London fan?

DisforDarkChocolate · 26/10/2023 08:00

Madame Bovary was funny.

Catscatscatscatscatscats · 26/10/2023 08:00

Jeffery Archer writes a bloody good story.

Roald Dahl books are just wierd and not in a good way

Porridgeislife · 26/10/2023 07:52

Shantaram was 500 pages of self-indulgent humble brag from a ex con turned white saviour.

Woadicea · 26/10/2023 07:51

Agreed!

Same with Catcher in the Rye. Massively hyped, to near mythical status and they're both just...OK.

Tadpolle · 26/10/2023 07:42

I love all of Jonathan Franzen's novels.

DiDonk · 26/10/2023 07:39

Shraree · 26/10/2023 07:06

Jonathan Franzen is massively overrated. He is where he is mostly because he's a bloke, has unreserved self confidence, literature journalists think he's cool and wears trendy glasses.
His books? Meh.

Ah so my unpopular opinion isn't unpopular after all!

moonlight1705 · 26/10/2023 07:35

Dan Brown writes a rippingly good yarn.

BarbaraofSeville · 26/10/2023 07:35

I tried Little Women and didn't like it at all.

Brefugee · 26/10/2023 07:33

The Alchemist was the biggest pile of foetid dingo's kidneys in the entirety of the written word. End Of.😂

Exasperatednow · 26/10/2023 07:32

Jane Eyre is chick lit for the victorisn era.

NoraLuka · 26/10/2023 07:24

MikeRafone · 26/10/2023 07:20

I really enjoyed all the Enid Blyton books and read many of secret seven, Mallory Towers etc

I still have some Enid Blyton books from when I was a kid and sometimes read one if I’m tired and miserable, they are like the book version of a teddy 😳

dicedicebaby · 26/10/2023 07:23

MikeRafone · 26/10/2023 07:20

I really enjoyed all the Enid Blyton books and read many of secret seven, Mallory Towers etc

I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, most people loved them 😂

MikeRafone · 26/10/2023 07:20

I really enjoyed all the Enid Blyton books and read many of secret seven, Mallory Towers etc

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 26/10/2023 07:20

Jane Austen is as snobby as Mrs Bennet.

WandaWonder · 26/10/2023 07:19

Jane Austen has issues

Beninthesortingoffice · 26/10/2023 07:18

I do love Jennifer Weiner's books, however!

Beninthesortingoffice · 26/10/2023 07:18

The only time I have come across Jonathan Franzen is in Jennifer Weiner's writing. I'm not quite sure what point this makes ...

mdinbc · 26/10/2023 07:14

I did not think The Great Gatsby was very great.