to think this is the most over-rated book ever

[SlightlyJaded]

'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things'

I love books. From big dramatic plotlines and epic storylines to subtle and beautfifully written prose with well drawn characters. I like quirky books, classic books, modern literature, poetry - anything well written or engaging.

I almost never have to 'force' myself to finish a book but always do finish a book if I've started (why do we do that? ) but thought 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' was the dullest most over-rated dross I've ever read.

Or did I miss something?

And yes, this should be in books, but I prefer AIBU

Jane Eyre - shit shit shit. Pathetic woman and abusive, controlling NPD man.

'on the other hand' crap

Cloud Atlas-have i missed asomething here or what? I had tried to read it twice and given up.

Loved "if nobody speaks"

currently wading through but debating getting rid of a book called When to walk by Rebecca Gowers-howvere just when i am getting bored it has a mini flash of something that keeps me going.

Loving the WH society idea, kewcumber. We can have a hanged puppy as our logo and insist on coming in through a window.

Jane Eyre the person is annoying, I'll give you, but the book is great.

No No the most over-rated book ever was that monstrosity called Shantaram. FGS, it was dreadful; over-blown fantasy from an author who obviously has a small penis and an over-inflated ego which no one else was willing to stroke so he had to do it himself. It basically uses India as a pawn in the main character's self-pleasuring violent wank-fest. Utterly turgid.

I have actually changed my opinion of people who have told me that they liked it. Be warned

Also think Middlemarch is dull; I finished it but really, was that it? 800 pages (or whatever) for that?

Oh Memory Keeper's Daughter - formulaic tear jerker. Boo hoo hoo - I don't honestly care.

Liked TTW, Kevin, Girl with a Dragon Tattoo (although it could really have done with a good hard edit - knock off about 200 pages and you'd have a really good book). Hate Kate Mosse, Da Vinci code and all the 'evil Catholics' books.

I really must cover my bookshelves out of shame should any MNers come round

@ CoteDazur

"1000 Splendid Suns
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Book Thief

These and some other "bestsellers'" I've had the misfortune to read led me to conclude that the masses who buy these books are idiots."

Are we still idiots if we get them out of the library? I enjoyed all of those. And Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. And most things by Sebastian Faulks - even Human Traces. And Sophie's World, even though I didn't learn a lot about philosophy - there was so much of it that I couldn't remember who was who by the end.

Most of Dickens on the other hand....

Jane Eyre was annoying. ANNOYING? FUCKING ANNOYING?

Ouch! But what book am I being nasally disembowelled for not liking??!!

Both - JE and Love in

I would consider it an honour to be papercutted by JE

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. I find her writing style akin to paint drying.

Ditto Da Vinci.
Actually loved TT' Wife

It's not often I don't finish a book but 'My Shit Life So Far' by Frankie Boyle actually is shit. Thank goodness I have a kindle and so can just delete it.

Oh, and Stieg Larsson is massively overrated whilst we're at it.

Agree with Elephants about Pamela (simpering heroine & 'pantomime' would-be rapist) / Shamela.

Am reading Steig Larsson's 2nd of the trilogy at the present and think I am enjoying it although not sure how many abusive twatty men/abused women there are to go in this series.

Wuthering Heights is fab - brooding villain in the Gothic style, comic attempts at dialect, a few ghosties and the brooding presence of the moor.

Moll Flanders makes better television than literature.

Was about to agree with Hully til she mentioned Seb Faulks. And anyone who has posted disrespectful comments regarding Hardy, Austen, any Bronte sister, George Eliot, Ian McEwan or Wolf Hall should be locked in a room for a week with nothing but Dan Brown to read. That'll learn you all!

The worst book I have every read was the Da Vinci Code. I could not believe such garbage but like others once I've started I have to finish. It was actually recommended by a colleague's mum, who is an English teacher. I despair.

I was also very underwhelmed by the Labyrinthe.

Am now worried as I have just ordered the Time Traveller's Wife from the library for my holiday reading next week and most of you hated it.

TTW is SHIT, don't do it. But then if you like Drippy Faulks...

Can understand that the Brontes are not everybody's cup of tea. But how can you not like Jane Austen?

And why has nobody mentioned motherfucking TWILIGHT???

Anything with the word Shopoholic in it. I read one where she had a baby when I was breastfeeding in the night and my brain couldn't take anything more intellectual than the back of a cornflakes packet.

I then realised people actually liked these books so much she had gone on and written a whole series of them.

I loved Kevin, loved Wolf Hall (another history geek).

Would crawl over broken glass for Jane Austen. Anyone not liking her is being VVVVVVV unreasonable.

FreeButtonbee - I will now follow you to end s of the earth. I think I love you....

Hully - I hate TTW too, please may I have my guts back?

Yes, Twilight is shit but it is written for 10 year old girls. Still read them tho as I love the films. And I am most definitely Team Jacob

I loved The Other Hand

Anything by Jane Green
Most crime fiction

and

A Brief History of Time

plus tbh most of my own publications, which even bore me at times.

Agree wholeheartedly with If Nobody speaks
Time Traveller's Shite
Labyrythne
and anything ever written by Wilbur Smith or Dan Brown.

Oh and by the way I would be more than happy to have written any of these books.