Most overrated books

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I'll probably get flamed for some of these choices but here's my list:

1. Brick lane by Monica Ali. So badly written and researched, i was embarrassed for the author, as I'm from a similar background to her.

1. The God of small things. There was one sentence that was repeated over and over again to the point of toe curling cringe. Something about the twin's hair bobbing. Also generally didn't enjoy the writing or plot. Just absolute crap. I don't get the adulation for this at all.

1. Anything by Maggie o'Farrell or Kate Atkinson. I know people love them both, i just don't get it.

1. Sophie Hannah's more recent books are just dire. The earlier ones were great.

1. Catch 22. Just gibberish. You probably have to be drugged up to enjoy it.

I'm sure I'll think of more.

So which books do you think are overrated?

The alchemist - biggest pile of shite I've ever read!

Disagree with you on 3. Love both those authors. Will have a think about what I do think is overrated!!

The Goldfinch - needed a good eit

Yes agree with the alchemist. Load of pants.

*edit oh the irony of that typo

General: classic novels from the likes of the bronte sisters, Jane austen, Thomas Hardy etc.

Specific: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Catcher in the rye

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Beautiful writing but totally unsympathetic characters and a hugely tedious plot.

Eleanor Oliphant- I just didn't 'get' it.

Basically any Booker Prize winners.

Ah, I love Kate Atkinson and also Catch 22! I would say The Miniaturist, and the Poisonwood Bible, although I know lots of people like them. I found the ending of The Miniaturist to be dire and couldn't get on with TPB at all.

I love Maggie O'Farrell!

Catcher in the Rye is the biggest load of tosh I've ever forced myself to read.

Yes to the Alchemist, and also adding to my list The secret history by Donna Tart.

I agree @SamBaileys - Eleanor oliphant was a massive let down

Also Room by Emma Donahue (I think) it was so, so badly written

SamBaileys I loved Eleanor Oliphant. One of my stand out reads of 2018.

Oh, also A Little Life. Is that what it is called? The four men in New York living lives that pile misery upon misery.

Catcher in the rye

The Secret History is my favourite book! We must have completely opposite taste OP. You should try the books I mentioned, you might love them

Anything by David Mitchell. By god he is tedious.

The Finch by Donna Tartt. Just. So. Boring. I got to the part where the incident has happened in the first section, a bit past there and I basically lost interest.

I agree Room by Emma Donahue was awful. Or the half of it I read.

I don't have enough time to read books I'm not enjoying all the way through.

Les Miserables. Needs a good edit.

Catcher in the Rye was perfect! That moment when he explains the title makes me cry every time.

Captain Corellis Mandolin. I tried 3 times to read it and gave up
Anything by Charles Dickens
Chocolat by Joanne Harris - left me gong 'huh' ? - and yet I loved Blackberry Wine

Jane Eyre

Room was terrible.

That book Behind Closed Doors was the worst thing I'd read in years.