The most overrated books of all time?

[jandrews]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
Catch 22. The text/value ratio was horrible.

You're crazy, Catch 22 was fantastic.

Catcher in the Rye I thought was meh. Didn't hate it, didn't like it. I read it the year after I graduated from high school to see what all the hub-bub was about. Turns out that people just have sticks up their butts.

Catch 22 was very meh to me, I really liked the hypocritical sense of it and of course the catch 22 situations but it just seemed so long long long long the good parts were few and far between.

 

[Platypus]

man I loved every word of Catch-22.. I've read it 5 times or so and I can't get the huge grin off my face each time I do

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: aplefka
Siddhartha. Also agree with Grapes of Wrath.

Siddhartha is a great book.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Has to be The Scarlett Letter. Most boring book ever IMO.

 

[Woosta]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Jonathan Livingston Seagull FTL! Followed by,
The Great Gatsby and,
The Three Musketeers.

No way.

 

[zerocool84]

Yes I also hated Wuthering Heights. I couldn't stand Catherine at all.

Catch-22 was very enjoyable to me on the other hand.
I also enjoyed All Quiet on the Western Front.

 

[shortylickens]

Definitely "The Great Gatsby". Read the book, watched the movie, totally ticked at wasting my time.
I suppose back then people were more impressed by rich playboys, but in our era we've seen WAY too much of it, and its no longer impressive.
The only one that comes close to impressing me is THE playboy, Hugh Hefner. He's about 90 years old and in addition to the thousands of beautiful women prancing around him for the past 60 years, he also has his little private harem of girlfriends.

AND HE'S NOT ASHAMED OF IT! Unlike many other rich old fuckers who hide their teenage mistresses, Hefner set up a whole TV show just to rub it in our faces.

If people in the so-called "Roaring 20's" could only imagine how much more insane things would get.........

Nope, Gatsby the character was an overrated chump, and the book was a huge waste of time.