<p>@trumpetgirl
When I saw this thread, the first thing I wanted to say was Harry Potter. I loved the story, but I don’t think it was THAT good (I thought the movie was better anyway). </p>
<p>Then there’s Lord of the Flies. Nobel prize or not, I hated that book. And Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons was more boring than my school’s calculus textbook…</p>
<p>Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
I realize it’s not technically a book but still to my mind Death of a Salesman is a fairly good definition of overrated.</p>
<p>To the person who said “The Old Man and The Sea” you have obviously not taken your SATs yet. I like you read the book and thought it was quite bad until I got to the SATs and realized that you could equate nearly EVERY essay question that the SAT people can throw at you to the Old Man and the Sea.</p>
<p>To the person that said anything by James Joyce… I am stunned… Other than Finnegan’s Wake (which while it makes no sense just sounds lovely when read aloud) I can not believe that anyone could read a Joyce book cover to cover and dislike it…</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^
I read The Awakening last year. I made myself suffer through the entire book because I thought it might end nicely, but it was just urgh.</p>
<p>And Speak was pretty good, although I haven’t read it in ages. I don’t mind a lot of teen-targeted books. They’re like mystery novels. Some of those are good when you need a little relief from giant books by authors who belittle the use of words in a normal person’s vocabulary.</p>
<p>Sarah Dessen and Dan Brown aren’t that bad. Formulaic, but I don’t get that murderous feeling when I read them.</p>
<p>omg I can’t believe someone said James Joyce! >:O</p>
<p>I’m a Romanticism junkie, so I thought Wuthering Heights was a decent book. I also liked Heart of Darkness, and don’t watch Apocalypse Now if you like the book because it’s a terrible movie, especially the ending.</p>
<p>I have to say Grapes of Wrath for its horrible characters
To Kill a Mockingbird, which, despite being cliche and predictable, is in every high school curriculum</p>
<p>Twilight.</p>
<p>QED.</p>
<p>hated: </p>
<ul>
<li>the awakening</li>
<li>hamlet [because everyone DIES! how depressing!?!?]</li>
<li>moby dick</li>
<li>the old man and the sea [omg the whole book was pointless]</li>
<li>the last book of the Series of Unfortunate Events. for such a good series, i was severely disappointed</li>
</ul>
<p>“because everyone DIES!” -> happens in roughly 50% of Shakespeare :)</p>
<p>^only his tragedies :b</p>
<p>btw, never read The Tempest - it’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever read</p>
<p>haha… yeahhh that is true. im pretty sure that im no shakespeare lover [unlike the rest of my Brit Lit class]… i liked romeo and juliet, but the ending?! =[</p>
<p>im a sappy, romantic, love story person ;D and u cant forget those happy endings!</p>
<p>Just what was the point of The Great Gatsby? I absolutely hated The Awakening and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. </p>
<p>I actually liked Of Mice and Men and Brave New World.</p>
<p>^^ second that. Brave New World was amazing.</p>
<p>^^lol I like Solzhenitsyn (sp?) 's ability to turn no plot into an interesting work of introspection</p>
<p>I hate all Steinbeck</p>
<p>All The Scarlett Letter-, The Awakening-, Great Gatsby-, and One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich-haters are crazy.</p>
<p>Shakespeare, overall, I would say, is overrated (and Leo Tolstoy agrees with me!), but certain plays of his are actually pretty incredible.</p>
<p>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the worst book I ever attempted to finish. It made me want to cry and throw up and stab someone.</p>
<p>^Why you no like Huckleberry Finn? :(</p>
<p>I read Lord of the Flies this year (freshmen). I thought that in literary terms it was simple but Golding’s theme was brilliant. And Lost was based off off Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>^Huckleberry Finn had the worst ending I have ever read.</p>
<p>Point made I guess. Tom Sawyer > Huckleberry Finn. </p>
<p>Jurassic Park was good. The sequel was okay though</p>
<p>I’ve never thought Twain was all the good a writer. He was a somewhat interesting character I suppose, but his works aren’t very deep</p>
<p>Yeah, I read an entire essay about how Huck Finn’s ending sucked and detracted from the novel–though I didn’t think it was much to begin with.</p>
<p>It’s hard for me to understand how Great Gatsby is on here. I LOVE THAT BOOK :)</p>
<p>Also love Brave New World and Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>It’s worth a second mention to say again that I HATE WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Honestly, that book is why I don’t hate Jane Austen, because Pride&Prejudice was so much better than that bullcrap romance.</p>
<p>lol why would you blame Jane Austen for Wuthering Heights??? :b</p>
<p>I thought it was good anyway, if all the Cathies were confusing and kind of boring, hte other characters made up for it</p>
<p>Ha I tried to read Wuthering Heights on my own once upon a time… Didn’t work out so well.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter is extraordinarily overrated. Our English teacher made us skip the first 42 pages or something like that because he thought they were pointless… If I ever got bored of reading a paragraph or page or just plain out didn’t understand what Hawthorne was saying, I would just skip that paragraph/page. I never missed anything…</p>