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Type: fiction

Status: neutral

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Tags: overrated

Description: Vastly overrated. Not a bad novel, I suppose, but certainly not a masterpiece. The poeticVastly overrated. Not a bad novel, I suppose, but certainly not a masterpiece. The poetic style of McCarthy's prose is evocative; however, where he's strong on setting the mood for parable, his main character is slight and the prose style is distracting when the reader is left incredulous that the characters never think in terms of names, or recall much of anything about their past, but the author's busting out the thesaurus to make artsy sentence fragments. ...

2007-06-22

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: J. G. Ballard

Tags: scifi overrated ballard

Description: Ballard's great, but this one is underwhelming.

2005-09-24

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Issac Asimov

Tags: scifi classic overrated asimov

Description: Again, just never could take Asimov's prose. Tons of dialogue punctuated by not particularlyAgain, just never could take Asimov's prose. Tons of dialogue punctuated by not particularly evocative 'he did this, he did that, this happened' like he was rattling the stuff off as fast he could. Which, evidently, he was. Not without value and certainly influential, but nothing I'd want to read again. ...

2005-09-24

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: William Gibson

Tags: cyberpunk scifi overrated

Description: I know it's considered 'the cyberpunk classic.' Still underwhelmed. Never understoodI know it's considered 'the cyberpunk classic.' Still underwhelmed. Never understood the popularity of this one. It's the writing. Like Gibson read his Dashiell Hammett, but didn't understand what made him great....

2005-09-24

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jay McInerny

Tags: overrated pop underappreciated

Description: The Palahniuk of the 80s? A critical and popular success with virtually no relevance? I haven'tThe Palahniuk of the 80s? A critical and popular success with virtually no relevance? I haven't read it since 1987 so I can't say for sure how I feel about it now. I liked it then....

2005-09-24

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Tags: overrated boring

Description: I know people love it but for the life of me I just don't get. Is the prose really thatI know people love it but for the life of me I just don't get. Is the prose really that great? While not horrible, Lolita gets my vote for one of the most overrated novels of all time....

2005-09-11

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Orson Scott Card

Tags: overrated fascism

Description: As an impressionable 12 yr. old, I was taken in by Card. But hasn't everyone know forAs an impressionable 12 yr. old, I was taken in by Card. But hasn't everyone know for years what Ender's Game is really about and what a complete fascist Card is? I'm surprised by his continuing popularity....

2005-09-10