As an avid reader, often times I made to feel ashamed if I have not read or liked a certain book. I have read most of the classics and I can you that a lot of them are overrated and dull. Here is my list of the most overrated books:
1. Anna Karenina: this novel is mostly the same as Madame Bovary. The difference is that Flaubert is able to make his point in a concise manner while Tolstoy takes around 900 pages to come to his.
2. Moby Dick: I thought that a book about a whale chase would be something like Jaws and therefore halfway interesting but no such luck. The only interesting thing was that two grown men that were strangers slept in the same bed.
3. Tale of Two Cities: Just incredibly dull.
4. Atlas Shrugged: Rand seemed to just want to rant about politics and wanted a platform to do so. I guess she came up with this horribly boring storyline as a front for shoving her opinions down our throats.
5. Crime and Punishment: This novel had an interesting concept but in the end was just way too verbose.
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