10 most overrates books of all time.

I am a pretty heavy reader, and when given an choice I almost always read older stuff, in fact when the BBC came out with a list of the 100 greatest books of all times, I have ready 83 of them, sense then, I knocked the other 17 out. I have also gotten most of the double day foundations list of the 100 greatest works of world literary. (Which is much less Euro-centric)

And as I often tell people some of the greatest things in the world are also the most overrated.
Now I'm not talking sliced bread hear people, after all. (Bread + Bread knife = Sliced bread is not that impressive) I mean that allot of famous books (And anything really) Are simply not as good as people let on, or are famous for a stupid reason.

So I decided to make a list of the TOP TEN MOST OVERRATED BOOKS OF ALL TIME!

But before I start, I would like to make two Dishonorable Mentions.


Dishonorable Mentions #1: Twilight. (All of it)
 To sum up what is wrong with Twilight I will use a quota.
"Harry potter is all about confronting fears finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity, twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend." :Steven King.
Thank you Steven.To sum it up in my words. Bella is a Mary Sue, A character that every one likes but no one can give a reason for, she's useless, helpless, A fop and the character sets women back at least....  two thousand years. It's not well written, its not consistent breaking basically every rule set forward in the story by the end, there is a lack of character development and Edward is a flawless boring character. (Whos face looks like a foot in the movies)

Simply put this is just not a good book, it sells itself to the lowest common denominator, its basically a female version of movie that has nothing but Explosions and tits in it. But I wont put it on the list for two reasons, its to polarizing simply put you love it or you think its a steaming pile of shit. And if Twitards would look around they might relies they are out numbered. And the second reason is.. In ten years no one will remember it.


Dishonorable Mention #2: The King James Version of the Bible. 

Now I know what allot of people are thinking.. and I don't care. There is nothing wrong with the KJB other then it is the worst choice for a bible if your not Church of England. And even then its not that good. Look its is a. (Deep Breath) Political re-wright of a German Bible, that was a political re-wright of a Latin Bible, that was a political re-wright of a Greek bible, that was a bad translation of a Hebrew torah.

Pick up a New International Bible for craps sake. It's better. And it doesn't make allot of sense that people who fled the Church of England for religions freedom are using there bible.

_ So on to the list.

#10: A song of ice and fire. (All of it)

So first thing, this is actually a well written story, and should actually be considered a good read. BUT... It's kind of like Twilight, getting way to much attention. And its not THAT good. And if there was ever a book that I could actually agree with Feminists about being terrible its this one.
The characters are unlikable, there are to many plot holes, there is to much rape. Or talk of rape, or thought of rape, To much baby killing, no much back stabbing. So on and so forth, we get it, your world sucks. Move on and give us something else. And no we don't need a HBO series, a Movie Series and a PC game.

#9: The Hunger Games.

Again a very new title, and that's why its up here, getting to much attention, but this one I think I will actually have to put up with longer then Twilight. But its still basically crap, there is no reason to really get involved in this book the characters are.. Meh, And there is no reason to want the "hero" to prevail over any one else. This is a book that want you to think its social commentary cleverly hidden in a violent story about children stabbing each other. But no its actually a story about Children Stabbing each other hidden in a pretentious load of social commentary. And Again A movie already?

#8: Wuthering Heights.

This would be higher up there if more people wear forced to read it, I say forced to read it because that's the only reason that any one reads it, because they are forced to in English Lit classes. Let me sum it up for you, Its to jumpy to know what is happening half the time, every character is a two dimensional ass hole and a terrible person. And its a predictable trashy novel. In other words its a Trashy romance novel were every on has Aspergers.

#7: The Great Gatsby.
There is a reason that this book made little money when it came out despite being a "Critical success" And that's because Critics don't know shit. And more often then not a pretentious pricks. Well Written does not mean GOOD! It's a boring ass book about a ass hole who runs some one over and then gets shot in a pool. That's it.

#6: Atlas Shrugged.
And Again don't misunderstand and think I don't think this book is not good. It's just that... Its a slow boring book about political and moral views hidden under a slow boring book about political views and moral standards. No really there is basically no way to hide the fact. It would have actually been a better read if the author would have just written a academic paper.

#5: Jane Eyre.
This book is not on hear because its a good book that's considered a great book, it's head because its a boring book that's considered a good book. I can read things like war and peace, and a tale of two city's without being bored. The secret garden is one of my favorite books, and this book was almost to boring for me to get past the first two chapters. This not bad, it not badly written its just SO BORING, and its not like its a boring book with great subtext or anything its just a boring book.

#4: The catcher in the rye.
This is kind of like Jane Eyre only its supposed to have subtext, which it does not, or rather it has clumsy subtext. And is about an equally unlikeable character. Ill save you the time of reading this, just find a whinny emo kid and sit and listen to them talk to you for.. I don't know... two days. That's pretty much the same thing.

#3: The Da Vinci Code.
Kind of like the movie, its interesting to read, but its not clever. It's not really that shocking, and most importantly its pretentious and written by a guy who clearly has a VERY high opinion of himself. It's on hear more because of the regards its held it.

#2: The Scarlet letter.
And Again this is not a book about something important, its a book about smut, and covered with just enough social commentary to get it buy, You will notice allot of these are basically trashy romance novels about people fucking and murdering. That's because Critics are Morons who think that's good writing.

#1: Moby Dick!
OK so right off the bat, this is a GOOD book, it has some of the best Dialog in a book I have ever seen, and very good subtext, so it normally has everything I like in a book, the problem is that's all it has at all. Other then that its just a boring book about a guy trying to kill a whale, there are no real compelling characters. (The Whale is more compelling then most of the crew) And there are sections wear the author is clearly padding. There is a entire chapter wear the captain is just naming off (Not even talking about) Whale species.

Again one of those moments wear the book should be on a list of best books, but is still at the top of the most overrated book list.