Hey there everyone! I finished reading Saramago’s ‘Blindness’ a while ago and… I have to admit that I had to push myself through to finish it, much to the bafflement of many people who consider it a ‘masterpiece’. When I wrote its review, I pointed out how the written style was blocky and nearly a headache to read due to the lack of proper punctuation, paragraphs and so on.
But now I’m sort of curious, what sort of book you thought was ‘overrated’ and why?
The Lovely Bones. I read 90% of it and had to put it down. Didn’t even Google the ending. Did not care what happened. 🫤
I first thought of The Lovely Bones. The writer seemed like she started off wanting to write a story where the ghost helps people catch the killer, then turned it into a mood piece about people grieving and coping, and then got to the end and realized “Oh yeah, I have to wrap this up, I’ll caught ‘death by icicle’ so at least there’s some karma.”