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?

  • NoPancakesToday75@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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. 🫤

    • Dimpleshenk@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.”