Give me an example of an overrated classic or author. I'm not big on Steinbeck.?

Answer 1

Personally I could never get into Tolken know matter how much I tried, I can listen to the audio books just cant read them.

Answer 2

Ulysses by James Joyce is overrated. Steinbeck is not. I just finished reading THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and I have to defend him. This book is important on so many different levels. It's not a pretty story, but it held great meaning to the generation that lived through the Great Depression. It affected change--FDR was even impressed by it. My grandparents were born and died in Oklahoma, so I guess I'm partial. I think it holds meaning for us even today. We should take those UN scientists seriously when they warn us that global warming is real and threatening our very way of life.

Steinbeck may not have been the most prolific writer, but he said it all with this book.

Answer 3

Ulysses by technique of James Joyce is overvalued. Steinbeck isn't. I in basic terms finished reading THE GRAPES OF WRATH, and that i must take care of him. This e book is important on such truly some diverse ranges. it really is not any longer a quite tale, notwithstanding it held tremendous which ability to the era that lived by ability of the whole melancholy. It affected substitute--FDR replaced into even inspired by technique of it. My grandparents were born and died in Oklahoma, so i guess i'm partial. i imagine it holds which ability for us even on the instantaneous. we could consistently take those UN scientists heavily at the same time as they warn us that global warming is real and risky our very way of life. Steinbeck received't were the most prolific author, yet he suggested all of it with this e book.

Answer 4

I love Steinbeck, he is so readable and says so much about people and history. I just can't get into William Faulkner. I know he received the Nobel Prize for Literature but some of his books are just unreadable (The Sound and the Fury) and others are just not all that fascinating (Light in August, for example), although I do like some of this short stories ... The Bear, for example.

Answer 5

I have to agree with you about Steinbeck. Moby Dick (Melville) is kinda strung-along, but the WORST writer in American history would have to be James Fenimore Cooper. I mean, what uneducated, illiterate man would talk like Natty does? And the "Indians" in the Leatherstocking Tales are dreadfully misrepresented, even for the time they were written. UGH!

Answer 6

By "overrated" do you mean, they're great by literary standards and you don't like them? I personally adore Hemingway, but some may argue they're not a fan of his work.

There's also Langston Hughes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Virginia Woolf and so many more classic authors that we could go on listing them all day!

Answer 7

Most people think James Fenimore Cooper (one of the first American authors) makes for boring reading . . . this isn't to say he doesn't know the craft. I agree, though. I'm not big on Steinbeck either, though I've only read two of his books. I'm also not big on Charles Dickens.

Answer 8

Maybe I am weird - every once is a while I "assign" myself to read a classic. Most classics I have read are tremendous. Not too long ago I read The Count of Monte Cristo and was very disappointed.

Answer 9

F. Scott Fitzgerald is overrated to me.

And Sandra Brown. She actually used the cliche "caught between a rock and a hard place" in one of her novels!

Hmm... let's see... that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Answer 10

Truman Capote? No author should be able to influence the decision of a trial the way his non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood"