Overrated books.

[LadyOnArooftop]

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
This novel is regarded as one of the great classics, on a par with Orwell's 1984. Written in 1932, admittedly the book is way ahead of it's time with it's test-tube babies and hypnotic persuasion techniques. It just wasn't a good read, I gave up on it after 40 pages.

Any books you've given up on?

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Trainspotting
A friend gave me this book the other day and I loved the movie so I was really looking forward to reading it. But the entire book seemed to have been written in Scottish slang. I couldn't get past the first few pages.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

the idea of government provided recreational drugs and a culture of endless orgies - is unappealing.

But preferable to the brutal, mind-controlling totalitarian state in Orwell's 1984 dystopian future...

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Trainspotting
A friend gave me this book the other day and I loved the movie so I was really looking forward to reading it. But the entire book seemed to have been written in Scottish slang. I couldn't get past the first few pages.

Fit div ye mean wee mannie? Diven't be gype! Tis fae easy tae read!

 

[Moriarty]

Anything by J.K.Rowling.

 

[Raining_Roses]

Fifty Shades of Grey. I've read about more kink in the Daily Mail.