Thread: Most overhyped classic masterpiece?
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Old 09-29-2009, 11:48 AM   #202
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Just goes to show, what you get from a book can change so much over the years.
Agree.
I used to love Theodore Dreiser and Victor Hugo 15 years ago, but cannot bring myself to read their sad, real life books when there are so many unrealistic, escapist books out there I also adored A. Dumas even before Dreiser and Hugo but barely managed to re-read The Count of Monte Cristo 1 year ago. We change, time changes...

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yes ... but what's your most overhyped classic?
Perseverance pays huge dividends

I don't have one book that is the MOST. I definitely have one cetegory: any, absolutely any Russian Classics. I read all I had to read in school and hated every single one of them. Could not like even one book.
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