Another whose fiction at least is very overrated is André Breton. My opinion, of course.
Another... Alain Robbe-Grillet and with him all the "nouveau roman" literary movement, so pretentious and boring.
I haven't read anything by either and don't plan on it anytime soon. I am, however, reading Le Roman de la Rose right now. I'm about 60% of the way through and enjoying it very much. I found it very amusing that the amanz was upset with Raison for using the word coilles (couilles) in her discourse, but then when Amis uses it again, he doesn't mind at all.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Speaking of overrated authors...
- 18/04/2014 04:55:41 PM
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Hemingway, for the most part
- 18/04/2014 07:31:30 PM
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Coelho is like Deepak Chopra.
- 18/04/2014 07:36:45 PM
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Speaking of Deepak Chopra.
- 18/04/2014 09:20:22 PM
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It's even worse when he says something without preparation.
- 19/04/2014 04:35:49 PM
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I'm sure I would need a lot of alcohol to get through an event of his. *NM*
- 20/04/2014 04:14:49 AM
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H.P. Lovecraft
- 18/04/2014 09:16:24 PM
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I'd add Joyce. In French I think the most overrated novelist is Proust.
- 18/04/2014 10:29:04 PM
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Both of those are great picks.
- 19/04/2014 04:38:40 PM
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That's actually really hard.
- 18/04/2014 10:42:35 PM
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You could have always said Dan Brown if you were having problems. 
*NM*
- 19/04/2014 04:40:23 PM
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*NM*
- 19/04/2014 04:40:23 PM
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Yeah, but he's not overrated.
- 19/04/2014 04:52:34 PM
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I think they bash him more because he tries to pass fiction off as fact.
- 19/04/2014 06:22:59 PM
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I did not like James Fenimore Cooper (Last of the Mohicans, specifically)
- 23/04/2014 09:23:44 PM
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Have you tried The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?
- 23/04/2014 09:52:28 PM
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You can't seriously believe Baudolino is good, much less accessible.
- 23/04/2014 10:15:28 PM
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The ones listed already are ones I agree with.
- 23/04/2014 10:36:04 PM
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I've never understood people who read everything Shakespeare wrote.
- 26/04/2014 07:17:27 PM
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