It may be down to the old problem of books not working in translation, but I found My Name is Red a chore to read. The subject matter was interesting, but it was a slow read.
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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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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. 
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- 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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Orhan Pamuk
- 25/05/2014 01:15:06 AM
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