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What book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped? (literature.cafe)

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Like books that got very popular but you never really could get into.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where the Crawdads Sing. The main mystery was predictable, the writing was nothing special and neither were the characters. After I read it I was kinda stumped why I had been seeing it everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of demand for things that are unoffensive and easy to digest. I just watched Gran Turismo because the audience ratings on RottenTomatoes are so high. It's...terrible. Doesn't even qualify as being cheesy good. It's just so superficial and predictable, more like watching a TV commercial than a movie. But apparently there's a segment of the population who really love that vibe