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A lot of my absolutely favorite books are rated below 4.0. A few examples: 1. White Noise at 3.86 2. Catch-22 at 3.99 3. Dhalgren at 3.77 4. At Swim-Two-Bir
by tikhonj 3y ago
A lot of my absolutely favorite books are rated below 4.0. A few examples:
1. White Noise at 3.86
2. Catch-22 at 3.99
3. Dhalgren at 3.77
4. At Swim-Two-Birds at 3.86
5. Midnight's Children at 3.98
6. Омон Ра at 3.90
7. Never Let Me Go at 3.84
Drawing the line at 4 rules out some of the most interesting books.
In my experience, you really have to fall below 3.5 to get consistently bad books, and even then it's not 100% guaranteed.
- hotnfresh 3y agoWoolf’s To the Lighthouse and Orlando are under a 4. But under a 4 is guaranteed bad? LOLWUT. And that’s just the first author I checked. Vonnegut’s Deadeye Dick (less of a crowd pleaser than his handful of biggest books, but certainly not in the bottom tier of his works) is under a 4. The A Man Without a Country collection, which is more of interest as a curiosity than because much of it’s good, is over a 4. Yeah, you may as well flip a coin.
- tarboreus 3y agoAnything assigned in a high school or college English class gets a huge ding, because people who don't want to read it are forced to and, predictably , hate it.