5 Overrated Novels

And why, without being bad, they aren’t excellent books.

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Literature is an act that is as personal as it is private, which inevitably makes it closely linked to the reader’s subjectivity.

The same novel can have a different impact on the person who reads it. In the same way, what one person marvels at, another may find anodyne. The capacity of art to generate different…