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Post a writer and their
>most overrated work
>most underrated work

>Dostoevsky

>Overrated
Crime and Punishment

>Underrated
Notes From The Underground

>> No.7014435

>>7014430
>tripfag Op

>Overrated
his post

>Underrated
his suicide note

>> No.7014976

>>7014430
PYNCHON

>overrated
The Crying of Lot 49
>underrated
Against the Day

>> No.7014981

Notes from Underground isn't fucking overrated, it's like his most read book after C&P. Maybe even more read since it's shorter

>> No.7014983

Dostoevsky is the only one I've read all of and I'd say

Overrated - Notes

Underrated - The Idiot(Brothers karamazov by wide society)

>> No.7014985

Shakespeare
>overrated
Hamlet
>underrated
Richard II

>> No.7014988

>>7014981
I mean it isn't underrated

>> No.7014990

Robert Frost

>Overrated
The Road Not Taken

>Underrated
Directive

>> No.7014996

DFW

>overrated (but still great)
Infinite Jest

>underrated
Consider the Lobster (clearly the superior essay collection)

>> No.7015037
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Tao Lin

OVERATED:
>Taipei

UNDERRATED:
>Brunch with 'Macaulay Culkin'
Legitimately the finest poetry collection to have been published in the last ~5 years.

>> No.7015053

Tolkien
> overrated
LoTR, The Hobbit

> underrated
Silmarillion

>> No.7015104

>>7014981
>>7014983
yeah notes is more overrated than c&p, idiot is the true dark horse

>> No.7015130

>>7014985

Shakespeare

>overrated
Macbeth
>underrated
Henry IV, part 2

Same theme too, the tragedy instigated by excessive ambition.

>> No.7015192

>>7015037
Like you read much poetry

>> No.7015195

Salinger

O: Catcher in the Rye

U: Franny and Zooey

>> No.7015209

Philip K. Dick

Overrated: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Underrated: VALIS (underread at least)

>> No.7015211

>>7014430
>Stephen King

>Overrated
The Stand

>Underrated
The long walk

>> No.7015235

>>7015209
Do Androids Dream is one of his best, though. I'd say that what's overrated is The Man In The High Castle.

>> No.7015278

Charles Dickens
Overrated - David Copperfield
Underrated - Dombey & Son

>> No.7016129

>>7014430
>Molière

>Overrated
Tartuffe

>Underrated
The Misanthrope

>Shakespeare

>Overrated
King Lear

>Underrated
The Tempest

>Kant

>Overrated
Critique of pure reason

>Underrated
Metaphysics of Morals

>> No.7016158

>>7014430
Tolstoy

>over
War & peace (in-depth look at rich people in russia

>under
Hadji Murat

>> No.7016358

>>7014430
Dusty
> over
notes from the underground
> under
house of the dead

>> No.7016369

>>7014430
Camus
>overrated
The Stranger
>underrated
The Plague

>> No.7016416

Alan Moore

>overrated
Killing Joke
>underrated
Halo Jones

Shakespeare
>overrated
Othello
>underrated
Titus Andronicus

>> No.7016445

>>7014430
Dostoyevsky
>overrated
another vote for Notes from Underground. It's praised and taken at face value too much
>underrated
Demons

>> No.7016468

Flaubert
Over: Madame Bovary
Under: temptation of saint Anthony

>> No.7017541

>>7014430
Herbert Quain
>overrated
The Secret Mirror
>underrated
The God of the Labyrinth