Amazon.co.uk: 11 overrated books

11 overrated books
A Listmania! list by lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland)

1. The Fountainhead (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ayn Rand

The list author says:
	"What idiot made this incoherent tract in favour of hunky architects a Penguin Classic?"

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2. The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Derrida

The list author says:
	"Derrida had some fairly interesting ideas, but you won't find any of them by dragging yourself through this interminable volume"

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3. The Modern Irish Novel: The Irish Novel After 1945 by Rudiger Imhof

The list author says:
	"Unintentionally hilarious attempt to assess the state of modern Irish fiction by someone who can't even write in English"

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4. For Marx (Radical Thinkers) by Louis Althusser

The list author says:
	"If this book has anything to do with the liberation of the working classes, then I'm Joseph Stalin"

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5. Evolution as a Religion (Routledge Classics) by Mary Midgley

The list author says:
	"Incoherent philosopher accuses scientists of incoherence. Not very helpful"

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6. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray

The list author says:
	"Dyspeptic professor of economics who can't be bothered to make serious arguments rambling on and on...and on...about how everything's going bad. Just what the world needed"

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7. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom

The list author says:
	"Bloom's 'theory' can be easily disproved by any bright undergraduate"

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8. Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

The list author says:
	"Again, I don't see how much of a theory it is if you can knock it down in five minutes"

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9. Anti-Oedipus (Continuum Impacts) (Continuum Impacts): Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze

The list author says:
	"Thesis: sex good, crazy good. There, now you don't need to read the damn thing"

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(3 customer reviews)

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10. America by Jean Baudrillard

The list author says:
	"A coffee-table book for philosophy departments everywhere"

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11. The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

The list author says:
	"It was drivel when it was only a magazine article, and making it into a book means that it's just bigger drivel"

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(22 customer reviews)

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