The Most Overrated Book Series Ever!

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Fifty Shades of Grey is badly written porn and is not original either. It is the same as the film 9 1/2 Weeks staring Kim Bassinger and Mickey Rourke from 1987. I cannot believe millions of people bought the book. It is embarrassingly bad.

The Hunger Games is ok but the last book was rubbish.

Twilight saga droned on for far too long. It only deserved to be one book not five.

Harry Potter - only read the first book.

I love the original Dune novels by Frank Herbert (Dune through Chapter House Dune), but Brian Herbert has basically written trash in the name of a masterpiece, and so much of it that it is obvious that he is just milking a cash cow now .

I read the first book in Twilight and almost wanted to cry about the nonsensical plot, the bland protragonists, the blatant disregard of vampire physiology. Oh, and the usage of the word 'perfect' practically EVERY. OTHER. FREAKING. SENTENCE.

The first Hunger Games novel I enjoyed a lot, so I wouldn't personally consider it over-rated. But that could just be because I'm a sucker for dystopian novels and novels that portray girls as competent, intelligent fighters.

I have never read 50 Shades of Gray but know people who have and who stated that it was one of the worst things they ever read.

Never read Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, so I can't say anything about them.

I kind of feel like 50 Shades and Twilight should be removed from the list entirely because everybody thinks they're awful anyway.

I think they are all overrated. But 50 shades of gray is just dumb not sure why anyone would want to read that stuff. Twilight is way to overrated as well never got into it. Harry Potter same thing never got into it.
Lord of the rings and Hunger Games are at least well done in movie form, but still think it's overrated, though I think out of all of them I like Lord of the Rings the best.

They're only overrated by certain demographics, like teenage girls and mothers. I simply thought Twilight was boring; nothing about it stuck out or was memorable.

For me, I most prefer The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in book form. Or their adaptations that were done before the likes of Peter Jackson or Ralph Bakshi came along. The BBC radio series of The Lord of the Rings from the 1980s is a must to hear. It's well voice acted, the special effects are awesome, and Ian Holme voices Frodo. There was a radio adaptation of The Hobbit, and while its good it also has deafening nasal sounds. Also, I prefer the original animated Hobbit film from the 70s out of all adaptations. Bakshi's Lord of the Rings has great ideas, but it's very much MST3K material.

I owe my liking Tolkien's works to me being exposed to it gradually by degrees. The radio series and the Hobbit cartoon were my first introductions (as well as the Bakshi film), and when I read the books on my own, I found them to be even richer.

I don't see Tolkien as dry. I see his style of storytelling as being like a particular herbal root, in rich damp soil surrounded by moss, various fungi growths, and old stones. Believe me, Tolkien was aiming to be different from not only traditional fairy stories, but from much of the surviving Anglo-Saxon poetry which he studied and which he felt didn't measure up to same epic brilliance as Beowulf. Of course, to make things more interesting, he decided to make heroes out of short Celtic creatures who do nothing but eat. There's much about Tolkien's books which many subsequent books of this generation can barely grasp. Those who I think count as rivals include Frank Herbert, H.P. Lovecraft, and T.H. White... Though I have yet to read The Worm of Ourobos and Gormenghast.

In an effort to avoid doing any real work, I downloaded the complete LOTR cycle to my kindle. I'm only to the point of the big conference in Rivendell. The writing gets a bit tedious there, but up to that point, I thought it was pretty good. I actually like Tolkien's general writing style, and appreciate his world building to a point...

I mostly read dark fantasy. If you want to see dry and monotonous try Robert E. Howard... I love his stories, but he over uses certain adjectives and stock phrases and his tone can get really pompous at times.

in my opinion Lord of the Rings was boring, Hunger Games would have been better if it hadn't gotten so political, Harry Potter is brill, 50 shades is rubbish (you want decent porn? try watching yaoi) and twillight both books and film were boring, slow and didn't even have a decent romantic element