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[bililoquy]

Asking questions is fun! The next one's more positive: what is the most underrated book you've read

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[ydd]

I'ven't read enough books to really pick one; everything I've read is well loved, either by the masses or by the majority of those who've read it.

[gram_negative]

Stephen King's Desperation. Not only does the book have some great characters and a disturbing, well-wrought aesthetic that is unique to its setting (the midwestern desert), and a whole underlying mythology that the book never even fully explores, it's a friggin' fabulous essay on King's tough-love view of Christianity, and manages to be that without subsuming the vivid horror story on the surface.

Because anyone can claim faith in God, but not everyone can keep that faith when their own melting, demon-possessed mother is chasing them down streets crawling with scorpions.

[saraliz986]

Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev. Amazing. It's about an Hasidic Jewish artist living in the Bronx in the 40s and 50s who struggles to reconcile his faith with his art. It's about the conflict between religion and artistic calling. It's incredibly inspiring, but not well known, even though Chaim Potok is an incredible author. Everything I've read by him has been wonderful.

My most overrated book is To Kill a Mockingbird. Granted, I read it years and years ago and if I were to re-read it today I'm sure it would have a lot more meaning for me. But I didn't enjoy it, and it didn't strike me as the great literary masterpiece everyone makes it out to be.

[coffebean04]

Ishmael, My Ishmael, and The Story of B by Daniel Quinn.

Three books that probably had more to do with shaping my life and beliefs than other text I've read, including the Bible/Torah.