What's the most average book you've read?

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Make room! Make room!

Anything by Steinbeck.

amsterdam - ian mcewan

a solid meh+

Similarly, Saturday by Ian McEwan.

correct

As far as ""literature"" goes, it's gotta be those from most mid-to-late-Twentieth Century American novelists who didn't go full pomo and either practiced a kind of ersatz aestheticism (here I'm thinking most of Updike's books, Bellow at his worst, and ironically most of the so-called minimalists in vogue in the 1970s and '80s), provincialism (Updike again, Cheever, most Faulkner/O'Connor/Penn Warren southern U.S. writers), or "impressionistic realism" i.e. impressionistic psychodrama, narcissistic sensation novel, or whatever. Philip Roth is pretty guilty of this, although I think he has written some quality books. Mailer and Wolfe are probably the most heinous in this respect.
As for the most average overall, probably one of Wolfe's drab satire, i.e., I am Charlotte Simmons, a literal pre-Boomer's take on hookup culture and collegiate politics. Bobbie Ann Mason's simultaneously desolate/bleak and naively insipid homespun-minimalist tableaux of her economically devastated home region--western Kentucky. Or Updike's senile post-Rabbit at Rest output that is mostly about old men trying to get laid.

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The Master and Margarita

leave this board now

stoner.

he's the one true king of mediocre novels and novellas

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catcher in the rye

Of a Boy, Sonya Hartnett

such a dull book, also very sad that it’s adored with such fervour. i think it’s merely the russian allure. its literary predecessors put it to shame

The Bell Jar or Slaughterhouse-five, probably the latter

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>Faulkner
Okay, retard

The tartar steppe

A book by Miika Nousiainen (Juurihoito), I doubt it's been translated into English. I read it because I was spending time at my parents' and needed something to kill time with. Basically it's a dumb feel-good book with incredible shoehorned "messages" about all the generic feel-good things you could think about but I can't say I really disliked reading it either because the plot was interesting enough. It was entertaining but very forgettable and generic. I can't say it was good but I can't find anything particularly offensive about it.

What does most average even mean? Can something that is average be more/less average than something else that is average? Would it mean that one of the two things is closest to the mathematical average?

> generic single-word reviews by a plebpaper on covers
when will they stop doing it?

Actually that was a mistake user, I meant most POST-Faulkner/O'Connor/Penn Warren Southern writers, who are derivative and corncobby as fuck.

Hunger - Knut Hamsun