Dan Brown’s next book, that everybody’s going to buy anyway, and again defend their choice, just as they defended his last penny dreadful!
Canada used to have more than its fair share of overrated material, particularly prior to about the mid-1990s, when for some reason CanLit started to be not too bad. Amongst the Canadian novels not worth the ink used to gush about them: The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (possibly the second most useless book I have ever read), and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.
Everything they made me read in high school. I left mistakenly hating all novels.