Fyi, I don’t want to start a rant but more like open up a discussion so that I finally get it. How come “The Midnight Library” is hyped so much???
I saw so many people call this “the best book ever” yet to me it seems to be the most mediocre book out there. I did get the key idea of that the author wanted to portray, still, I’m not sure I got to understand WHY it is so praised.
So to anyone who’s read it – could you explain your reasoning and what impressed you there? I wanted to enjoy it as much as the others yet I’m just left confused and disappointed…
by Zymmmet
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> I saw so many people call this “the best book ever” yet to me it seems to be the most mediocre book out there.
In fairness, I haven’t heard anyone call it the best book ever, but you’re kind of touching on the issue here. In order for a book to sell as well as *The Midnight Library* did, and to achieve popularity across a broad spectrum of readers, what you might think of as mediocrity is pretty much a requirement. It’s accessible, it’s digestible, it’s speculative and yet also rooted in the everyday and, above all given when it was published, it’s positive and life-affirming. People like those things.