# Miss the point of a book, movie or play **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-the-point-of-a-book-movie-or-play/778370 "2017-01-28T05:42:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Plutonium\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Plutonium_Kid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-the-point-of-a-book-movie-or-play/778370/41 "2017-01-31T07:11:08Z")
Upton Sinclair’s \*The Jungle \*did a superb job of exposing the horrible things the food industry did to the nation’s food supply in the early twentieth century, but he added a lot of unnecessary material about factory workers which distracts readers from the novel’s main point. What’s the fuss about Aldous Huxley’s _Brave New World_? Why do people call it a brilliant satire and a disturbing prophecy? After all, this is pretty much the kind of world we all want. I sat down to read William Golding’s _The Lord of the Flies_ with great anticipation. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a silly story about some boys who go camping and let things get out of hand. It was not at all a horror novel about a Satanic cult, and the publisher should be ashamed of misrepresenting the book with that title. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-the-point-of-a-book-movie-or-play/778370/42 "2017-01-31T15:01:58Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > _Hamlet_ was hackneyed. Too many cliches. Casablanca was hackneyed. Too many cliches. Airplane! was hackneyed. Too many cliches. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-the-point-of-a-book-movie-or-play/778370.md?page=2)