encore! 5 most underrated? and, er, overrated?

[Tony Elias]

the qualification that these change on perhaps a daily basis would not be
out of place, with the exception of number one for each list:

Underrated
1.Good Morning Midnight, Jean Rhys

2. Memoirs of my nervous illness, Daniel Paul Schreber

3.anything by Robert Hass

4.The Plains, Gerald Murnane

5. most of Terence McKenna's writings


and, at the risk of weeks of flaming, 

Overrated

1.Anything by Kathy Acker (whose wholesale theft of WS Burroughs material is
amazing, more for the ignorance of reviews which regard these "revolutionary
innovations" as her own

2.Anything by Charles Bukowski (no qualifying explanations needed)

3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I really enjoyed this book, but geeez!)

4. Johnny Got his Gun, (maybe I came to it expecting more than it could 
                                        offer)

5. Hamlet (no one can deny the genius, yes yes, but as far as the
Shakespearean ouvre is concerned, it has become an unwarranted totem-text)