Is On the Road the most overrated novel ever?

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still from the film On the Road
Sam Riley as Sal Paradise and Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty in a still from Walter Salles's 2012 film On the Road Photograph: PR

Is Jack Kerouac's tedious On the Road the most overrated novel of all time? If not, what is?

Iain Macniven, Glasgow

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