Somerset: Balzac feels a little overrated to me. The classic novels, they seem datedmn tan stories are amazingalthough my son's reading em now,. and hes lovenum, which shocks me. I read em all when i was younger but they don't hold up for iwould never want to go back and read a farewell to arms or sun also rise. But his short stories ore still, i think, very good.