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No I am not calling it generic. I'm just saying the book is so iconic and so copied that coming to it for the first time today feels like I've already read books and played video games that are like this. It's not a fault of the work, it's just that it's hard for it to feel fresh today.
Basically the "Seinfeld is unfunny" trope
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny