3.71 avg rating — 71,728 ratings

"I like Salman Rushdie, but his writing is too dense for me. After each chapter, I feel like I've read an entire novel."

3.97 avg rating — 132,849 ratings

"See The Satanic Verses above."

4.09 avg rating — 200,021 ratings

"I was kind of into this book despite the terrible side story in the footnotes. But I lost it during the celebrity interview portion, which felt too fan fic for me."

4.02 avg rating — 566,728 ratings

"This was just bad. If you're going to write an oral history, you shouldn't have each character speak in the same voice."

4.58 avg rating — 1,039,147 ratings

"After they destroy the ring (sorry, spoiler alert) the revelry just seems to go on and on. I gave up with about a hundred pages to go."

3.98 avg rating — 75,331 ratings

"I think I got about a hundred pages into this when I decided that I just wasn't interested in what was happening in the story."

3.93 avg rating — 46,556 ratings

"Here's another one I enjoyed reading, but I just couldn't grasp onto the plot, and it was too dense."

4.06 avg rating — 7,384 ratings

"Who knew you could write a completely boring book about the history of punk rock?"