4.26 avg rating — 6,890,228 ratings

"Not to be too flippant...but what possibly could you not like about this book. I just can't dignify the accusation that it sucks with a response. Makes me politely angry like Marvin The Martian in a Bugs Bunny cartoon to even think about it...don't make me open a can of Yosemite Sam!"

4.20 avg rating — 5,467,076 ratings

"Undeniably a prophetic masterpiece! To not like this book is to deny its power and essentially live its warning. Although, if it scared you enough to say it's terrible I could maybe understand. Only,the results are the same. Wake up! It's way past 1984!"

4.02 avg rating — 4,556,240 ratings

"LIKEWISE!!! (See 1984)"

4.67 avg rating — 17,643 ratings

"Every Calvin & Hobbes book, EVERY SINGLE ONE! Is nothing but a sheer unadulterated joy to read."

4.44 avg rating — 639,364 ratings

"God god! Really? Steinbeck? Hatred of the movie should not be taken out on the book people!"

3.90 avg rating — 1,429,755 ratings

"Really? Man turns into a giant bug and you hate it? I think this makes you a pest."

3.30 avg rating — 110,105 ratings

"This book was so well written that actual veterans of the Civil War were shocked to find out that Crane never saw a battle. What possibly could anyone else have to criticize about this if it fooled them?"

4.27 avg rating — 948,241 ratings

"The movie was fun but schlocky and a little on the low rent side of things but the book is a GRADE-A satirical masterpiece on the entire genre and nothing but a sheer joy to read!"

4.54 avg rating — 731,125 ratings

"Other than truly being an epic masterpiece written by an Oxford professor who essentially spent all of his life writing the stories, genealogies and even entire written languages with proper syntax and grammatical rules...what could possibly be the problem with this book. No faeries or unicorns?"

4.02 avg rating — 650,502 ratings

"Yeah, vampire books suck, but this one has a haunted realism that brought enormous heart to it in the character of Claudia, who was inspired by the real life loss of the author's daughter. I didn't even know this fact until after I read it and I could still recognize the sincerity of it...all the others she wrote really suck."

4.30 avg rating — 4,457,969 ratings

"Nerdy, yes but a necessary companion to the full box set of being a nerd...& I'm damned proud of it."

3.90 avg rating — 2,055,628 ratings

"Alright, it's uneven and sloppily written in places and I could concede to a degree its place among the worst. Only, these exact reasons are also why it is endeared to me. She wasn't allowed to be a writer and kept the fact hidden. She wrote this in frenzied spurts and tucked it under the blotter pad when anyone walked in on her. In a small way this caused the writing to almost in certain sense to be a forerunner to Kerouac. She didn't really have the luxury of editing and wrote in a frenzied fever...albeit with no jazz hipster lingo, but still..."

4.29 avg rating — 1,081,824 ratings

"Yes, more than few lengthy digressions from the plot in the form of monologues that may end up feeling more like admonishing lectures but overall there is nothing like the mad Russians when it comes to epic drama and Fyodor is my unapologetic favorite. An abridged edition could solve so of its flow but that would be a true CRIME!"

3.95 avg rating — 395,005 ratings

"If nothing else, the mass puking scene alone redeems the entire book."

3.84 avg rating — 302,756 ratings

"Natassja Kinksi futilely chasing a chicken in the movie version is not reason enough to despise a book you haven't truly read."

4.03 avg rating — 1,403,169 ratings

"Yeah, okay. A bit on the disconnected emotionless side of things and not for everyone...only what do you want from existential philosophic prose? A musical comedy with a plot?"

3.84 avg rating — 76,045 ratings

"Hardy's bitter attack upon the institution of marriage naturally upset a lot of people, then and now. He stopped writing novels due to the negative criticism...are you happy now? If anything, Stephen King wad right about the moment of absolute shock and horror of this book somewhere in the middle of it. It was a complete gamechanger...and sort of anticlimactic afterwards. Completely understandable why it ruffles more than a few feathers. "

3.90 avg rating — 2,838,080 ratings

"Another Steinbeck? HOW!!!?"

2.64 avg rating — 749 ratings

"Undeniably bad...but that's actually the whole point. Not liking this book is another matter. To do so is like hating the movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space." "

4.21 avg rating — 2,827 ratings

"The dream is over...the Beatles are never coming back. Get over it and stop harassing this lovely lady for something she didn't do. This book is full of humor, which apparently isn't shared by some. The joke's sadly upon them."