4.24 avg rating — 597 ratings

"Do not read any of the Steven Farley books. Just stop at The Black Stallion and the The Girl. I've been a fan of the original series since I was about 8 years old -- now I'm a LOT older than 8 -- and this book just sucks sweaty purple donkey balls in comparison to the original series."

4.23 avg rating — 4,867 ratings

3.64 avg rating — 8,483 ratings

"A tremendous and tedious disappointment. If you like the News from Lake Wobegon reports from Prairie Home Companion, you will hate this"

3.65 avg rating — 78,059 ratings

"Oh, for fuck's sake ..."

3.71 avg rating — 700 ratings

"Tamar Myers should have stopped the series at 14. Without a major character from the first 14 books, there is no real conflict. Also, Meyers seems to be just phoning this in. She and her narrator get downright nasty as opposed to funny. In the book's front matter, there is a rude note from Myers asking that fans please stop sending her title suggestions because "they're really not very funny." I stopped reading this about 50 pages in because I just couldn't be bothered. This book made me (and my mother) give up on this series."

3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings

"Nothing but fear-peddling. Beyond ridiculous. Should be considered "fiction.""

3.84 avg rating — 693,846 ratings

"If "The Shack" by William P. Young was a human being, it would be in desperate need of a laxative. The only literary value of this book is to show how NOT to write a book. It may also be pertinent to history classes showing what kind of books reflected the American popular taste of 2007 to 2009."

4.46 avg rating — 81,556 ratings

"Jesus talking like Deepak Chopra? Hang up!"

3.62 avg rating — 48 ratings

"Absolutely awful. The advice here can potentially harm or even kill your dog. Use this only for kindling."

4.32 avg rating — 1,451 ratings

"This is the WORST book EVER. Great big gorgeous watercolors of dead animals. Moral of the story -- everybody's gotta die. And this is for kids?"

4.10 avg rating — 1,310 ratings

""No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney." (Bloom County)"

3.75 avg rating — 596 ratings

"I gave up at page three when I came to yet another long unpronounceable "alien" word (a long string of consonants.) I did not realize this was the second book in a series. Even so, I have interest in reading ANY of this series."

4.44 avg rating — 1,537 ratings

"This book is one of the reasons that I am now an atheist. What a bunch of crap! Should be filed under "fiction.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,952 ratings

"I gave up on this about page 50. Life is too short to read bad books."

3.95 avg rating — 8,031 ratings

"Poorly organized book. There are a ton of footnotes. Some are boldfaced and underlines, which Wright explains that these footnotes MUST be read. What's the point of that? Just stick it in the damn text. The shift from large print to itty-bitty print literally gave me headaches, so I had to abandon this book after about 200 pages. Also, Wright cannot make up his mind who he's writing for -- the layperson or professional historian. What a disappointment!"

3.70 avg rating — 6,255 ratings

"Although considered a crucial book in the development of the emergent church, Brian McLaren’s book is filled with convoluted sentences, lack of organization and perhaps the world’s worst subtitle."

4.21 avg rating — 136 ratings

"Blatant rip-off and does not cover every breed recognized in America.
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3.74 avg rating — 15,876 ratings

"I gave up about about page 50 because this was so bad."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"One of the most depressing books ever written. Everything goes horribly wrong for Johnny and the winged horse in a land that is a cross between Narnia and the Third Reich. And this is supposed to be for kids?"

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings

"I stopped about page 50. Life is too short. There are many far more readable (and far more comprehensible) books about mental illness than to try and struggle through this one."

3.94 avg rating — 45,360 ratings

"I gave up on this when Don Juan began mutilating lizards."

3.91 avg rating — 5,588 ratings

"So bad I didn't bother finishing it. What the hell, Armstrong? You just decide to phone it in one day?"

3.48 avg rating — 368 ratings

"Awful book. The title makes no sense when you are finished the book. Despite the title and the cover, the book has next to nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes and/or Watson. Everyone speaks alike and takes things oh-so-stiff-upper-lip. The only likable character is the dog. I'm never reading Gladys Mitchell again."

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

"Oh, for fuck's sake ..."

3.98 avg rating — 292,974 ratings

"Only good for swatting flies. I hate throwing books out, but I was more than satisfied to throw Rick Warren's garbage into the recycling bin."

4.04 avg rating — 30,550 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 1,892,513 ratings

3.97 avg rating — 1,941,971 ratings

"I gave up at page 50. Life is too short."

2.86 avg rating — 87 ratings

"Horrendously bad. The jokes wear thin really fast. It boggles the mind how crap like this gets published."

3.47 avg rating — 266 ratings

"An incredible load of crap. Only worth reading so you can see how NOT to write a Holmes pastiche. How do books this bad get published? Did no one at the publishing house realize just how ridiculously bad this manuscript was? There are better authors unheralded that self-publish."