3.76 avg rating — 137,977 ratings

".................self explanatory. This and Moby Dick's nautical terms no one knows unless you ride boats yourself are hard as hell to even get a quarter of the way through."

4.20 avg rating — 5,472,439 ratings

"I finished it, but it took, 4 days, I think? When Winston Smith is given Emanuel Goldstein's book via O'Brien, I swear that is one of the toughest sections in novel history to get through. Ya'll know what I'm talkin' about who've read it."

3.98 avg rating — 491,172 ratings

"A nice shout out here, top 10 books ever for me, but the pacing can be sludge-like, via Toni being the second hardest writer to read my eyes have had the strained pleasure of pain to view complex prose and top-notch, top 5 or so metaphor masters since 1950 in the world of letters."