really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,868,132 ratings

"I found the whole concept (once I had wrapped my aching brain around it) kind of creepy. Who wants to meet their future wife at age 6? And naked?"

3.48 avg rating — 84,395 ratings

"OK, I don't hate it, but the length! The lack of discernible plot! "

3.47 avg rating — 6,084 ratings

"A book about a shopping centre. Enough said."

4.34 avg rating — 187,538 ratings

"Cardboard characters arranged to make points rather than interact in any meaningful way. "

3.46 avg rating — 14,166 ratings

"A book which never seemed to start. Or end actually."

3.62 avg rating — 33,990 ratings

"I read it in Norwegian, which probably didn't help. It filled me with a deep feeling of "so what"."

4.18 avg rating — 3,484,420 ratings

"Also read it in Norwegian, but that shouldn't have mattered as it was originally written in Swedish. Suffered huge suspension of disbelief failure when hero is seduced by woman putting a foot on his crotch"

4.10 avg rating — 22,824 ratings

"I know lots of people love her work, but for me, Hustvedt's books have all the page turning quality of a brick."

3.97 avg rating — 437,475 ratings

4.15 avg rating — 3,496,299 ratings

3.85 avg rating — 200,671 ratings

"A family of white people have white people problems. "

4.01 avg rating — 271,467 ratings

"Mitchell is a fluent and imaginative writer, but seriously the theme of this book - a mash up of Buddhism and Nietzschean Will to Power - is facile and undercooked."