One-Star Book Reviews

(Congrats on the Pulitzer, btw).

“shakespeare is so like eratic“

“learned nothing good.”

"I get it. Life was terrible in Italy in the 1950s. Lots of terrible things happened and then it ended.”

“The structure of the novel is essentially Jubal Harshaw relentlessly stating the obvious: Sex is fun, and handsome aliens should not be publicly stoned for having sex. Yes, we agree.”

“Holden Caulfield learns to masturbate…enthusiastically.“

“Who cares about Bob Dylan? Oh, yeah, everyone but me.“

“It starts off good and interesting, but by the end it's like an hour long version of Charlton Heston yelling ‘You Maniacs! You blew it up!’”

“Too many words. Just look at the title, it’s twice as long as it needs to be.“

“We get it, Charlotte Bronte. You hate Catholics and you hate French people.”

“Twenty minutes of reading her in a sitting consistently made me despair of all society.“

“A little part of me died when I read this book, and I’m not being melodramatic.”

“much longer than 'Fifty Shades of Grey’”