3.69 avg rating — 407,090 ratings

"A hilarious Erroll Flynn-like swashbuckler but in the vein of a great capitalist hero. Please show me a single shadow of one of these great men anywhere in time or space. A cuppla fine but somewhat misguided premises turned into a mammoth tome of comic book proportions. Almost as if by sheer volume of words alone you could convince people of the truth of a few short statements that would barely fill a pamphlet. "

3.80 avg rating — 3,895,748 ratings

"Outdated and irrelevant at this point in time. Teenage angst can be mined far better than this. Besides, the protagonist is an unlikeable prick with whom I've no empathy nor sympathy for. He's not all that special or unique and I'm pretty sure I went to high school with at least a dozen or more people just like him. Futhermore, this book's legends and associations with murderers makes for all the more reason to just let it slip away into obscurity."

4.29 avg rating — 1,628,173 ratings

"Dry, musty and exceedingly boring. It made a great movie though, right? Ha!"

3.89 avg rating — 250,075 ratings

"Numbers among some of the most overwrought and ridiculously impenetrable prose I've ever had the misfortune to read."

3.86 avg rating — 196,111 ratings

"So abstract and disconnected as to leave me completely indifferent as to what this story could possibly be about. I do know, but now I just don't care."

3.89 avg rating — 298,261 ratings

"There's more myth and legend behind this book than any real talent or merit that must somehow be the only reason people to keep this thing still around."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 759,337 ratings

"Lurid, inaccurate and overwrought. Shameful how a good story like this could be ruined at the hands of its author. That takes true talent."

3.86 avg rating — 29,074 ratings

"I love Toni, but this one was soooo poetic as to get in the way of what may actually trying to be said here. Tripping over itself to be more poignant that it is."

4.14 avg rating — 395,724 ratings

"Fantastic story but its prose is so obtuse in the strongest sense of the word that ultimately I became extremely disappointed because I wanted to love this book so much that now I'm angry about it and cannot read anything by this author ever again. "