3.94 avg rating — 11,986 ratings

"Year 8 English lit. Shudder."

3.75 avg rating — 18,468 ratings

"So short and yet so very dull. The plot is summarized in the first chapter of Barchester Towers, which is great fun."

3.72 avg rating — 14,640 ratings

"Maybe in the next life."

3.59 avg rating — 3,552 ratings

"Those 8-pt newspaper sections - yeah, not gonna happen."

4.35 avg rating — 827,872 ratings

"Damn, this book is long, he thought. Damn, he said. Damn. "

3.88 avg rating — 421 ratings

"I've made it halfway twice - does that count as finishing? Remains a real mystery to me."

4.10 avg rating — 22,212 ratings

"His collected notebooks, Philosophical Investigations, are great; this one is quite painful."

3.54 avg rating — 587 ratings

"In terms of Modernism, Stein did it all first (well, most of it); the thing she forgot was the fun."

3.46 avg rating — 10,648 ratings

"Like The Warden, this is super-short but dull as a country ramble on a grey, rainy day."