really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,873,838 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 — 85,868 ratings

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

3.47 avg rating — 6,105 ratings

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

4.34 avg rating — 190,293 ratings

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

3.46 avg rating — 14,340 ratings

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

3.62 avg rating — 34,101 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 — 3,508,344 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 — 23,215 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 — 438,964 ratings

4.15 avg rating — 3,531,070 ratings

3.85 avg rating — 202,344 ratings

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

4.01 avg rating — 273,656 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."