3.74 avg rating — 118 ratings

"Silly, plodding, and not remotely scary. This is the book that finally got me skipping pages indiscriminately just to finish it. "

3.53 avg rating — 25,351 ratings

"My first time with James Patterson was like accidentally losing your virginity to a dead animal and not realising until the next morning cause you were so drunk. "

3.67 avg rating — 2,861,614 ratings

"In a way, this is a literary wonder: it has, hands down, the worst writing I have ever seen. To put it like E.L. James might have, I read it with a god-this-fucking-book-is-awful-why-did-I-promise-to-lend-it-to-someone-after-I've-finished-it-now-I-can't-tear-it-to-pieces-in-rage expression on my face. And what's with the "holy f***s"? Oh my, indeed. "

3.45 avg rating — 2,559 ratings

"Perhaps it was an act of God that Laymon was struck down before finishing this book. Too bad they published the unfinished product anyway. "

3.92 avg rating — 31,772 ratings

"I knew this was going to suck going in. In the words of Dr Ian Malcolm: "Boy, do I hate being right all the time"."

4.09 avg rating — 6,444 ratings

"This does exactly what a Danielle Steele book is meant to do. Completely suck and slap you in the face for trying to be open to all genres of fiction. "

3.82 avg rating — 935,122 ratings

"Andrea gives Whatsername from '50 Shades of Grey' a run for her money in being the most insufferable female protagonist in popular fiction. "

4.39 avg rating — 1,013 ratings

"The one thing I like about this atrociously superficial commentary of Exodus is that it proves I do not love Christian books solely for their being Christian. This was Christian and I hated it. "

3.16 avg rating — 7,468 ratings

"A remarkably unfunny satire of 'The Lord of the Rings', whose writers have the gall to call it brilliant themselves. "

3.45 avg rating — 2,447 ratings

"A random, incoherent horror novel. One of many. Don't bother. "

3.42 avg rating — 14,806 ratings

"For those solely drawn by the macabre allure of such an evil-sounding book (as I was), this is not satisfying. Really it's just a manual to being a self-absorbed hedonist and making your church-going mother cry. "

3.14 avg rating — 902 ratings

"Another random horror book that makes no sense and isn't scary. Next. "

3.84 avg rating — 421 ratings

"A crappy novelisation of a mediocre horror film. I don't even know why I read it in the first place. "

3.75 avg rating — 35,915 ratings

"Dean Koontz at his worst, which I assure you is not pretty. "

3.84 avg rating — 2,204 ratings

"As cringey as anything by Danielle Steel, but with an excess of characters winking at each other (a certain pet-peeve of mine). Luckily, when my OCD came close to ruining my life, it inadvertently saved me from finishing this book. I chucked it in the compactor at work, part of a fruitless ritual to escape the hell that was my mind. "

3.24 avg rating — 892 ratings

"Blatty is my favourite write. He wrote 'The Exorcist', possibly the greatest horror novel of all time. I guess nobody's perfect though. This later novel was uninspired trash. "

3.92 avg rating — 3,560,631 ratings

"Greatly overrated, and greatly underrated, depending on who you talk to. Only one side can be right, and I am of the humble opinion I happen to be on it. "

3.13 avg rating — 826 ratings

"Another shitty horror novel. Join the club. "

3.48 avg rating — 12,959 ratings

"Sometimes I think I was a bit harsh on this one. After all, it seems to be one I can't easily forget. But I also remember thinking it was rubbish at the time. "

3.76 avg rating — 654 ratings

"The only thing I have in common with the disgusting people this book is written for is that I, too, like sex. Keep the politics out of it, you triggered f*****g morons. "

2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

"Another random horror book that sucks. This time it's about witches. "

3.71 avg rating — 18,010 ratings

"It's about as good as the film, which from me is an insult. "

3.49 avg rating — 662 ratings

"A college professor has wild sex with a hot female student. Gotta love the originality at least. "

3.71 avg rating — 421 ratings

"A smut book written by a horny old man, disguised as a "serious" recount of alien coverups. "

3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings

"I liked Mark Latham until I read this book. This book actually made me slightly less conservative. To think this prick was almost prime minister of Australia ... "

3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings

"I chuckled twice. Just slightly. Otherwise I shook my head and listened to this shit on triple-speed just to get through it. "

3.77 avg rating — 8,433 ratings

"My wife and I had to read this for a course we did leading up to the birth of our son. It amounts to a load of new-age nonsense that potentially could distress many women if, God forbid, they screamed when they squeezed their baby out of their vagina because they weren't visualising their hammock on the beach well enough and have probably traumatised the child for life. "