[Editorial note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (I loved Middlemarch, by the way). I’ve preserved the reviewers’ original punctuation and spelling. More one-star Amazon reviews.].
too literary
No… just.. no
fancy words
a driveling tale
verbage is archaic
too many characters
characters seem fake
author of dubious character
Could not relate to characters
All of the characters are flawed
goes off on philosophical tangents
the sentences run on and on and on
I’m an avid reader and love many of the classics
a maze of literary, historical and mythological references
author whose moral frame of reference is so small-minded
Middlemarch is about a small town called Middlemarch
you won’t be able to fit it in your purse
This is trash, and bordering on fraud
the language should be readable
she can beat you into submission
This book was a book club read
BIG, FREAKING PLOT HOLE
I enjoy English literature
perpetual pontification
This is a Huge book
Sooooo wordy
100s of pages
Good ghod
lacks wit
Yuk
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