Classics Trashed: One-Star Reviews of Literary Greats

     Its the ultimate cut:  a one-star review on Amazon.com.  But what if the books getting trashed are on Time's list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present?  The Morning News published an article called "Lone Star Statements" that reprinted sad one-star reviews of some literary greats.  You can read the entire article here, but here are some of the best of the worst reviews that are too good (or bad) not to be shared:

The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)

“The book is not readable because of the overuse of adverbs.”

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)

“While the story did have a great moral to go along with it, it was about dirt! Dirt and migrating. Dirt and migrating and more dirt.”

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
“It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)

“Here’s the first half of the book: ‘We had dinner and a few drinks. We went to a cafe and talked and had some drinks. We ate dinner and had a few drinks. Dinner. Drinks. More dinner. More drinks. We took a cab here (or there) in Paris and had some drinks, and maybe we danced and flirted and talked sh*t about somebody. More dinner. More drinks. I love you, I hate you, maybe you should come up to my room, no you can’t’… I flipped through the second half of the book a day or two later and saw the words ‘dinner’ and ‘drinks’ on nearly every page and figured it wasn’t worth the risk.”

     Actually, the Hemingway review is spot on but I love the book!