The experiment--find the worst review of your favourite books:
A Fine Balance: I didn't find this book to be crushingly depressing at all, but the 1-star reviewers on amazon disagree with me -- "This book is a piece of trash. I've never read about so much death and destruction. Someone dies, gets raped, or castrated on every other page. At times, instead of making me sympathetic to the plight of the severely unfortunate characters in the book, I found myself laughing, and waiting for the poor fools to fall into their next hilarious misfortune (again, always only a few pages away)."
Pride & Prejudice: I think this review is by Mr T -- "Like others, I really did want to like this book. I tried and tried to read it, but it was all nonsensical jibber-jabber. I may try again, but doubt it. It's torture!"
Adrian Mole -- "This book was so hard to believe, and I'm easy. It's the first book I plan to thorw in the garbage. I thought about writing in the front cover to warn people how bad it is, but then decided against it. It goes nowhere. Why is it a hit?!?!"
The Evolution of Jane -- "Was I disappointed. I thought the characters uninteresting and boring (glad I wasn't on that trip,) and the stuff on Darwin didactic and boring.If I wanted to know about evolution I'd go to Darwin direct andIf I wanted to know about lost friendship I think I'd search the Internet."
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- "I had to read this in 7th grade for English, and I could barley stay awake for it. It takes the character about 5 pages to do something as simple as pour themselves a glass of milk." Well I admit I think the movies are better than the book.
The Doomsday Book -- "Initially I enjoyed the historical part of the book but there was absolutely no dramatic tension to be found anywhere."
Couldn't find 1 star reviews for:
- me fave Georgette Heyers
- my fave Sarah Caudwell (The Sirens Sang of Murder)
- only 1 for a Jeeves book, but the person liked other Jeeves books
- Kate Ross' mysteries
- Jane Langton's Homer Kelley mysteries
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