Sunday, October 21, 2012

10 More Scathing Early Reviews of Classic Novels


Well, we can never get enough of poking fun at the unduly critical, can we? Last week, we shared fifteen scathing early reviews of classic novels, and some of you pitched in with some of your own favorites. We took a few of your suggestions, both here and at Metafilter, added a few more of our own, and put together a second list of a few more critics who got it wrong, this time hating on Hemingway, Tolkien, Steinbeck and more. Now don’t get us wrong — everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to judge the past from the future. Click through to read ten more scathing early reviews of books we now consider to be classics, and chuckle over how you know better (or admit that you secretly agree) in the comments.



“Instead of being the epic of the sun also rising on a lost generation, [The Sun Also Rises is] a cock-and-bull story about a whole lot of tourists getting drunk.” — John Dos Passos in the New Masses, 1926

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