Biblioklep published a collection of one-star reviews for Moby Dick on Amazon. A few of my favorites:
"First of all, classiflying it as fiction is a mistake. Probably a good 60% of the book is non-fiction – chapter after chapter dedicated to every imaginable detail of the biology of the whale and every imaginable nuance of whaling."
"I am quite the fan of stories which involve man eating sea creatures, such as Jaws. Moby Dick is nothing compared to such classics, I fear."
"Honestly, Over 400 pages devoted to killing a whale because it ate your hand? Come on."
"What is the whales motivation? You dont know."
"No wonder Melville flopped as a writter."
"I love literatur just as much as the next guy but we must face it 100 years or so ago American literature was reall weak and lagging from the rest of the world, perhaps now they’re starting to catch up with writers like Ann Rice and them."
"The only people who like this book are english teachers who derive a feeling of moral superiority from forcing others to read this incredibly bad novel."
Well, I can't assert any moral superiority because when we had to read Moby Dick in my English class, I identified the shortest chapter, read only that one, and wrote an essay on how it was a microcosm of the entire book, my understanding of which I owed to Cliff Notes.
Sorry, Mr. Goff! (I guess it did show some creativity...)
