Classic books summed up in hilarious one-line reviews

It was the best review, it was the worst review. Or, in these particular cases, they were the shortest, strangest, and / or just the most direct of them.

We’ve rounded up the funniest and weirdest classic book reviews we could find on GoodReads – the home of some of the most cutting-edge, brutal, and succinct views.

Now we’re reconsidering all of our favorite high school readings. (Above all Catcher in the rye.)

Enjoy!

Anna karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Guess Tolstoy never got the memo?

As i die, William Faulkner

In a way, they are not …wrong?

1984 (nineteen eighty-four), George Orwell

Big Brother is not happy with either.

Catcher in the rye, JD Salinger

Alright, ouch.

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hey, whatever works.

Great expectations, Charles Dickens

Ah, OK. This tracks.

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Something is rotten in the state of the review section.

Jane eyre, Charlotte Brontë

It doesn’t matter what floats on your boat, Cristin.

Little woman, Louisa May Alcott

We can ship with all Taylor Swift classic crossover lit chick.

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

It’s not even a bad summary.

Moby dick, Herman Melville

Well. This is factually correct.

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia woolf

She is trying to buy them for herself, Nate!

Of mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Evergreen Review. Reliable. Five stars.

Portrait of the artist as a young man, James Joyce

Moocoow is literally the 14th word in the book, then the 22nd. Nathan must have been happy.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Duly noted.

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Extremely fair analysis.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

Another solid analysis. Children these days! (Or … a century ago.)

The old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Yeah, and say Moby dickit is Ishmael for righteousness overcome the whale? It doesn’t happen, Matt!

Dorian Gray’s photo, Oscar Wilde

Hey, you don’t know.

The foreigner, Albert Camus

I will definitely use it to get out of conversations. “Do you know who you remind me of?” Did you read The stranger? “

The Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Ah, a bittersweet conclusion: Contemporary and classics collide.

And scene.