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The following collection turned out more overwhelmingly negative than I'd planned! The excoriating reviews are easier to find.
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Comments on various works of literature. One point each for the work and the commenter.
1. "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of [main character] without laughing."
2. "How to read [title]? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, [author] will have to do."
3. "In form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that"
4. "It really won't do, you know! I mean to say: 'Nymphs and their Ways, The Love-Life of a Faun'. Doesn't he know what he's talking about?"
5. "One of the few English novels written for grown-up people"
6. "Juvenile trash"
7. "I would not have had that reference made to [the author]'s preposterous book (I have read it) for any money. I blush to join the Shameful lick-spittle Chorus."
8. "Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron; here is a book that will break your heart"
9. "An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers—but no glance of a bright vivid physiognomy—no open country—no fresh air—no blue hill—no bonny beck."
10. "The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
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