When you, the reader, sit down to analyze a book, you must remember that whatever you choose to say is subjective. It's your opinion and you're entitled to it. Even if it means trashing a widely acknowledged author.

To give everyone the courage to speak their mind, the Facebook page Haters of Goodreads are sharing some of the funniest reviews that have appeared on the literary website.

Calling The Catcher in the Rye "the most overrated 'classic' of all time", refusing to finish Swann's Way due to Proust "discussing the smell of his chamber pot after having eaten asparagus"... It's all there!

65 Times People Hated Popular Books And Left The Funniest Reviews On Goodreads

#1 Crime And Punishment

#2 Of Mice And Men

#3 Rousseau, The Social Contract

#4 Plato, Phaedrus

#5 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

#6 The Bible

#7 Romeo And Juliet

#8 Swann's Way

#9 A Brief History Of Time, By Stephen Hawking

#10 G.w.f. Hegel, "Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right"

#11 The Catcher In The Rye

#12 The Metamorphosis

#13 Daniel C. Dennett, "Consciousness Explained"

#14 Moby Dick

#15 On Liberty, By John Stuart Mill

#16 Murakami, 1q84

#17 The Death Of Tragedy (Hamlet)

#18 Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil

#19 Žižek, The Sublime Object Of Ideology

#20 Herbert Marcuse, "One-Dimensional Man: Studies In The Ideology Of Advanced Industrial Society"

#21 Freud, Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis

#22 Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground

#23 Kant, Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals

#24 The Gay Science

#25 Hate Lvls 1, 2 & 3 The Great Gatsby

#26 Capital Vol. I

#27 Danielewski, House Of Leaves

#28 Moby Dick

#29 Foucault, Madness & Civilization

#30 The Cloud Of Unknowing

#31 The Old Man And The Sea

#32 Nick Land

#33 Why Are All The Gravity's Rainbow Negative Book Reviews Sooooo Weird

#34 Frankenstein

#35 We Have Always Lived In The Castle, By Shirley Jackson

#36 Ballard

#37 Plato, Parmenides

#38 The Tractatus

#39 Meditations On First Philosophy

#40 Pamela (By Samuel Richardson)

#41 Review

#42 Kant, Critique Of Practical Reason

#43 We Have Never Been Modern

#44 Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation

#45 Burroughs

#46 I Hate It When Books Have Words

#47 Mother Night

#48 Thomas Pynchon, The Crying Of Lot 49

#49 Eric Hobsbawm, Age Of Revolutions

#50 Society Of The Spectacle

#51 Emerson, Self-Reliance And Other Essays

#52 Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy

#53 Howard Zinn, A Peoples History Of The United States

#54 Marx, Capital Vol. 2

#55 St. Augustine, Confessions

#56 Man's Search For Meaning

#57 Back With Some More Hobbes

#58 Hobbes, Leviathan

#59 Sartre, Being And Nothingness

#60 To Kill A Mockingbird

#61 Carl Jung, Man And His Symbols

#62 Plato, Complete Works

#63 A Deep Look Inside The Decaying Mind Of An Anti-Communist (What Is To Be Done?)

#64 Martin Heidegger, "Being And Time"

#65 Paulo Freire, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

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