To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most successful and loved books of all time but on Goodreads, it has received 54,580 ​seering 1-star reviews including one that comments, ‘The author does a completely inadequate job of explaining how to kill a mockingbird.’
Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick received 34,337 such negative reviews including this one: ‘Melville strikes me as one of those people who would corner you at a party and talk incessantly about whaling…so you finally have to pretend to go to the bathroom to get away from this crazy old man, only that he follows you and keeps talking to you.’
