Many critics have thrown up their hands over what one early reviewer called a "brilliantly stupid piece of work."

Early 2000 viewers of the film appear to mirror early reviewers.

(An early reviewer had mentioned that "a case might be made" for such a reading.)

Austen scholars have pointed out that these early reviewers did not know what to make of her works.

Many of Merton's early reviewers have made explicit comparisons.

An early reviewer said it was more a series of essays than a novel.

He's talked for a total of thirty-one chapters, a length some early reviewers attacked as unbelievable.

While some early reviewers took his statements at face value, many did not.

According to an early British reviewer, the work is set at a moment when "the ruin of the raft may be said to be complete".

Not all of the early reviewers took a negative view, however.