Vice President JD Vance’s new book was released this week to reviews from professional critics that did not hold back – with The Wall Street Journal arguing it was filled with “egregious sloppiness.”
The amateur critics took it even further, flooding the book’s page on the Barnes & Noble website with one-star reviews.
“This book literally reads like the garbage can I'm getting ready to throw it into,” reads a one-star review from a verified reviewer named “Kelly P.,” as reported by Newsweek on Friday. “There's no way JD actually wrote this. I also find it comical that the Pope doesn't even recognize him as a Catholic.”
Of the 29 reviews of the book, titled "Communion," 25 rated it with one star, and four rated it with five stars.
“JD’s take on faith and religion is at odds with his behavior and speech in his everyday life,” reads another one-star review from verified reviewer “Karen S.” “I don’t recommend this book. Glad to have public libraries so I didn’t have to buy this book to see what he had to say.”
And verified reviewer “Evelyn B.” expressed hope that Vance’s book would “end up on a list of far-right propaganda for future generations” as a reminder of what they called the current “embarrassing era of American politics.”
“Poorly written unbelievable trash written by the most vile and despised humans on this earth,” they wrote. “His claim to Catholicism is a meager grab at trying to convey worthiness in a world where the denomination has severely rejected him and the Pope himself denounces his fascist agenda.”
The online reviews for Vance’s new book have been so negative that at least two online book-selling websites have “limited or suspended” them, including Amazon and Goodreads, according to the Daily Beast.