>>24557518
A lot of "great classic literature" has incredibly low rankings on Goodreads

I also notice much literature often part of school curricula like R&J and Gatsby tend to get worse reviews

Some non-review-bombed literature, for contrast:
>Pride and Prejudice - 4.29
>Les Mis - 4.21
>1984 - 4.20
>War and Peace - 4.17
>100 Years of Solitude - 4.12
>Hamlet - 4.02
>Dead Souls - 3.98
>Iliad - 3.92
>Wuthering Heights - 3.90
>Frankenstein - 3.89
>20000 Leagues - 3.88
>Treasure Island - 3.85
>Huck Finn - 3.83
>Catcher in the Rye - 3.80

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is 3.68; Moll Flanders by the same author is 3.51

The poems Rape of Lucrece by Shakespeare and Rape of the Lock by Pope are 3.56 and 3.54 respectively, probably since they've got "rape" in their titles

Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter and House of 7 Gables are 3.44 and 3.45 respectively (Waverley by Scott is 3.44 too)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is 3.43 (Nigger of the Narcissus is 3.66 despite having nigger in its title)

The Civil War novel Red Badge of Courage is well-reviewed... poorly, at 108k and 3.30

(Mein Kampf is 3.17 for reference)

The famous Spanish picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes is 3.09 and has only 3k ratings

Pamela by Samuel Richardson (often considered the first novel, though Tale of Genji from the 1000s is another contender) is only 2.76