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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.


Dorothy Parker


#bad-reviews #book #humorist #wit #bad

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.


Dorothy Parker


#fancy #raisins #terrible #wordplay #bad

NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kellogg's.


Stacia Kane


#reviews #authority

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.


Scott Lynch


#reviews #twitter #twitter

Even ivory towers need central heating.


Breyten Breytenbach


#new-york-times-review #poetry #satire #satire

Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wrong opinions.” “Then sir, you may say so. The ruder you are, the more the editors will be delighted.” “But it is my own opinions which I wish to make better known, not other people's.” “Ah, but, sir,” said Lascelles, “it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.” “Hmm,” said Mr Norrell thoughtfully, “you may be right. But, no. It would seem as if I were lending support to what ought never to have been published in the first place.


Susanna Clarke


#publishing #reviews #satire #satire

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.


Martin Amis


#don-quixote #literary-criticism #miguel-de-cervantes #literary-criticism

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.


Veronica Rossi


#love #romance #love

There's ALWAYS a book.


Cleolinda Jones


#movies

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.


Anatoli Boukreev


#better #clothed #comparable #day #expedition