This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Sid ZiffTag: wit bad-reviews book humorist misattributed-dorothy-parker
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar WildeTag: writing aliteracy bad-reviews self-publishing
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses HadasTag: books literary-criticism time bad-reviews classic-insult irony
So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.
Tag: bad-reviews
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
Mark TwainTag: bad-reviews jane-austen
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: writing literary-criticism bad-reviews critics reviewers
He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
(writing about US President Warren G. Harding)
Tag: literary-criticism bad-reviews political-commentary
To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
Mark TwainTag: bad-reviews jane-austen
Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
Erica JongTag: literary-criticism bad-reviews sexism
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Dorothy ParkerTag: humor bad-reviews classic-insult katharine-hepburn drama-critic
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