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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

a fun experiment

1. go to amazon.com
2. search for a book that you absolutely love
3. read the reviews of people who gave it a lowly single-star rating

i found this about breakfast of champions: "[kurt vonnegut] writing is so pretentious, self-referential, and nihilistic that you can't help but despise vonnegut personally and despise even more the intellectuals and professors who praise him religiously."

more single-star reviews of masterpeices can be found here, where i was introduced to this activity.

2 comments:

marta said...

regarding "little women": LITTLE WOMEN BY LOUSY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT( I THINK THAT'S HER NAME ) IS THE UTMOST WORST BOOK YOU WILL EVER READ IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM GOING TO CALL lOUISA lOUSY... BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT DESCRIBES THIS BOOK. lOUSY WRITES A LOUSY 1800'S BOOK THAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BORING!! THIS BOOK IS VERY INFORMATIVE AND IS NOOO FUN TO READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yikes.

klhp said...

Lousy Louisa May Alcott sounds like she's a Garbage Pail Kid. Remember those? :)