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[Wainscott, NY] : Pushcart Press, c1986.
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The history of literaure is replete with foolish, mistaken, shallow, and downrighthostile reviews of books we now approach with awe. Here is the first-ever writtn selection of such reviews- highlights of nasty attacks on authors and on works that became classics.
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LibraryThing member kaulsu
I guess I thought reading scathing reviews would be humorous: I didn't find them so. Of course, it is interesting to think that Swift's Gulliver's Travels was not appreciated, or to feel vindicated that the bane of my 10th grade English class, "The Old Man in the Sea" was panned, but all in all I'm
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sorry I also purchased the sequel. Stay tuned. Show Less
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Rotten Reviews a Literary Companion by Bill Henderson (Hardcover)