Posts Tagged ‘one-star’
“There is nothing so American as our national parks”*…
Oh so many more– Yellowstone, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Death Valley, to name a few– at “I Can’t Stop Reading One-Star Yelp Reviews of National Parks.”
[image above: Greg Heartsfield/Flickr
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
As we as we rethink the first “R” in “R and R,” we might spare a thought for Martha; she died on this date in 1914. As she was the last known passenger pigeon, her death meant the extinction of the species.
(De-extinction efforts are underway.)
Martha
“From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review”*…
“This was the absolute second worst book I’ve ever read (the worst being Hotel For Dogs).”
Further to our old friends at You Can’t Please Everyone, a Tumblr devoted to “reviews of classic books, culled from the internet’s think tank”: One-Star Book Reviews.
“HOW MANY BOOKS HAS SHE WRITTEN ANYWAY HUNDREDS RIGHT ? WAY TOO MANY I TELL YOU — STOP THIS WOMAN”
“First of all, the whole thing is almost all dialogue.”
More critical cruelty at One-Star Book Reviews.
* Isaac Asimov
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As we get in touch with our inner John Simon, we might recall that it was on his date in 1911 that Thomas Mann visited the Lido in Venice and hatched the idea for Death in Venice. Mann’s diaries, unsealed in 1975, tell of his struggles with his bisexuality– struggles reflected in his work most prominently through the obsession of the elderly writer Aschenbach, for the 14-year-old Polish boy Tadzio in the novella. It was for this work, along with Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, that Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
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