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Let's have a retarded review thread.

Go to Amazon or wherever and find the dumbest reviews for whatever book you please.

Pic related: in reference to Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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>>8162943
Make one with a women next time, and say that it can only be women reviewers. then we can have a women hate thread
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Was gonna start one of these threads myself. Will post a few.
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>>8162996
Jesus christ, what a terrible person
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>>8162996
I swear to god, 'character development' is the biggest meme of all time.
Quite literally babby's first film critique.
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>>8163004
This post makes Gene Wolfe seem like high literature.
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>>8163034
gene wolfe definitely extends past genre fiction
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Only review on amazon.ca for John Hakwes' "Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade"
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>>8163004
Christ that made me angry and I haven't even read any Gene Wolfe
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>>8163040
Hardly, and calling his prose flowery and beautiful is an obscene stretch.
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a grandma, on Taipei
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>>8163008
People hardly develop in real life, why would anyone criticize a work for being realistic?
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>>8163060
>not a good sign
Indeed
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>>8163076
Because they cannot into critical thinking.
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>>8163065
fabulous
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This review triggered me.
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>>8163060
>James Joyce couldn't write a more incomprehensible or rambling novel.
heh
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>>8163083
What the actual fuck? It's depressing to know that there are people out there that genuinely don't recognize beauty when they are exposed to it.
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>>8163102
BOI DO I HAVE SOME NEWS 4 U
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anyone have the Goodreads review where they ask for a "trigger-free" version of Metamorphoses? I saw it here last time but forgot to save it.
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I like when people try to critique a book without even understanding it the smallest amount.
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>>8163083
That's not even a review, that's straight up a fucking book report, I recognize that shitty format that teachers teach, teachedly leaving with bumfucked paragraphs with no meaning.
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>>8163205
lol wtf, I second this request
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>>8163083
>>8163268
Yep, I recognized that bullshit right away. why the fuck is it taught like that?
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>>8163076
Real life as experienced by most people is boring as fuck.
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Why must we have these threads. It's like how the Jews must always remind themselves of the Holocaust.
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>>8163041
This one's very funny.
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>>8163102
kek'd
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once saw a legitimate 1 star review of Suttree that basically said she didn't like the audiobook because it still wasn't making sense to her. don't remember where this was though :C
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>>8163060
this cant be real can it?
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>>8163658
>210 likes
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>>8164048
>the M. Night Shamalyan of sonnets.
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>Funspiracy against the Human Race.jpg
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>>8163062
well i liked some parts of the book of the new sun and disliked others. especially he fails some of the insert stories, some are pretty, like that one which i quote below, but others are just so meh, like that one which is a mix of a borges' short story and the legend of minotaur or that one which is a mix of mowgli and the legend of romulus and remus

>>8163089
really, what indecipherable poetry she found there?

>Her hair was long, her limbs were white,
>And fair she was and free;
>And in the wind she went as light
>As leaf of linden-tree.

such indecipherable so wow; i bet if she read something like stevenson's "heather ale" she would be perplexed forever

>>8163658
at least she could feel sorry for his intended...

>It is said that as a man pushes his boat out over the shingle, the sound the bottom makes grating on the stones is my wife, my children, my children, my wife.
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>>8163060
>He quotes Mark Twain
This triggers me more than it should
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>>8164048
>Stop fucking telling me to breed!
The other reviews are clearly from idiots but this shit legitimately makes me mad
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>>8164048
I thought like, the entire point of sonnets was the twist. Like, I remember reading some french ones for fun and they had twists too.
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There was a time when people who wrote a lot actually had something to say, you can argue that the internet is a bad development when it comes to things like this
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>>8166775
yep. the "volta"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta_(literature)#Importance_of_the_Volta
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>>8163083
>"X" is a Y written/composed/reported by Z..."
>"[Protagonist] does such, but [Antagonist] reacts to it.
>There are many different characters [...]. However, ---
>This story has many themes. One of the main themes [...]

I am speechless, this is some sort of plague.
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>>8168493
This is the wrong generation speaking, how may I help you?
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>>8162943
not a review of a book but someone talking about e-readers
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>>8163268
>be in secondary high school (not an english country)
>enrolled into this school this very year
>have 2 hours to write a short essay that circled around the "600", a period we studied so using what we have done I can "conjecture" an educated opinion.
>nobody understood they had to work with what they knew to make up an opinion and instead talked about the period
>the Teacher had to correct the work on the basis of another kind of essay
Worth it.
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>>8163060
>Mr. Math Expert
>doesn't understand Portrait
interesting
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>>8168744
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Do how does one write a good review? I'm curious, because I'd like to write good/lit/erary reviews on good reads to help out my fellow /lit/izens.

I don't know about you guys but I always read the reviews you guys post there (my good reads friend list is entirely from 4chan)
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>>8163060
>Mark Twain said it right, "'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't (read that as "shouldn't") read."
>don't (read that as "shouldn't")

I didn't expect anything in this thread to make me mad, but this did
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>>8168542
that plague is the american method of teaching literature.
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>>8169028

I didn't have any good literature teachers in both south america and europe, so I guess that's a pandemia at this point.
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>>8162943
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>>8163102
So funny.
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Check out Orphans of Chaos on Goodreads.
It's almost seems like a feminist book club organized to destroy its reputation or something.
First 10 reviews are angry feminists ranting and it's beautiful.
I haven't read it, but this makes it so fucking appealing.
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