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Originally Posted by sgoldin
Joe, some of the best reviews ever written were for stinkers. Dorothy Parker made a career of it. "This is not a book to be put aside lightly. It should be thrown, and with great force."
Or, for a play starring Katharine Hepburn: "Miss Hepburn ran the emotional gamut from A to B."
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Ha! I think I've read that somewhere! I gotta say though, people do tend to make sure people know just how bad a book is more than just how good one is. Maybe there is something to it. I'm getting a sort of reputation for being hard on authors, which can be good or bad I guess.