Thread: Silliness Quiz
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Old 01-29-2011, 07:28 PM   #582
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A two-part question:

1. An early review of what book described it as "balderdash", and dismissed its fans with "certain people--especially, perhaps, in Britain--have a lifelong appetite for juvenile trash"?

2. What's the link between my answer to Natasha's question and the answer to this one? (Hint: more than one degree of separation.)
Part 1 was correctly answered by Stitchawl: it's "The Lord of the Rings" (the excoriating review is by Edmund Wilson).

Part 2 hint: the link is specifically to my answer to Natasha's question.
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