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Letter "B" » book review
«Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.»
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
«Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
book review, conditioned, cut down, Evening News, holier-than-thou, holier, holy book, Last Judgment, pages, reverence, review, Second Coming, subject to, The Last Judgment, The New York, The Second Coming
«I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Prejudice,
Safety
| Keywords:
book review, reviewing
«REVIEW, v.t.To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it.»
«Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Book of Job, book review, exceptionally, indiscriminate, inventing, irritating, praising, prolonged, reactions, reviewing, spontaneous, thankless, trash
«What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.»
«One cannot review a bad book without showing off.»
«Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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applied, associations, black book, black magic, book review, capture, disagreeable, floating, free association, implying, off-putting, precise, prejudicial, reviewer, reviewers, reviews, unimportant
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