It'd be one thing if it were a well-written, well-argued negative review of the book, but that review was mostly summary and very little analysis of what made it a poor novel.
It's not supposed to be a scholarly article.
Just sayin'.
And I'll be "just sayin'" that for a newspaper article, it was poorly written. I read hundreds of newspaper and magazine reviews and that was among the worst I've read of that length in quite some time. At least the NYT review was better-structured, even if I disagreed with its points.
If I had submitted something like that for the paying markets that I've submitted reviews in the past, mine should (would?) have been rejected, just like that review should have been subjected to more editing/revision.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- 14/09/2009 07:50:28 AM
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USA Today LAMBASTED this novel. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 07:42:28 PM
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That was a rather poor review of the book
- 15/09/2009 09:59:27 PM
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It's a newspaper review... it's supposed to summarize and maybe analyze a little.
- 17/09/2009 02:07:37 AM
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It's still a poorly done review, even for a newspaper review.
- 17/09/2009 04:28:15 PM
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Hmmm, seems strange to me that you both would independently come to that conclusion.
- 17/09/2009 08:10:11 PM
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I know the difference
- 17/09/2009 05:55:46 PM
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You should apply at USA Today. Show 'em a thing or two!
- 17/09/2009 08:08:39 PM
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Why not Publishers Weekly?
- 17/09/2009 10:24:57 PM
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Well, I have a big penis.
- 18/09/2009 04:42:41 AM
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Junk Comparing Competition. I can see I have accomplished everything I wanted with this review 
- 18/09/2009 06:05:41 AM
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- 18/09/2009 06:05:41 AM
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That's basically what it comes down to whenever anyone disagrees with Larry.
- 20/09/2009 12:39:32 AM
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Well, I didn't like The Grapes of Wrath or The Old Man and the Sea...
- 23/09/2009 05:37:14 PM
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