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Flame & Acclaim: The Critics Sound Off
"Hmmmm, more like something my year 8 son would write for an assignment he wouldn't take terribly seriously. Appalling punctuation, split infinitives everywhere,self-conscious dialogue. Just remember, before you break the rules, you must first KNOW them little boy. I would probably suggest you first study 'English Composition 101' before you undertake anything longer than a page." "One of the funniest books I have never read." "The most highly acclaimed novel to hit Ethiopian shores in decades." "What absolut rubbish!" "This sprawling saga of two people who do nothing but bitch, bitch, bitch is more fun than trying to make dowels out of cedar kindling. And I should know, I've been trying for years. I'd give it two thumbs up if one of them hadn't been cut off by a Jiffy saw while making a tie rack for dad when I was in grade nine. Should I go on?" "A cockroach could have written a better book!" "A cleansing experience." "I shot my horse after reading this tripe!" "Un libro ripugnante scritto da uno stronso cazzo!" "Why do books always have so much sex? Why can't people just do nice things? Like my boy John..." "Living in the O is the funniest thing since George W. Bush Sr puked on the Japanese Prime Minister." "George W. Bush Jr's choking on a pretzel while his dogs looked on is the funniest thing since Living in the O." "If you like books that go nowhere while sapping you of all hope, then Living in the O is for you." "Not since Feudor Bic fleshed out the oily natures of Whitey and Blacky Head in his novel of festering sibling purulence, "The Brothers Yucky," has there appeared a novel of such pustular excrescence. Run for your life!" |