Excerpts from Amazon.com's book reviewers:
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
Author: C.S. Lewis
“I bought these books to have something nice to read to my grandkids. I had to stop, however, because the books are nothing more than advertisements for “Turkish Delight,” a candy popular in the U.K. The whole point of buying books for my grandkids was to give them a break from advertising, and here (throughout) are ads for this “Turkish Delight”! How much money is this Mr. Lewis getting from the Cadbury’s chocolate company anyway? This man must be laughing to the bank.”
The Lord of the Rings (1954)
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
“The book is not readable because of the overuse of adverbs.”
The Morning News has excerpts from reviews of many of the novels from Time's 100-best list.
admit it Jeremy, you made up that first one (remember Prov. 19:5)
Posted by: nick at December 2, 2005 05:40 PMand just when you thought people couldn't get more dense...wow.
Posted by: olivia at December 5, 2005 12:41 PMsay, did you happen to catch Ryan Adams on Letterman last night singing "come pick me up?" so brutally good.
Posted by: dorkwad at December 6, 2005 08:33 PMmissed it, dude. i was practicing my hobo strut.
Posted by: jeremy at December 6, 2005 11:44 PM