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03-04-2003, 02:37 AM | #1 |
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The "worst book in the English language"
Wow. This is almost unbelievable.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Feb11.html After I read that interview, I wasn't sure if this was all a big cosmic joke or not - but I did some digging around, and supposedly, that novel's real. It sounds so wretchedly bad I almost want to buy it. I think that's why the author agreed to such a scathing interview in the first place...
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03-05-2003, 02:02 AM | #2 |
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The interview seems almost unreal, like a parody of an interview or something.
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03-06-2003, 04:43 AM | #3 |
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What a joke! Think I read as much as I would be able to stomach of the book just in that interview. IP - if you do buy it, please let us know just how horrendous it really is
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03-15-2003, 02:37 PM | #4 |
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What kinda lousy idiot this guy Burrows must be.
i'd like to read the shi* he writes, so that if i ever write a book i will remmember what it shudnt be
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04-05-2003, 10:24 AM | #5 |
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Political books written by old people don't get up there on the charts.
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04-09-2003, 03:41 PM | #6 |
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Ugh. That sounds really, really, awful.
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04-09-2003, 10:25 PM | #7 |
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burrows sounds like he doesnt even kno he is being mocked
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04-12-2003, 11:12 AM | #8 |
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Ick! That sounds positively TERRIBLE! I wouldn't wanna read THAT book!
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04-12-2003, 05:23 PM | #9 |
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It's kind of funny actually The interview I mean
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04-12-2003, 09:26 PM | #10 |
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I sort of pity the author. Granted his book sounds absolutely awful but still, publishing an interview like that is a rather cruel thing to do to him.
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04-23-2003, 09:47 PM | #11 |
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hmmm... I thought Moby Dick was the worst book written in the English language.
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04-29-2003, 01:50 PM | #12 |
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Here's a review from closer to home:
http://www.purpleonline.com/021113/news/5.html You know, it worked for Ayn Rand...
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05-03-2003, 11:44 AM | #15 |
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My goodness. How amusing.
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06-02-2003, 10:53 PM | #17 |
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Eh, it sounds like it could be a real interview. But why on earth was it published in the first place? Besides the 400 people that thought it worth buying, who actually thought they'd make money by publishing this book if it's so bad?
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