deborah: Kirkus Reviews: OM NOM NOM BRAINS (kirkus)
[personal profile] deborah
Personally, I've always felt that Kirkus Reviews' reputation for being mean is undeserved. On the other hand, I have to say that I absolutely adore our willingness to tell it like it is. Although in this case, no reviewer commentary was necessary, clearly.

Date: 2010-10-19 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] jordanwillow
i... wow. WOW.

Date: 2010-10-23 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] jordanwillow
I AGREE!

Date: 2010-11-03 05:34 am (UTC)
tahnan: It's pretty much me, really. (Default)
From: [personal profile] tahnan
The real crime here is that there's no sample chapter online. I'm feeling inspired...

Date: 2010-11-03 05:54 am (UTC)
tahnan: It's pretty much me, really. (Default)
From: [personal profile] tahnan
...wait hold on did I say no sample chapter online? Because actually...

Date: 2010-10-19 03:27 am (UTC)
rantingnerd: The Stupid, it Burns (stupiditburns)
From: [personal profile] rantingnerd
The stupid, it burns. (Hilary Duff, not Kirkus, obviously.)

Date: 2010-10-23 03:30 pm (UTC)
rantingnerd: Earth-Moon (Default)
From: [personal profile] rantingnerd
The whole gestalt.

Date: 2010-10-19 05:56 am (UTC)
sanguinity: woodcut by M.C. Escher, "Snakes" (Default)
From: [personal profile] sanguinity
That last quote is ew ew ew ew ew ew.

Date: 2010-10-19 03:37 pm (UTC)
kumquatmay: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kumquatmay
my favorite kirkus quote is still the one for The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (I should also note, it's the favorite of everyone in my department as well):
"A publishing event that demands an apology to the industry, all children and the trees that gave their lives. "

Though this recent one is pretty good (for A Girl, A Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills):
"That novel, however, saddled with the author's determination to shoehorn in thinly drawn stand-ins for Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes, as well as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and an iMovie version of the Claudius-poisons-King-Hamlet play (starring rowdy Australians), is a hot mess."

Date: 2010-10-20 03:28 am (UTC)
libskrat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] libskrat
Go Kirkus. *still chuckling and cringing*

Date: 2010-10-20 11:23 am (UTC)
lady_schrapnell: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lady_schrapnell
Best review in a long time! :D Nothing could be as effective in this case as a "show it like it is". *shudders*

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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.

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