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瘩铣馅监使咒包构考手祈恕剧啼厘缨瘁绥栈戍滋页填珠锑纱遗讣峨绚幼圾13条最尖刻书评课件13条最尖刻书评课件;Top 13 acerbic book reviews;Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts. Jeffrey Robinson ;Bad reviews are a fact of literary life, even for the most successful writers. Take Steig Larsson -- perhaps the hottest novelist of recent years, his books have nevertheless had to weather some cold-blooded attacks. The New York Times calls The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo “improbable” among other things. But the really tough one comes from Susan Cohen: This is easily one of the worst books I’ve ever read. And remember I’ve read…” (John Grisham) ;But if authors and readers think reviews can be mean today, they are nothing compared to the vitriolic war of words carried out during a time when it seems we had thicker hides. What we call a classic now was once an up-and-coming writers new novel – and fair game for reviewers with sharpened knives. No wonder that in Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot a war of insults culminates with Crritic! ;Here are some examples of critics doing their gleeful worst – and literary lights who dont miss a chance to take a swipe at a colleague. ;The Cardinals Mistress ;In response to reading Benito Mussolinis The Cardinals Mistress, Dorothy Parker said, this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ;Dorothy Parker ;Henry James ;Of Henry James, Mark Twain said, Once youve put one of his books down, you simply cant pick it up again. ;George Meredith ;Of George Meredith, Oscar Wilde said, as a writer he has mastered everything except language; as a novelist he can do everything except tell a story; as an artist he is everything except articulate . ;Oscar Wilde ;Herman Melville ;Moby Dick was largely a dud when it was published, and most of the critics were scathing. One reviewer dismissed Melvilles magnum opus as sheer moonstruck lunacy. ;But the amount of utter trash in the volume is almost infinite -- trash of conception , execution, dialogue and sen