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is, when bad, like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

 can always be summed up thusly: People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

 sometimes takes so long to write that one never gets around to reading the book.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. Groucho Marx

is the act of reading out of a book the qualities that one has first read into it.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

is an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to

is a brief but informative essay that spares readers the ordeal of digesting an actual book.

A brief but informative essay that spares readers the ordeal of digesting an actual book.

is rarely easily dismissed by a writer. Writers fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

is often an exercise in self-aggrandizement --- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

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book review