"List of the Lost" - first Brazilian review in A Escotilha

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""Full of obsessions, Morrissey's first novel is just a pop niilism"

this is probably very true depending on whether or not they mean nihilism as i dont know the brazilian language very well. i dont know about the just part but that could just be the man or women reviewing. at times i imagine moz has some very fatalistic nihilistic views on life
 
Anonymous said:
""Full of obsessions, Morrissey's first novel is just a pop niilism"

this is probably very true depending on whether or not they mean nihilism as i dont know the brazilian language very well.
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Better than your Latin, though.
 
Johnny Barleycorn said:
Better than your Latin, though.
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beyond a phrase or two its my wife who knows how to read latin. same with brazilian i dont know very much about it. she claimed it helped her with medical terms her first school was notre dam so she learned it there. i just imagine moz to at times be full of vanitas so to speak
 
DavidK said:
In before the Homers claim that this remote South American newspaper is jumping on the negative review bandwagon sweeping the Internet.

In before someone claims that critics panned Hemingway too; Yes, the Old Man and the Sea was a novella, but the comparisons end there.

In before someone tells me to read it for myself. I could have spent $12 to see Gigli in the theatre too, but thankfully I listened t0 the masses.
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All I ask is that someone with objectivity review List Of The Lost. Not some fan who wanted a book full of lyrics. Not some failed writer who hates the fact a rock star got to publish a book, while they didn't get to. Just someone who can read it for what it is.
 
Anonymous said:
All I ask is that someone with objectivity review List Of The Lost. Not some fan who wanted a book full of lyrics. Not some failed writer who hates the fact a rock star got to publish a book, while they didn't get to. Just someone who can read it for what it is.
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Are you going to keep asking this until you get the answer you want? Who exactly do you want to review it to give you what you want? A lot of people who are paid to review books did this. Sometimes they like books. Sometimes they don't. Almost all of them thought it was a stack of shit. So who exactly are you waiting to review it? Some specific names please, since you seem to have an idea of the kind of person you want.
 
I wonder if the Atlantic new yorker or harpers will do a review a like and respect those for fhere oterafy reviews
 
Uncleskinny said:
Are you going to keep asking this until you get the answer you want? Who exactly do you want to review it to give you what you want? A lot of people who are paid to review books did this. Sometimes they like books. Sometimes they don't. Almost all of them thought it was a stack of shit. So who exactly are you waiting to review it? Some specific names please, since you seem to have an idea of the kind of person you want.
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What you have happening here is something I talk about all the time. It's called "a snowball effect", where things keep building and building. Pretty soon, it's just negativity. Not good for creativity. If some positive reviews get written, it will force these critics to actually have to look at things in a more balanced manner. I think you'd see much different reviews then.
 
Anonymous said:
What you have happening here is something I talk about all the time. It's called "a snowball effect", where things keep building and building. Pretty soon, it's just negativity. Not good for creativity. If some positive reviews get written, it will force these critics to actually have to look at things in a more balanced manner. I think you'd see much different reviews then.
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Dreamland horse-shit. Let's weigh them up in a few months time. You will be hugely wrong. I guarantee it 100%. You find a load of positive reviews, weigh them against the negative, and if you're right, I will give £100 to Compassion In World Farming. A firm promise. Remember - animals will suffer if you don't deliver. And - please do say who you'd like to review it. There must be someone you have in mind. You wouldn't have suggested there was otherwise; so who will do it?
 
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Uncleskinny said:
Dreamland horse-shit. Let's weigh them up in a few months time. You will be hugely wrong. I guarantee it 100%. You find a load of positive reviews, weigh them against the negative, and if you're right, I will give £100 to Compassion In World Farming. A firm promise. Remember - animals will suffer if you don't deliver. And - please do say who you'd like to review it. There must be someone you have in mind. You wouldn't have suggested there was otherwise; so who will do it?
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The real question is, who would be left to review List Of The Lost after this onslaught of negativity? I do have a few names in mind, but as soon as I would name them, they would be placed under an undeserved pressure. That's what I don't want. What we need is someone with a clean slate and no misconceived notions. You're right. Let's give it some time. And in the meantime, keep your checkbook ready.
 
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The real question is, who would be left to review List Of The Lost after this onslaught of negativity? I do have a few names in mind, but as soon as I would name them, they would be placed under an undeserved pressure.
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EDITOR: An anonymous internet poster has mentioned your name as possible reviewer for Morrissey's new book.

REVIEWER: Sorry, but I can't take the undeserved pressure. I need some time off our I'll throw myself out of the window.
 
Uncleskinny said:
Dreamland horse-shit. Let's weigh them up in a few months time. You will be hugely wrong. I guarantee it 100%. You find a load of positive reviews, weigh them against the negative, and if you're right, I will give £100 to Compassion In World Farming. A firm promise. Remember - animals will suffer if you don't deliver. And - please do say who you'd like to review it. There must be someone you have in mind. You wouldn't have suggested there was otherwise; so who will do it?
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Hey Skinny. It's beginning. Get your checkbook ready.

"What did the reviewers expect? An elegant disquisition on the pitfalls of modern marriage? A tragi-comic look at what can go wrong when you move to the country? ... [This is] a gothic fantasy ... there is a Joycean freedom to its playfulness ... [and] his writing on loss and ageing can be exquisite. ... It's a carnivalesque antidote to all those earnest, urban epics by the graduate trainees of the literary scene. ... Inimitable and irreplaceable. Long may he joyously jiggle his art in our faces, whether we like it or not." -- Melissa Katsoulis The Times
 
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Hey Skinny. It's beginning. Get your checkbook ready.

"What did the reviewers expect? An elegant disquisition on the pitfalls of modern marriage? A tragi-comic look at what can go wrong when you move to the country? ... [This is] a gothic fantasy ... there is a Joycean freedom to its playfulness ... [and] his writing on loss and ageing can be exquisite. ... It's a carnivalesque antidote to all those earnest, urban epics by the graduate trainees of the literary scene. ... Inimitable and irreplaceable. Long may he joyously jiggle his art in our faces, whether we like it or not." -- Melissa Katsoulis The Times
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Very clever of you to forget to mentionen that she called the book undreadable, right before to inimitable and irreplaceable. Get a life, even moz has his downs. Don't try to whitewash the reviews your little dots. That review in the Times was a middle at best. Taking phrases out of context won't make it sound better.

This piece of crap will never get a better review than that 50/50 Times one.
 
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