Comments | wwidsith: "Virgil is not a bad writer.."

wwidsith

"Virgil is not a bad writer.."

Sep 10, 2009 17:30

While I love LibraryThing (being the sort of person who takes great pleasure in arranging his bookshelves by subject and alphabetical order of surname), the reviews posted there can sometimes send me into seething fits of frustration. Here are some that I have been subjected to this week, to give you an idea of the level of analysis some reviewers ( Read more... )

wearing the old coat, idiocy

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herself_nyc September 10 2009, 17:39:15 UTC

Good God. Why bother? I like the CB one especially.

cdaae September 10 2009, 18:10:46 UTC

Aaaaaaaargh!

heyyyy, how apropos! desayuno_ingles September 11 2009, 00:56:45 UTC

Re: heyyyy, how apropos! wwidsith September 13 2009, 17:42:46 UTC

Love it.

vorgefuhl September 11 2009, 03:15:55 UTC

uh, if you find more of these, could you post them? maybe you should start a project from them. this should be on some well-known "funny random shit" website.

dcozy September 12 2009, 05:42:06 UTC

Reading this almost caused the coffee I was attempting to drink to come spewing out my nose. Thanks for trolling through the LibraryThing "criticism" in search of these gems.

What always gets me about people who dismiss Picasso / Joyce / Mozart / (your favorite genius here) is how convinced such "critics" often are that their lack of comprehension is evidence for the originality and independence of their thought. We all have a titan or two we don't get, but most of us understand that the problem is not with the titan, but with us.