Tag: rant
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Never Again
A hot mess of a book I deeply regret finishing. Featuring inconsistent characters, an encyclopedia’s worth of forgotten setups, and a positively offensive ending. Read at your peril.
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Moleskine Notebooks – A review
Is the success of the Moleskine just clever marketing, or is it a genuinely superior product?
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Lost Sight of its Purpose
A book that wastes its unique positioning to tell a superficial story about the Great War.
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The Wrong Vehicle
An author more interested in forwarding a political agenda than delivering a good story.
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Perfectly Detached
A lot of classic music anecdotes. There is little here to hold the attention of readers outside the industry.
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Trying to Make the Bugs into Features
A long and impassioned rant about a book that fails on almost every conceivable angle written by a author who smugly suggests the problem must be the reader.
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Orgasmic Descriptions of Food
This book had so much potential. An engaging misanthrope protagonist, a delightfully anachronistic world, an intriguing premise. And it wasted it all with a plot that went nowhere.
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Fan-fiction Scraped off the Internet
Book Review of A Taste of Gold & Iron by Alexandra Rowland. I cant believe a publisher picked this up. It lacks structure, character and worldbuilding. What a waste of paper.
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Pointless Fan-Service
Book Review of The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera. A vacuous cash-grab of a story which takes 500 pages to say not much of anything.
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Its a Marathon, not a Sprint
A book launch goes wrong for the protagonist when someone asks a question she was not expecting.