Adverb Abuse
The Morning News has compiled an amusing assortment of amazon.com one-star reviews of classic books. Among my favorites:
Gravity's Rainbow: “When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”
The Great Gatsby: “It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”
The Sound and The Fury: “This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
and finally, The Lord of The Rings: “The book is not readable because of the overuse of adverbs.” Amen to that, I say verily.
Gravity's Rainbow: “When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”
The Great Gatsby: “It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”
The Sound and The Fury: “This book is like an ungrateful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return.”
and finally, The Lord of The Rings: “The book is not readable because of the overuse of adverbs.” Amen to that, I say verily.
posted by Germanicu$ at 12:09 PM
1 Comments:
What a great idea! Kudos to the Morning News for following up the Gary Benchley letters with this. The one about "The Sun Also Rises" is hilarious.
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