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Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:00:37 2010 No.1232518 [Reply] [Original]

Do you guys know a good site for book reviews? I need one of 'A Long Way Down'.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:08:37 2010 No.1232526 google A Long Way Down review, second hit is http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/apr/30/shopping.fiction

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:10:37 2010 No.1232529 >>1232526 Well, anyone can write a review. I wanted to know if you guys knew a site which usually had good reviewers. That site looks legit though. Thanks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:15:37 2010 No.1232537 File: 544 KB, 900x1290, sagan2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1232529 It's the guardian, a major British newspaper. They should be legit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:19:37 2010 No.1232543 >>1232537 Oh, I had no idea. Then I will go with that review! Now I don't have to read the book anymore.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:28:37 2010 No.1232554 >>1232543 No need to read books any more. I stopped doing that after I read a review of 'How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read'.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:34:37 2010 No.1232564 I like the London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/

>>	Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Sun Oct 24 12:37:37 2010 No.1232566 http://orwell.ru/library/articles/reviewer/english/e_bkrev >"The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the book that is dealt with." -George Orwell

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 12:55:37 2010 No.1232580 File: 18 KB, 391x212, gumcare_important.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1232554 >He still reads reviews. I stopped reading altogether when I read a review about college.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 13:05:37 2010 No.1232594 >>1232580 I stopped living after I read a review about life. (I'm pretty sure Vonnegut wrote it.)

>>	chunks Sun Oct 24 13:10:37 2010 No.1232600 What you want is the Complete Review. They catalogue book reviews and then review it themselves. Good shit, similar to metacritic, which once also reviewed books. http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html You can thank me later.