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Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Melville’s Moby-Dick

February 27, 2013August 1, 2015 Biblioklept34 Comments

[Ed. note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews of Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. To be very clear, I think Moby-Dick is fantastic—but I also enjoy seeing what people compelled to write negative reviews of the book on Amazon had to say. What follows are selections of one-star Amazon reviews; I’ve preserved the reviewers’ unique styles… Continue reading Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Melville’s Moby-Dick

Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Joyce’s Ulysses

February 2, 2013February 2, 2013 Biblioklept25 Comments

[Ed. note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses. To be very clear, I think Ulysses is a marvelous, rewarding read (more on that here). Today, February 2nd, is Joyce’s birthday—let’s celebrate by enjoying the observations of some readers who were unimpressed by his masterpiece. While one or two of the reviews are tongue-in-cheek,… Continue reading Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Joyce’s Ulysses

Selections from Five-Star Amazon Reviews of E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 Biblioklept6 Comments

[Editorial note: E.L. James’s novel Fifty Shades of Grey has 13,439 five-star Amazon reviews. James Joyce’s novel Ulysses has 643 reviews on Amazon (that’s total reviews). See also. Below are some selections from five-star reviews of Fifty Shades of Grey]. I was infected with this book I have read more sex phrases in other books. I didn’t really even read… Continue reading Selections from Five-Star Amazon Reviews of E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey

Selections from One-Star Reviews of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

May 10, 2013May 10, 2013 Biblioklept8 Comments

[Ed. note: The following citations come from one-star Amazon reviews of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. While I think that Gatsby is probably the most overrated book in the American canon, I do think it’s an important book (overrated ≠ bad). I’ve read it many, many times and used it in the classroom. Some of the… Continue reading Selections from One-Star Reviews of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Riff on the death of Cormac McCarthy

June 19, 2023July 12, 2023 Biblioklept6 Comments

We were about an hour north of the border, driving a rented car from Quebec City to a hiker hostel our friends own in Maine, when I got a text from my uncle: “It seems your favorite author has died…” (The ellipses were part of his text.) At first, I thought he meant Thomas Pynchon,… Continue reading Riff on the death of Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris (Book acquired, 6 Dec. 2022)

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Biblioklept2 Comments

I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s latest (probably last) novel Stella Maris the other day. I’ve avoided reviews of its predecessor novel The Passenger (okay, maybe not all reviews) and will continue to avoid reviews of both novels until I’ve finished Stella Maris. It’s my belief that McCarthy intends for his audience to read the novels intertextually. (This is an… Continue reading Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris (Book acquired, 6 Dec. 2022)

Pynchon in Public Day, 2018

May 8, 2018 Biblioklept2 Comments

What the hell is Pynchon in Public Day? My (incomplete) annotations of Gravity’s Rainbow An argument for three possible starting points for reading Thomas Pynchon In which I read Playboy for the Thomas Pynchon article List of Possible Descriptors for Against the Day Captain Geoffrey “Pirate” Prentice’s bodacious banana breakfast for a bunch of hung over army officers… Continue reading Pynchon in Public Day, 2018

and yes I said yes I will recycle this Bloomsday blog again Yes

June 16, 2017June 17, 2017 Biblioklept3 Comments

How to read Ulysses What did Leopold actually do on June 16th, 1904? About Bloomsday 1.0 Selections from one-star Amazon reviews of Ulysses A list of Irish heroes (from “The Cyclops” episode of Ulysses) Another page of Joyce’s notes, plus links to more James Joyce talks dirty Filming Finnegans William Faulkner’s Joyce anxiety Ezra Pound on James Joyce Marilyn […]

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On Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about storytelling

April 26, 2017April 28, 2017 Edwin Turner10 Comments

Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale has been adapted into a television series by Hulu, a fact which you probably already knew if you are on the internet and are interested in these sorts of things. Initial clips of the show seem promising enough. Elisabeth Moss, who I loved in Top of The Lake, plays the novel’s… Continue reading On Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about storytelling

It’s June 16 so I guess I’ll just recycle this Bloomsday blog again

June 16, 2016 Biblioklept1 Comment

Bloomsday blog

June 16, 2015June 17, 2015 Biblioklept3 Comments

How to read Ulysses Selections from one-star Amazon reviews of Ulysses A list of Irish heroes (from “The Cyclops” episode of Ulysses) Another page of Joyce’s notes, plus links to more James Joyce talks dirty Filming Finnegans William Faulkner’s Joyce anxiety Ezra Pound on James Joyce Marilyn Monroe reads Molly Biblioklept’s lousy review (the review is lousy, not the… Continue reading Bloomsday blog