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“[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions.” — The New York Times Copy Share Image
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“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
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“[On The Catcher in the Rye] “This Salinger, he’s a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
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“[Ulysses] appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a speciality of the literature of the latrine… I… — Aramis Copy Share Image
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“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They… — Commonweal Copy Share Image
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