http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/07/04/review-every-book/ A National Blog of Literature & Discussion Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/07/04/review-every-book/#comment-3243 Book Review Meritocracy « SONYA CHUNG Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:05:21 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=2453#comment-3243 [...] Silverman’s article here. Posted by sonyachung Filed in book biz, media, reviews Tags: Jacob Silverman, Lauren Conrad [...] [...] Silverman’s article here. Posted by sonyachung Filed in book biz, media, reviews Tags: Jacob Silverman, Lauren Conrad [...]

]]> http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/07/04/review-every-book/#comment-3236 The Second Pass Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:09:19 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=2453#comment-3236 [...] Jacob Silverman notes that a staggering 275,000 or so new titles were published last year, and wonders how we should decide which books get reviewed. He’s pretty sure that Lauren Conrad’s L.A. Candy deserves to be ignored. Yet Salon recently [...] [...] Jacob Silverman notes that a staggering 275,000 or so new titles were published last year, and wonders how we should decide which books get reviewed. He’s pretty sure that Lauren Conrad’s L.A. Candy deserves to be ignored. Yet Salon recently [...]

]]> http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/07/04/review-every-book/#comment-3230 PHM Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:22:10 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/?p=2453#comment-3230 You could be right on, but then again, I feel like there's no room for negative reviews anymore because everybody's in denial about the fact that nobody wants to buy their books. So when someone gets a negative review they go animal these days and get more publicity for it than they got by getting thrashed in a review. It's happened twice in recent memory and might be a new trend. It's all madness, really. I'm not sure why I even review books ever. Not even because I want to help friends out. Maybe it's because I want to feel like my opinion is important. Anyways, everybody's always got something to say about NYT. I don't remember the last time I heard a civilian--someone not literary in nature--mention anything about an actual NYT review. I'm also not sure how much that bestseller list means anymore. Maybe I'm bitter. You could be right on, but then again, I feel like there’s no room for negative reviews anymore because everybody’s in denial about the fact that nobody wants to buy their books. So when someone gets a negative review they go animal these days and get more publicity for it than they got by getting thrashed in a review. It’s happened twice in recent memory and might be a new trend. It’s all madness, really. I’m not sure why I even review books ever. Not even because I want to help friends out. Maybe it’s because I want to feel like my opinion is important. Anyways, everybody’s always got something to say about NYT. I don’t remember the last time I heard a civilian–someone not literary in nature–mention anything about an actual NYT review. I’m also not sure how much that bestseller list means anymore. Maybe I’m bitter.

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