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Everyone's a critic

A list of 81 words by sionnach.

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Nothing stirs the creative juices of writers more effectively than the chance to strike out at the competition.

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  • sionnach commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    I am unable to comment on, or indeed view individually, the entries on this list.

    February 4, 2010

  • bilby commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    So you're an ineffectual critic?

    February 4, 2010

  • dontcry commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    Would that be sionnach on wordnik? ;-)

    February 5, 2010

  • bilby commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    Oh, I see he's got himself fixed up.

    February 5, 2010

  • john commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    I love this list. I used to have a daydream about being the editor of The Norton Anthology of Bad Reviews. This cuts right to the chase.

    February 9, 2010

  • bilby commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    Poor Henry J's having a shocker today.

    February 9, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    Great list, s!

    February 9, 2010

  • bilby commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    "He then quoted a review from the New York Times which said: 'Battlefield Earth is about the extinction of the human race, and after seeing this movie I'm all for it.'"

    - Razzies.

    March 8, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    Tchaikovsky on Brahms: '"So many preparations and cb locutions for something which ought to come and chaid at once — and nothing does come, but boredom. His concerto is not warmed by any genuine emotion."'

    From here

    October 31, 2010

  • marky commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    heh heh. irony.

    June 21, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    So I just checked out a copy of Ulysses. Should I actually read it?

    March 7, 2014

  • ry commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    most people say to read Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist... first, as a kind of ramp-up. then Ulysses (& only then, finally Finnegan's Wake). I don't know, i only ever read the first one in that sequence.

    March 7, 2014

  • qms commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    "Ulysses" is wildly different from his earlier fiction, but anyone who hangs out in Wordnik will find much to like in it. If you hang out too much in Wordnik you might end up writing "Finnegan's Wake."

    March 7, 2014

  • ruzuzu commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    I've been reading a biography of Sylvia Beach, and Ulysses is a big part of it--so I'm interested (which is probably half the battle).

    March 7, 2014

  • yarb commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    YES

    March 11, 2014

  • yarb commented on the list everyones-a-critic

    I read Ulysses before Portrait and Dubliners, and it's so different from them I'm not sure how necessary they are. Personally I like an edition with copious endnotes but they're not essential either. Once I read it parallel with the Odyssey which was great fun (though you have to monkey with the order of the books/chapters to make it fit). It's really not that "difficult" a novel. I'm reading "The Recognitions" at the moment which is more difficult than Ulysses.

    March 11, 2014