The Great Goodreads Diss List (Part 4)
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"I have been waiting 450 pages to write a scathing review, and now that I'm here to destroy this, I kind of feel rather tired about the whole thing."
"A handy reference guide for tropes and clichés, poorly disguised as a potboiler."
"if I had to add up all the pages of actual real dialogue and not just snarky barbs, this book would be five pages long."
"This author couldn't write her way out of a wet paper bag."
"I’d rather experience the zombie apocalypse than continue reading this book."
"Throughout the second half of the book, all I could think was DUDE, I WOULD'VE CHEATED ON YOU TOO."
"You can tell which characters are bad guys not because of any interesting moral argument but because the bad people are implausibly successful in order for the story to continue."
"like eating stale cake while reading the Old Testament."
"I started to feel like she's a racetrack consisting of a circuit of legs-breasts-eyes-mouth and he's busy trying to get his laps in."
"Prose purpled itself into oblivion."
"as personal and efficient as an unoccupied room in a Ramada Inn."
"I would like to thank this book -- my kitchen is clean and the laundry is folded because every time I picked up this book, I found something more interesting to do."
"I mean, I love a semi-colon as much as the next girl, but really???"
"has anyone told men they don't need to publish every scrap of thought that cross their mind"
"my oeil remained untromped"
"this book would be better if all the characters brutally died in shark infested waters"
"The writing here flows more like a rockslide than a river."
"everyone in this book speaks like a founding father."
"The hero was tormented. So was I…"
"I think this book is really great if your table or chair has a leg that is shorter than the rest"
"i do in fact have more chemistry with my toilet."
"I got about 30 pages into this book before I realized I was reading Ted Kaczynski's shopping list for Cabela's."
"we listen and we tell the judge."
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