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Zeit Bites: Books

‘I barely got through every sickening page’

Classic Vegas novels reconsidered through Amazon’s one-star reviews
 

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by Hunter S. Thompson

“Not one funny, humorous or interesting story at all …”

“I couldn’t shake the feeling that this whole book was written in a language I didn’t understand.”

 

THE COLD SIX THOUSAND
by James Ellroy

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“I got to Page 347 where the following lines appear: ‘Slaves shook their chains. Slaves did the Shackle Shimmy Shake.’ I was not pleased with this nonsense …”

“See book. See me. See me throw book in trash.”

 

“Gosh, aren’t prostitutes and alcoholics so wonderful and clever?”

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“I barely got through every sickening page …”

 

“Tedious, arid, banal, boring, bromidic, insipid, lifeless, random, tangential, vapid, pointless, plotless minutia about nothing.”

“If Hollywood don’t wanna make a movie of a book, how good can it be?”