Book Belches

A Blog devoted to ridiculing the most uninformed, inane, and vitriolic book reviews and blog comments about books on the web. Nominate the dumbest reviews (though not of your own books). Awards and prizes will be announced at year's end!

Friday, July 24, 2009

Berating the Remains of Henry James

From Erin Miller: "A review of "The Ambassadors", Henry James, found on Goodreads.com. Several interesting things to note he...

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Review of The Old Man and the Sea

Another great submission from Erin Miller, a Goodreads review of the Hemingway classic. Matt 11/28/07 Matt rated it: 1 of 5 stars bookshelve...

Hateful Review of Terry Eagleton

From William Bradley, this smart and thoughtful dissection of Matt Taibbi's evisceration of Terry Eagleton's book, Reason, Faith and...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Reviews of Virginia Woolf and Henry Miller

I was going to wait a little bit to post some more silly book reviews, but these entries from Lauren Scotto are too good to delay. All revi...

Review of Moby Dick

Here's a great one sent in by Erin Miller: I'm not sure if this is really unintentionally funny, or if it's the "wish you...

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Bad Review Contest

In a short story by Ellen Gilchrist, a New Orleans society matron reviews a novel by skipping the contents entirely and focusing her ...

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Robin Hemley: I'm the author of eight books of nonfiction and fiction, most recently DO OVER (Little, Brown). Among my awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago Tribune, an Independent Book Award for Nonfiction, and a number of others.

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