Week 2: Reviews
Everyone's a critic! Match up each of these bad reviews (from both professional reviewers and regular readers) with its corresponding book. Then write your own book review below to complete this challenge.

Submit your answers by Thursday, July 15 at midnight. Anyone can participate, but you must have a St. Albert Library Card to be eligible for the prize draw.
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The New York Times review: "There are two equally serious reasons why it isn’t worth any adult reader’s attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion. The second is that it is repulsive.” *
Amazon review: "This is a tough book to read unless you understand several languages and are on LSD. I may have thirty or forty more years to live so maybe I'll get through it." *
The New York Times review: "This [author], he's a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though, it’s too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he should’ve cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crumby school. They depress me.” *
Goodreads review: "Ugh...just because it was written yonks ago by a depressed girl living on the Yorkshire Moors does not mean that it is good. What makes a classic book: The quality of the writing or the passage of time? I would rather slowly bite poke my eyes out with my Kindle than to read this again. Or to read anything else by ANY of the Bronte sisters." *
The New York Times review: "But the most conspicuous lack, in comparison with the classics of the fearsome-future genre, is the inability to imagine a language to match the changed face of common life. No newspeak. And nothing like the linguistic tour de force of A Clockwork Orange..." *
Amazon reviewer: "[This book] is in fact a lame, boring, and novel that attempts to be philosophical. I say “attempts” because any useful words of philosophy are lost or choked by the presence of Winston, the lame, spine-less main character who seems intent on boring the reader to death." *
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