For All Writers Discouraged by Their Critics

Take a look at these:


For any writer whose ever felt discouraged by an Amazon review: THE TEN BEST AMAZON REVIEWS:


1) "That's the biggest waste of 127 pages in the entire universe...The only other character is Manolin, a young boy. He also has no friends other than Santiago. This is because he is a little nerd." Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway


2) "It would have been a better book if Steinbeck had made it longer and put more effort into it. When you read his books you get the feeling that he started out with this great idea, and then got bored so he just finished the book real quick." Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck


3) "Walker is the worst writer ever to sell 100,000 copies. I mean it; she's worse than any crappy romance writer, any best-selling writer of thrillers, anybody." The Color Purple - Alice Walker


4) "It didn't catch my attention until the very end, when I knew I wouldn't have to read it anymore." Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier


5) "If you are really looking for reading this awful in your spare time, I would suggest a line-by-line read of the manual to a mainframe computer." Beloved - Toni Morrison


6) "I am sorry to see all the reviews mentioning this as required reading--the sorry state of education the world over, I guess." The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood


7) "Buy the book and burn it. Or lastly read it and ponder suicide. Its that bad!" Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling


8) "...it seems he forgot that he was writing a fiction story about 200 pages in and proceeded to bore the hell out of me with wale biology. It took me a year to pick it up and finish it." Moby Dick - Herman Melville


9) "It is not hyperbole to say that *I* could write better. If freestanding gerund phrases, missing apostrophes, and minimal character development are all it takes to win the Pulitzer Prize, then I weep for the future" of American Literature." The Road - Cormac McCarthy


10) "First of all, it seems the author couldn't decide what kind of book he or she (no author name or bio is provided) wanted to write. The end result of this indecision is a book that is part history, part poetry, part self-improvement manual, part science fiction, part children's fable, and so on." The Bible