[Saije]

I always wonder about those blurbs from other authors on the back of a dust jacket. Do they really mean it? Did they even read the book?

[Tax-chick]

Mark Twain, the American writer, was so irritated by Austen that he wrote in one letter: “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin bone.”

One might almost think he'd come across a time-travelling copy of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."

Maybe he picked it up while visiting the Starship Enterprise.

[Rocko]

I always wonder about those blurbs from other authors on the back of a dust jacket. Do they really mean it? Did they even read the book?

Some of them must be skimmers, speed readers, or just blurbing for friends. It seemed back in the 1980s that a Stephen King quote was on the cover of every other horror writer published. Now that his leftist positions are so well known and he's excepted by the mainstream, he's often seen quoted on "literary" novels as well.

[Lancey Howard]

Mark Twain, the American writer, was so irritated by Austen that he wrote in one letter: “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin bone.”

"Every time I read Pride and Prejudice..."??
Twain sounds more tongue-in-cheek than insulting.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I tried to read “Don Quixote” several times and I just can’t get past the first few pages.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

“It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is fifteen-hundred pages long,” Mailer wrote. “At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble the act of making love to a 300lb woman. Once she gets on top, it’s all over. Fall in love, or be asphyxiated.”

[LibFreeOrDie]

The blurbs from fellow authors on dust jackets should be replaced by comments from the students forced to read “literature.”

Honestly, how many of you had to read “Mill on the Floss” in high school, and how many of you really enjoyed it?