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Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers by Robert Schnakenberg

March 23, 2019 by octothorp 1 Comment

So I knew this book would be trashy, but I didn’t expect it to be actual trash. I’m gonna finish it, but I hated this book enough that I couldn’t wait to be done to start my review. (Edit: I finished it. It also states that Jack Nicholson got his break playing the crazed dental patient in Little Shop of Horrors – he was masochistic, but it was the dentist who was crazed – and credits Yeardley Smith as the voice of Bart Simpson when she’s actually […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Awful, robert schnakenberg

octothorp's CBR11 Review No:18 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Awful, robert schnakenberg ·
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What in the world is the purpose of this book? I am genuinely curious.

February 22, 2016 by Malin 33 Comments

This review will contain spoilers, so if you want to avoid knowing all the details of the sparse and meaningless plot, maybe skip the first couple of paragraphs. Holden Caulfield is a self-important, spoiled and worthless little shit. At the start of the book, he is cooling his heels at the fourth boarding school he’s been expelled from because he just can’t be bothered to even try to apply himself (having failed four out of five subjects completely), and generally bitching about how phony his […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Young Adult Tagged With: 1950s, Awful, CBR8, historical fiction, J.D. Salinger, literary classic, Malin, the catcher in the rye, Young Adult

Malin's CBR8 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, History, Young Adult · Tags: 1950s, Awful, CBR8, historical fiction, J.D. Salinger, literary classic, Malin, the catcher in the rye, Young Adult ·
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Just Bad

January 18, 2015 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

I’m known for being quite sarcastic. I know that some people find sarcasm to be the lowest form of communication; I’m okay with that. So it isn’t surprising that, as part of a trio of joke gifts (the other items being a screaming pickle and a Jesus refrigerator magnet set), my husband and I were gifted this book by our friends. It is so bad. I don’t know what they were going for, but unless it was unoriginality, they missed the mark. I know that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Awful

ASKReviews's CBR7 Review No:12 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Awful ·
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