He was appointed Nairan, the secretary of the emperor and the reviewer of all the documents sent to the emperor before the emperor himself read them.

Furthermore, he had read a scathing Cream review in Rolling Stone, a publication he had much admired, in which the reviewer, Jon Landau, called him a " master of the blues cliché.

One book reviewer described it as " a companion every serious songwriter should read, and read again, and keep handy for referral.

There are doubtless many detective stories more exciting and blood-curdling than The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but this reviewer has recently read very few which provide greater analytical stimulation.

The reviewer Brian Spitzer, a professor of Biology, described Darwin on Trial as the most deceptive book he had ever read.

One reviewer wrote: " as long as meticulous craftsmanship and honest entertainment are valued, and as long as action, authenticity, and expertise still make up the strong framework of the good adventure / thriller, Desmond Bagley's books will surely be read.

On certain sites, users create and share annotated playlists, giving visitors the option to read contextual information or reviewer comments about each song while listening.

A reviewer for the Metropolitan said, " No one with any pretensions to poetic feeling can read its delicious portraiture of rustic scenery and of a mode of life long since defunct, without the most intense delight ".

Author and reviewer Orson Scott Card writes that " the climax is not just an inward epiphany for a character … he world changes in wonderful strange ways, and the audience can read the book passionately, with sweating fingers, eager to see what happens next, yet reluctant to leave the present moment.

" The New York Times book reviewer felt uncomfortable with the mix: " The story is the real reason to read Brittle Innings ; it has a better narrative and a more meaningful message than the subplot about the literate and sometimes likable monster.

In a review for Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, Jeremy duQuesnay Adams remarked that Manchester ’ s work contained “ some of the most gratuitous errors of fact and eccentricities of judgment this reviewer has read ( or heard ) in quite some time .” In particular, Adams pointed out that Manchester ’ s claims about diet, clothing, and medieval people ’ s views of time and their sense of self, all ran counter to the conclusions of twentieth-century historians of the Middle Ages.

" A reviewer of The Trades website called it " an entertaining read that manages to serve several purposes in one concise novel " and found the characters " unusual yet likable ", but felt that " the disappointing bit of this novel is that the solutions always arrive through a series of disconnected events that just lead the kids to think in certain ways.

" The reviewers at read / RANT were similarly divided, with one reviewer calling it " an exciting, genre bending superhero story " that " could easily become one of the coolest titles of the relaunch ," ( though he warned, " it could just as easily devolve quickly into melodrama and camp "), while another said it tied with Hawk and Dove for the worst book of the relaunch.

“ Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat “ read the headline in the Huddersfield Examiner, and the reviewer commented “ Clearly, members knew this piece but, to dust it down in one hour and give such a performance demonstrates the talent which the Huddersfield Philharmonic has in its ranks .” If this concert tested the abilities of the players, the plans for Mahler ’ s Third Symphony were to test the organisational ability of the orchestral manager and committee, jeopardised as they were by the sudden unavailability of Rupert D ’ Cruze.

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the collection as " as light and frothy conglomeration of sidesplitters as it has been my good fortune to read.

" On the relationship between this author and her readers, the reviewer added: It's uncommonly good to read the work of a writer who believes so unabashedly in the miracle of writing — that some dimension, unlike any other, exists between the writer and the reader ; that literature is an ' open system ,' a ' living system.

" He was not the only reviewer to suggest that the fragments should not have been published or should not be read.

A reviewer from The Dallas Morning News wrote: " In a media market where cultural stereotypes abound, it's refreshing to read a novel featuring Latino characters who are nuanced and authentic.

A reviewer for The El Paso Times wrote: “ These very personal essays cross several borders: cultural, historical, and self-imposed .... We owe it to ourselves to read, savor and read them again .” The collection of essays won the Bronze Award in ForeWord's Book of the Year Award in Essays.

" The reviewer for SF Site was also interested in the scientific themes, calling the novel " one of the most chilling " and " one of the most important and thought provoking books " she had read that year: " Greed is the key, here, and it's a tragedy.

An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star of 21 March 1942 said, " It doesn't take long to read this one, but the two killings in it are made so mysterious that you will not want to lay the book down until the killer is caught.

He was the first reviewer of A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, a bestseller featured on Oprah's monthly bookclub, to correctly expose this alleged memoir as fraudulent years before that was officially brought to light ( the title of Dolan's review was " A Million Pieces of Shit " and the first line was " This is the worst thing I have ever read ").

Throughout his life Orwell continually supported himself as a book reviewer, writing works so long and sophisticated they have had an influence on literary criticism.

Ralph Thompson, a book reviewer for The New York Times, was critical of the length of the novel, and wrote in June 1936:

I happen to feel that the book would have been infinitely better had it been edited down to say, 500 pages, but there speaks the harassed daily reviewer as well as the would-be judicious critic.

Over decades, she has continued to write while employed in a wide variety of jobs — as book reviewer, economic graphanalyst, editor, EKG technician, food analyst, laboratory technician in penicillin research, nurse's aide, office manager, payroll bookkeeper, photographer, pollster, public relations, publicist and store detective.

Fiennes was later criticised by the reviewer of another book for the personal nature of his attacks on Huntford, and for his apparent assumption that his own experiences as a polar explorer gave him unique authority.

The book was called a " tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned work that gives feminism a bad name " by the New York Times principal book reviewer Michiko Kakutani.

The famously abrasive columnist and restaurant reviewer A A Gill in his 2005 book The Angry Island called Stow " catastrophically ghastly " and " the worst place in the world ", resulting in an angry response from the town's mayor.

A reviewer of Wrathall's book stated: " An ontology of unconcealment ... means a description and analysis of the broad contexts in which entities show up as meaningful to us, as well as the conditions under which such contexts, or worlds, emerge and fade.

A reviewer of Lord's book stated that Lord's photographic evidence showing a strong physical resemblance between Niven and Comyn-Platt " would appear to confirm these theories, though photographs can often be misleading.

His role at the newspaper was equivalent to the modern book or theatre reviewer.

Unlike many other works by King, there is little focus on the supernatural ; the only such event in the book is a telepathic vision, which forms a link to King's novel Gerald's Game ; although reviewer Sean Piccoli observed the novel otherwise contained " vintage bone-yard King: the tiny town, the secret lives.

A reaction against this tradition, poet Leonard Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers ( 1966 ), was labelled by one reviewer " the most revolting book ever written in Canada ".

" Smith notes that a reviewer from The New Republic compared the book to T. S.

One reviewer from The New York Times called the book " a remarkable volume " and compared Patchen's work to Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and even to the Bible.

* Cortney Lance Bledsoe, poet, writer, and book reviewer, was born in Wynne in 1976.

She was also a regular book reviewer for Books & Bookmen and later at The Evening Standard in the 1990s.

Starting in 1931, Taylor worked as book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian, and from 1957 he was a columnist with the Observer.

After being introduced by a college friend in 1964 to the producers of Take 30 an afternoon variety show run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) Clarkson was hired by the Crown corporation as a freelance book reviewer.

Concerning volume one of the book, The Sunday Times reviewer Oscar Turnill wrote that " Fleming was right in judging the children's market ripe for the ... cliff hanger " and praised his " avuncular and knowledgeable storytelling ", which was matched by Burningham's illustrations.

She passed it on to Barbara Grier in 1968, who had been contributing to the magazine as a book reviewer and poetry writer.

* Public radio interview of Mary Doria Russell and NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse discussing historical fiction.

One exasperated reviewer, Harold Hotelling, likened the book to “ proving the multiplication table by arranging elephants in rows and columns, and then doing the same for numerous other kinds of animals ”.