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"If you ever need to filibuster, this is the only book you'll ever need. Guarantied to break the will of your opponents. No bill will ever pass unless YOU want it to."
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"This book gives you great literary undrstanding. In order to appreciate the good, you must read the bad."
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"the plot twists at the end, and you realize it wasn't actually a Norwegian cook book you've been reading."
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"Even though there are many characters and the plot is rather simplistic - this is the first Novella publication of the Phone Book!"
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Card manages to show here that, in just a few years, his ability to craft a workable story will be in near sight to Lucas and Mamet.
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Card's newest attempt quickly causes literary brain freeze. That is, gluttonous consumption will surely lead to pain.
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Like a dream that you wake up from and get out of bed, get breakfast, and go to work.
Never read this!!
"Me Cardzan, you Jane!" Ho ho ho, Card does it again with his witty use of over-used things that have already been thought up. Three jeers for Card.
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."
"In order to read this, please have a 30-volume encyclopadia and a 20-volume dictionary beside you. Also, you might consider several other dictionaries of various languages, from French to Tibetan."
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"This novel provides a stunning conclusion to reading the author's books. You'll never pick one up again."
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The characters are as realistic as Donald Trump's hair.
If you read this and don't commit ritual suicide, you get a free frogurt!
Who would have thought that "Hooked On Phonics" would translate so cleanly into Vietnamese? This guy!
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If the author had written another book I would read it. As it is, I am reading someone elses instead.
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With the coinage of "li-fi", Monsieur de la Canard, the one juvenile Scott, wrapt but not rapacious, belittled as he doth disencumber and grunt, hath marked his voyage into the nether-regions of pomo public voice, un-explored by prior workers in the sub-field denoted by the "honorific" of Sci-Fi, as his own. Let him pizzle where he sees want, and resist the wanton neglect of the weeds he oversees.
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"If you liked Harry Potter, put this book down and go re-read that series"
"gives a whole new appreciation for Ebay"
"many great artist are not fully understood until they are dead... i don't think this is why I am wishing to soon see this author in his grave"
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There's only one Card, and it isn't an ace!
Ardcay's ookbay ulesray!
If I only had 6 months left to live, I wouldn't read Card's new book. (I never start something I don't have time to finish).
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"This book as a whole is better than the sum of its chapters individually."
"Price means quality, right? This book is very expensive to maintain: Per chapter, one must drink several bottles of pure alcohol and inject much LSD into system; all in order to retain conventional form."
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" I could hear my money going down the drain as I read this book" " One of the sexiest books around, and it was like a textbook"
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" Shatteres my dreams in more than one way... Gave me great ideas to kill my mother...I killed my mother"
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I was inspired to write my own book after reading. Certainly if this person could get published than so can I ... or my pet monkey.
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If I can expand this from "reviewer comments" to "anything on the cover that would drive you away" ...
In huge letters: ORSON SCOTT CARD Small letters: is going to be really pissed when he finds out I put his name on my book (ripped off from Team America) -- This was a book so beyond the bounds of the ordinary that no one else would publish it! And even we weren't too sure. -- WILLIAM SHATNER
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"Not so much an essay on man as it is an analogy to Ramen noodles".
(I'm really hungry right now so sorry for all the food-related comments).
"Disturbing in a way not unlike how a McDonald's shake refuses to melt".
"Good in a way reminiscent of 3-day old pizza that HAS to be good because it is still in the original box"
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For those who love the study of European Slug mating habits and reading in latin then we have the book for you!
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"Look, your wife isn't going to get off your back until you read this. Stop postponing the inevitable."
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