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Everyone loves well-written reviews of bad movies, right? Few things are funnier. And a review of practically anything will do, so long as someone is being witty at its expense. The best one I’d read recently was actually about a phone — David Pogue’s review of the Blackberry Storm in the New York Times (he [...]
I really enjoyed reading this post. I was quite unaware that Mark Twain was so critical of literary work of other writers.
Three things that might account for it:
1. Cooper was dead and out of style when Twain wrote this.
2. Twain was probably the single most important American literary figure of his day. He could basically say whatever he wanted.
3. Twain was kind of a jerk. ;)