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What Pooh Might Have Said to Dante and Other Futile Speculations
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Do you know Manny Rayner? Do you? DO YOU?!
If you're looking at reading this book then you probably should. This is a collection of his Goodreads reviews, brilliantly edited and organized into a cohesive, strangely comprehensive narrative.
Stop and think about that for a second. What would you come up with if you took your Goodreads reviews and tried to publish them? I know what I'd get and it would probably look like this:
And it would probably end up being a bunch of nonsensical scribbles with incoherent screaming and ranting written in my blood.
But that's the thing about Manny. He just spends so much damn time being interesting and intelligent. He almost never throws feces at random strangers. When he writes a review it is intensely interesting and when you put them all together they make sense, and they're excellent.
Manny is this Goodreads celebrity of sorts. He's been around the site forever and he somehow continues to be very popular despite not writing popularist material or reviewing big, common books. Interesting things about Manny:
-He once convinced me to read Madam Bovary.
-When I didn't like it he convinced me to read it in the original French.
-When my French was rusty, he sent me a care package of some French books to improve my reading comprehension enough to be able to read it in the original French.
-Once wrote a poem dedicated to my boobs (said poem is published in this book)
-He creates and propagates some of the most fun, and interesting activities on Goodreads like the Goodreads God Test and the Character Death Match
What would Pooh have said to Dante? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Can you reasonably imagine the answer to that question? Do you want to know? Then maybe check this book out. Particularly if you are looking at becoming a great reviewer, and if you want to see fun, wonderful and different ways to approach talking about literature. Because, frankly, Manny does things that nobody else does on this site and he does them brilliantly.
If you're looking at reading this book then you probably should. This is a collection of his Goodreads reviews, brilliantly edited and organized into a cohesive, strangely comprehensive narrative.
Stop and think about that for a second. What would you come up with if you took your Goodreads reviews and tried to publish them? I know what I'd get and it would probably look like this:
And it would probably end up being a bunch of nonsensical scribbles with incoherent screaming and ranting written in my blood.
But that's the thing about Manny. He just spends so much damn time being interesting and intelligent. He almost never throws feces at random strangers. When he writes a review it is intensely interesting and when you put them all together they make sense, and they're excellent.
Manny is this Goodreads celebrity of sorts. He's been around the site forever and he somehow continues to be very popular despite not writing popularist material or reviewing big, common books. Interesting things about Manny:
-He once convinced me to read Madam Bovary.
-When I didn't like it he convinced me to read it in the original French.
-When my French was rusty, he sent me a care package of some French books to improve my reading comprehension enough to be able to read it in the original French.
-Once wrote a poem dedicated to my boobs (said poem is published in this book)
-He creates and propagates some of the most fun, and interesting activities on Goodreads like the Goodreads God Test and the Character Death Match
What would Pooh have said to Dante? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Can you reasonably imagine the answer to that question? Do you want to know? Then maybe check this book out. Particularly if you are looking at becoming a great reviewer, and if you want to see fun, wonderful and different ways to approach talking about literature. Because, frankly, Manny does things that nobody else does on this site and he does them brilliantly.
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This is a fantastic review. Very well written and I think it manages to capture the essence of Manny very well. Also, I'm going to steal that gif. Every indie author should have it at their fingertips.
BTW- Only on goodreads could you write a review about a book written about reviews on goodreads. Good stuff!
I know, right! It's brilliant how one can do these things on Goodreads. And you are welcome to borrow my image. Can you believe I did that all by myself? On photoshop, too. They said I needed a class. I sure showed them.
Kat wrote: "I know, right! It's brilliant how one can do these things on Goodreads. And you are welcome to borrow my image. Can you believe I did that all by myself? On photoshop, too. They said I needed a..."OMG, you did that yourself?? I thought that was like, a REAL image from a REAL website.
thanks for your good review. you convinced me to buy the book.
After seeing your self portrait, I understand why Manny wrote a poem to your boobs. (I don't usually pay attention to boobs, but perhaps I should)
I really had to look hard to find an insulting passage to include on my "Praise For" page. I thought at first it was an impossible task, but it's amazing what you can do with selective editing.
Seriously, thank you again.