Comments on: This Week’s Gusher Award for Achievement in Hyperbole Goes to … http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/this-week%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/this-week%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/#comment-5794 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:51:49 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=856#comment-5794 4. That’s one problem with some comments in the Gusher Award series — the critics write in the idiom known “reviewese” or “reviewerese,” a language full of words most people don’t use in conversation. This habit can foster intellectual dishonesty. Critics can end up saying in print things they would never say to people they know.

At the Plain Dealer, I used tell the book reviewers: “Say it the way you would say it to your smartest friend.”
Jan

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/this-week%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/#comment-5792 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:10:43 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=856#comment-5792 “Startlingly” isn’t a word regular people use very often even though, in casual conversation, we all tend to exaggerate just a tad. Reviewers need some new adjectives. For this book, “unreal” might suffice.

Malcolm

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/this-week%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/#comment-5790 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:20:46 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=856#comment-5790 Great link. I’m tempted to try to move your comment to Tolle’s Delete Key finalist post so people can have them side-by-side.

Oprah says in the plug that although she’s read a lot of books on spirituality and self-actualization: “This book is the best I’ve ever seen in terms of its clarity and its ability to get people to see the light of who they are.” Nothing about that consciousness that may be emerging in distant galaxies, though …

]]> By: ggelliott http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/this-week%e2%80%99s-gusher-award-for-achievement-in-hyperbole-goes-to-%e2%80%a6/#comment-5789 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:06:31 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=856#comment-5789 Gusher Award of the Decade could go to Oprah herself for her embarrassing on-air plug for Tolle’s book:

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