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і він так само гарно вміє писати позитивні рецензії. зокрема мене тішать позитивні рецензії на курта воннегута (Vonnegut is unusual among novelists who dramatize the conflict between fathers and sons in that his sympathies always lie on the sadder-but-wiser side of the generation gap. In an era that has institutionalized adolescent rebellion, here is a father for foundlings of all ages) і стівена кінга.

чи про критиків (з рецензії на конкретну збірку з поіменним називанням авторів), теж атлічне:
Academic critics are traditionally forgiven for flat prose and laborings of the obvious, but the infelicity, imprecision, and leaden-headedness of the introduction to which these learned gentlemen have signed their names are not up to the level of literacy one may demand of an undergraduate paper.

дивовижно симпатичний у своєму бурчанні дядько. от, наприклад, про прекрасного, магічного рея бредбері:
His sense of humor doesn't operate on both sides of the generation gap; his horrors are redolent of Halloween costumery; his sentimentality cloys; his sermons are intrusive and schoolmarmish; he is uninformed and undisciplined. He is an artist only in the sense that he is not a hydraulic engineer.

кльовий брутальний автор на обкладці, і зміст - список есеїв - дуже потужно виглядає вже сам по собі, і перший есей атлічний:
A provincial is any person who would be embarrassing if he were a friend or a member of the same club. Science fiction writers are the provincials of literature.
коротше, i'm so gonna like this book.