Thought for the Day I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when ...

[Paul Whybrow]

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

Mark Twain

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Not too nice a guy then.

 

[RK Wallis]

I'm not inviting him to dinner!

 

[E G Logan]

Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

I expect if they find themselves in the same part of the Hereafter, they'll have a fair few things to discuss...

 

[Vagabond Heart]

That's ok, Twainey, you do you. Meanwhile, in the hereafter, Jane is completely eviscerating you with subtlety and wit, and leaving you knowing she may now be missing a shin-bone but you're totally in need of a new back-bone.

 

[MattScho]

That's ok, Twainey, you do you. Meanwhile, in the hereafter, Jane is completely eviscerating you with subtlety and wit, and leaving you knowing she may now be missing a shin-bone but you're totally in need of a new back-bone.

Eviscerating? His is an overboard comment, probably a joke as he was almost never not joking, but the man was also a genius, and The Adventures of Huck Finn stands up as one of the more important books in US history and on race, anywhere or anytime. Backbone the man had.

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Imma stand with my girl Jane, lol.