The capsule reviews i think are a sort of counterbalance also to the longer reviews in which often i will be more enthusiastic or i mean this this ultra light novel i gave it a b because it's competent. The original idea behind the site was to be able to link to other reviews uh and also the i have the review quotes from the major review publications where there are review quotes available. You really should seek out as many as different ones as possible, he says.
Michael Orthofer, one of the world’s most prolific book reviewers, joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on — what else? — books. Read to discover why Michael believes everyone should read more fiction, how we should choose books, why American popular literature is overrated, what he thinks about authors like Herman Melville, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Goethe, J.K. Rowling, Arno Schmidt, and many others, his recommendations for the best sites for readers, why studying literature at college was such a big disappointment, how much book covers matter, and why his opinion will never be the final word.
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