It's a day I never thought I would live long enough to witness, but here we are: The mainstream media-in this case, the august Wall Street Journal-has finally seen fit to cast its gaze on Jerkface. I hope the attention doesn't go to his head. From the article (about how online reviews are not critical enough): "Amazon reviewer Marc Schenker in Vancouver has become a Web-ratings vigilante. For the past several years, he has left nothing but one-star reviews for products. He has called men's magazine Maxim a 'bacchanalia of hedonism,' and described 'The Diary of Anne Frank' as 'very, very, very disappointing.'
The vast majority of reviewers on Amazon 'are a bunch of brown-nosing cheerleaders,' says Mr. Schenker, who reviews under pseudonyms including Jerkface. 'In an online store selling millions of items, there's bound to be many, many awful ones," he says.'"
The man is doing God's work.
You know who else would have thought the Diary of Anne Frank was "very ,very, very disappointing?"
Hitler.
Well, The Diary of Anne Frank was "very, very, very disappointing".
Because it ACTUALLY HAPPENED, FUCKFACE.
Well, to be fair, it was censored:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/world/five-precious-pages-renew-wrangling-over-anne-frank.html
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Wow, is that a stipple-art star graphic? Who says the WSJ is in decline under Murdoch's reign?
Confession?
When assigned Diary of Anne Frank in junior year English (or was it sophomore?) I never read the book and still got an A on the paper. My teenage mind found it stultifyingly dull. Same with Thoreau's Walden!
Agreed. "To Kill a Mockingbird" kicked their asses.
I agree with Walden...but Anne Frank stuck with me.
For an overly dramatic little girl, it was like reading something that I might have written. And the fact that she and her family died and it was a true story, had a huge impact. I think it might have been the first book I read that didn't have a happy ending.
That said, To Kill a Mockingbird rules to this day.
I find it unlikely that something written by a 13-year-old-girl is not entirely compelling.
I'm going to go ahead and give this post two stars.
I LEARNED.
It was compelling in that it coincided with an entirely tragic history lesson.
From the [by all accounts very funny] Hitler Roast during last week's Vancouver Int'l Comedy Festival came this line, delivered by whomever played Hitler: "Anne Frank. Nice kid. Probably didn't have another book in her."