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10 One-Line Book Reviews

I’ll go first

Ben Human
2 min readApr 26, 2024

Me again.

Part of my inspiration for this bit of fluff (or rather, the idea I’m copying) was this very amusing Twitter (or TikTok or Insta or whatever) post:

Carlton’s clever quip

The other part is this:

I must confess to loving the anti-literary spirit that pervades a good millennial review. It’s something of a genre now, I believe, and might have started with the hilarious Amazon product reviews you sometimes see, like this classic about the monster Wenger Swiss Army Knife:

“Found this stuck into a stone while on vacation. I’m impressed with it, generally. Unfortunately, it turns out that removing it made me the new king of Switzerland, which is a lot of responsibility.”

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