Review Enthusiast Gifts

Twitter Cafe: 'We Serve What We Think You Will Like.'

"Do you have a menu sorted by relevance, average customer review, and price low to high?"

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

'It's my own fault for not checking the reviews.'

"And need I remind you, the 'art of the deal' is the lifeblood of this company."

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

Thomas Mann.

Victor Hugo

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

'Let's go to our education reporter for more underreporting of school success stories.'

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

UK border controls relaxed.

Television Readers.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"I can't decide what I fear the most, Putin's Russia or Putin's America."

'Greek debt was downgraded for the 11th time this week, by S&P, to P.O.S. Negative Infinity, meaning it's safer to eat uranium, than own Greek debt.'

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Meet the Enemy

Characters jumping out of a book.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

News Internecine: Murdoch succession battle

Iris Murdoch

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

Apart from protest footage I forget what downtown looks like.

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

"That's Hicks from the corporate office. He's adorable, but trust me—when it comes to acquisitions, he's an animal!"

Weatherman: "Tonight's weather forecast is confusing, followed tomorrow by downright bewildering."

"It's just one bad review and we all know who wrote it."

"Er...nothing much has happened yet today...."

"Regarding the plot of your novel ... what on earth were you thinking?"