{"quotes":[{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ('Labyrinth of the mind').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["actuality","appraise","assemble","at-last","authenticity","consequential","decay","experience","facts","factuality","gradually","idealize","key-point","labyrinth","live-through","maimed","mind","mutate","numerous","past","review","sometimes"],"id":30647,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.","author":"Orafoura","tags":["biography","books","humor","list","rating","ratings","readers","review","reviews","self-depreciation","stars","world-s-worst-writer","writers"],"id":60448,"author_id":"Orafoura"},{"text":"The most worst scenario.... I mean if this happen to me and to be so deep in the sea and sailing oh hell... Let's go be with me... (The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea RescueBook by Tougias, Michael J., Sherman, Casey).","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["book","lol","review","wow"],"id":71089,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["cynical","funny","humour","review"],"id":82199,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Abt Draws from a trove of personal experience to create a vivid account of the people and place. Along the way, Abt addresses big questions such as economic reform and practical ones such as how to use e–commerce to achieve brand recognition in North Korea.","author":"Jeff Baron","tags":["book","jeff-baron","john-hopkins","north-korea","review","u-s-korea-institute"],"id":90939,"author_id":"Jeff+Baron"},{"text":"We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God’s voice...Living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.","author":"Mark Batterson","tags":["eric-samuel-timm","foreword","god","jesus","review","static-jedi"],"id":113040,"author_id":"Mark+Batterson"},{"text":"This book (Jarod Kintz's book) is trash. I mean, I assume it is, because that's where I found it while scrounging for lunch. However, I must admit that I haven't read it. I would have, but I am homeless, mainly due to my illiteracy (though Big Government, Keynesian monetary policy, and my struggle with alcoholism certainly played a large role).","author":"Dora J. Arod","tags":["absurd","admission","big-government","books","government","keynes","keynesian","monetary-policy","reading","review"],"id":143778,"author_id":"Dora+J.+Arod"},{"text":"My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["cynical","funny","humour","review"],"id":145318,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.","author":"Ron Kind","tags":["democracy","review","years "],"id":165443,"author_id":"Ron+Kind"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}