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Great Scot

Advantages: Hilarious
Disadvantages: You could hurt yourself laughing

(Plenty of different editions of McGonagall on amazon, all at very modest prices). I sometimes wonder how many billions of unpublished writings are floating about in Manuscript Heaven. It’s so easy to write poorly, to have your work rejected, and eve ...

Schmutzie 03.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of William McGonagall

Grossly maligned and misunderstood

Advantages: A true insight of Victorian Values
Disadvantages: Hard to take seriously

William McGonagall is one of the 19th century's true life tragic romantic heroes - especially so because he was blissfully unaware of the fact! His reputation has without doubt been tarnished by the literary prejudices of the age, where snobbery was ri ...

dobieg 23.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of William McGonagall

Probably the worst poetry in the world.

Advantages: Unintentionally hilarious poetry
Disadvantages: Eye-wateringly bad scansion and appalling themes - great in small doses, but not for prolonged reading

McGonagall's poetry is hilariously funny. It completely ignores all the basic rules of writing poetry, and combines this with Victorian melodrama. Widely hailed as the worst poet ever, his works are still in print and easy to find. Here is an excerpt f ...

drewish 29.11.2004 · Read full review
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Wonderful Wyndham

Advantages: An original writer of imaginative and gripping science fiction.
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little dated now.

John Wyndham is a British science fiction writer, who started writing in the thirties, but his best known works were written in the 1950s. As a result, much of his fiction is tinged with echoes from the cold war and can seem dated. However, his sheer imag ...

drewish 03.06.2005 · Read full review
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All about Malorie Blackmans

Advantages: Some info on the writer of Noughts & Crosses
Disadvantages: Bit borin

...I usually shy away from English authors, I don't know why but they don't have the same style as American authors. This is only my opinion and this is what I've found out after read many books, but Malorie Blackman changed that. My mate said she was readin ...

DixieChick10 26.08.2007 · Read full review
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