Another reason to thank our lucky stars: unless you have the misfortune to be Herbert Schutz, your book did not get this review (from the latest issue of Speculum):
“This book has little to recommend it; indeed, it should embarrass both author and publisher. It is hard to know why this has happened: Brill is a serious, professional publishing house and Schutz an experienced writer, author of four other books, including another with Brill and two published by Yale University Press. But neither author nor press can possibly consider this in the ‘finest hour’ category, or even an acceptable product. And, at its staggering list price of $226, The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts and Architecture is truly a scandal.
“The book’s faults are so numerous and glaring that it is hard to know where to begin...”
(Review of Herbert Schutz’s The Carolingians in Central Europe, by William Diebold)
I think we can agree that any day that does not bring a similar review of one’s own work is a good day, isn’t it?
1 comment on Another Reason to Be Grateful
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plenty
said 2 years ago
Wow, is that person the Simon Cowell of literary criticism or what? [OHMY]
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