Reviews for You couldn't make it up

The average rating for You couldn't make it up based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-11-14 00:00:00 Paris Nainggolan This is a book where a man whines because many of the things he likes to do are frowned upon or against the rules. The write up on the back of the book made the book seem more interesting than it actually was.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-25 00:00:00 Tina Jones For those of you who want to explore more of the critical essays of Ambrose Bierce, this is the book for you. My favorite quote from this book is: "There is thunder in Europe, but it is in America that the lightning will fall." As always, I love this man's writings. For Americans, there is Twain and then there is Bierce. And that's really it. Faulkner I don't really hold to their candles because he tried to out wit his readers. You were either with him or you weren't. And if you weren't, you were the joke. While Twain held the light up to expose injustices, Bierce eviscerated his foes through eloquent prose and put them firmly under the lens of his microscope to expose them as individuals, and all their frailties, before the world. Bierce, in his essays, proves that he was a giant in that he took on Giants, and ran them through. This was a great book.