More than 20 quotes tagged savage

1. “I cannot imagine any physician or scientist who has a job, who will have the time to read this paper.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in medicine

2. “Finally, it is impossible for the reader to keep track of the hundreds (thousands?) of acronyms in the paper. If there ever is an award for most acronyms in a paper, this one would win it hands down.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review

3. “the authors seem to be reinventing the wheel and a flat tire to go along with it.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review

4. “Your model is a black hole from which no light escapes.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review

5. “The author writes like a drunken after-dinner speaker.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in the social sciences

6. “The lack of negative controls … results in the authors being lost in the funhouse. Unfortunately, I do not think they even realize this.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology

7. “The finding is not novel and the solution induces despair.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology

8. “The writing and data presentation are so bad that I had to leave work and go home early and then spend time to wonder what life is about.”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology

9. “Reject – More holes than my grandad’s string vest!”

   Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology

10. “The biggest problem with this manuscript, which has nearly sucked the will to live out of me, is the terrible writing style.”

    Peer review: Anonymous reviewer on Manuscript under review, A journal in microbiology

11. “Walked up to the Angel, looked at it, turned around, got back in the car. Only good thing was the parking was free. (It was a) waste of five minutes.”

    Customer reviews: Jenkinsv on Angel of the North, Gateshead, TripAdvisor

12. “Let me tell you we should rename it medium Ben. I’ve seen bigger LEGO towers! (I) will return if they build it higher.”

    Customer reviews: Aimee T on Big Ben, London, TripAdvisor

13. “A hole. A very, very large hole.”

    Customer reviews: Anonymous reviewer on Grand Canyon National Park

14. “Gastric exorcism at 30,000 feet. Don’t use the bathroom on a Delta flight. That stench is from me, seven years ago.”

    Customer reviews: I Like Cheese on Haribo Sugar-Free Gummy Bears, Amazon

15. “Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”

    Critics: Dorothy Parker on The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (1928), The New Yorker

16. “Cats is the biggest disaster of the decade, and possibly thus far in the millennium. It's Battlefield Earth with whiskers.”

    Critics: Adam Graham on Cats (2019), The Detroit News

17. “Sie schildern ein Treffen mit Uwe Johnson. Sie schildern es wunderbar. Das kann keiner besser als Sie. Aber es sind nur fünf Seiten von 781.”

    Critics: Marcel Reich-Ranicki on Ein weites Feld by Günter Grass (1995), Der Spiegel (in German)

18. “It's terrible, though in such a bizarre way, unique even, that it might have prospects as a cult book, or at any rate an enduring curiosity. But I wouldn't bet on it.”

    Critics: Owen Richardson on List of the Lost by Morrissey (2015), The Sydney Morning Herald

19. “It probably isn't possible for a single movie to reverse all social progress made since the civil-rights era, but Norbit, the latest broadside from Eddie Murphy, does its best to turn back the clock.”

    Critics: Scott Tobias on Norbit (2007), The A.V. Club

20. “If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this.”

    Critics: Chuck Klosterman on Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu (2011), Grantland

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