From a New York Times bestselling author comes an argument against snark---the nasty combination of snide and sarcasm---with lessons on how to live without it by thinking and debating with true wit and intelligence.
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[Audio Review] New York Times best-selling author Denby (Great Books), a staff writer for The New Yorker, here presents a detailed and enjoyable argument regarding snark, today's ever-prevalent combination of snide and sarcasm. He traces the history of snark through the ages, defines it into subcategories (e.g., literary snark equals satire), and divides contemporary snark into acceptable and unacceptable categories based on his personal assessments. Six-time Audie Award nominee William Dufris (The Futurist) gives a terrific read, his tone and pacing bordering on the snark-astic. Highly recommended for adult audiences. Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH --Library Journal
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David Denby is a longtime film critic for The New Yorker; prior to that he was film critic for New York Magazine. He lives in New York City.
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39 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lazy writing, Lazy points,
By Brigid (Saranac Lake, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snark (Hardcover)
The very fact that Denby would choose to "take on the snarkers" by being snarky about them undercuts his point. If he truly finds the form so distasteful why is it good enough for those he disagrees with. Additionally he doesn't seem to understand what "snark" really is. This reads like someone who doesn't get it rather than any kind of serious cultural critique. It also features some serious factual errors that serve to undercut his point even further. When coupled with the lazy sexism inherent in some of his points (any woman who writes anything mean about another woman has some form of "cat fight syndrome," it's true) it makes the book nearly unreadable.
54 of 68 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Just so I understand...,
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This review is from: Snark (Hardcover)
...Snark is a detrimental philosophical outlook because it viciously attacks without reason. Writing books about snark however, where the author attacks only those with whom he disagrees, is an honest, noble calling? How is using a narrow personal interpretation of the world, while utterly ignoring the relative merits of a person's argument, a just cause?
This waste of paper would be illogical enough if he only set up the battle lines between liberal and conservative, an already idiotic delineation. But attacking fellow liberals for supposedly attacking other liberals? Brilliant. With the fundamental concept of the book being such a shocking failure, it's just nitpicking to mention the mountains of simple factual errors. But, god forbid a member of the mainstream media bother with simple fact checking. Wait, was that snarky?
37 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
craptastic,
By Truck Nutz (Olympia, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snark (Hardcover)
What do you get when you combine Karl Rove's respect for the truth with John McCain's understanding of the internet? Well, that's clearly what David Denby aspired to, but he falls short. Poorly conceived, pedantically written and shoddily "researched," this turd is too insubstantial even to serve as a serviceable doorstop.
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David Denby, New York, Private Eye, Barack Obama, Highly Intermittent History, Modest Proposal, East Side, Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton, The Dunciad, United States, The Hunting of the Snark, Jedediah Purdy, Bill O'Reilly, Tom Cruise, Juicy Campus, Vanity Fair, Cap'n Bob, Tom Wolfe, Black Panther, Radical Chic Browse Sample Pages:
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David Denby, New York, Private Eye, Barack Obama, Highly Intermittent History, Modest Proposal, East Side, Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton, The Dunciad, United States, The Hunting of the Snark, Jedediah Purdy, Bill O'Reilly, Tom Cruise, Juicy Campus, Vanity Fair, Cap'n Bob, Tom Wolfe, Black Panther, Radical Chic Browse Sample Pages:
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