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"Daniel Wagner's A Movie ... and a Book is the worst book I have ever voluntarily read," writes Aleksander Hemon in Slate. "Wagner is a 29-year-old snowboarder from Switzerland and has never written a book before. It seems that he has never read one either. Beginning with the absurd title, every page reveals such rich ineptitude in thinking and writing that its 100 or so pages feel endless...[much later]...It is no longer necessary to be able to write in order to be a writer. You just have to appear cool, and some publisher, forgetting what brought him to books in the first place, will pick up the meanderings you jotted down stoned out of your head."

Ouch. Read the rest of this masterpiece in literary evisceration here.