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Yann Martel Responds To Negative Reviews: 'I Don't Live Or Die By It'

First Posted: 06/22/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:15 PM ET

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The review spread across Twitter like wildfire. On April 12 at 5:57 p.m. the noted literary blogger Edward Champion posted a link to his evisceration of Yann Martel's new novel, Beatrice and Virgil. Under the headline "Why Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil is the Worst Book of the Decade," Mr. Champion exhausted some 2,400 words surgically picking the novel apart.

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The review spread across Twitter like wildfire. On April 12 at 5:57 p.m. the noted literary blogger Edward Champion posted a link to his evisceration of Yann Martel's new novel, Beatrice and Virgil. U...
The review spread across Twitter like wildfire. On April 12 at 5:57 p.m. the noted literary blogger Edward Champion posted a link to his evisceration of Yann Martel's new novel, Beatrice and Virgil. U...
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07:15 PM on 04/23/2010
A truly good writer can hold a reader's attention throughout the story.

I was told by several people to meddle through the first 150 pages of "The Life Of Pi" before the story and the book would start to become interesting.

I did, and the ending was pretty good. However, I promised to never read anything by this writer again because, quiet frankly, I don't want to wait for 1/3 of the story to be finished before it gets good.
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