Rush Limbaugh wins Children's Book Award; American history loses

EW.com ^ | May 15, 2014 | JoJo Marshall

[SMGFan]

EW didn’t receive a review copy of this book, so we have not actually read it (consider this top of my weekend to-do list), but here are some reactions from other critics:

[Buckeye McFrog]

“I did not read the book, but here’s my report on it” only earned me an “F” in ninth-grade English class.

If only I had known that it could have also landed me a job with Entertainment Weekly...

[Buckeye McFrog]

1. The book is BS because time travel is impossible.

Wow, these guys must have been BRUTAL on H.G. Wells

[GeronL]

Socialist Utopia is also impossible outside of a prison, but that never stopped them

[goodnesswins]

I voted...it was a public vote via a website

[Arrowhead1952]

Have you been to the DUmp since Rush won the award? Bet there are exploding heads.

[subterfuge]

EW didnt receive a copy?

My 10yo grandson managed to get ahold of one.

[Verginius Rufus]

If the internet had been around, you could have done what some of my students do--instead of reading the book, copy a review of it from the web. Of course the intelligent analysis and scholarly vocabulary usually make me suspicious that they didn't write the report.

I had a student a couple of years ago who turned in what she claimed was her report, but she failed to notice that the review she had copied was about two books, the one she was pretending to have read and another book.

[230FMJ]

Note to self: Do not post on FR until AM coffee has been consumed.