CRITICS: In the middle of the current entertainment awards season, we thought it would be entertaining to show how wrong the critics can be.

Recently, Publishers Weekly editors listed a few of their favorite excerpts from Pushcart editor Bill Henderson’s latest edition of “Rotten Reviews Redux,” which they described as “a collection of the meanest and most scathing reviews of classic books and the writers who penned them.”

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