Killer book review sentences

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Monday, April 27, 2009 - 3:53 AM

In the category of "book reviews that would fit on Twitter," we have this sentence from Louise Richardson's New York Times Book Review of Michael Burleigh's Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism:

To appreciate the virtues of this book (it is, in its way, an exceptional synthesis), one has to make a conscious and concerted effort to ignore the condescending tone, the incessant sneering, the unsupported assertions and the gross generalizations.