Doper Actors, Artists, Musicians, Singers, Writers - please, post your best reviews.

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I asked the moderators, and they gave their permission for this one.

All you doper creative types - forget our natural self-effacing charm for a moment. I would really like everyone to share your best (so far) review. Please, join right on in, or you’ll make me feel very foolish indeed. Let’s blow our own horns for a bit. I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours. Here goes -

Baritone Le Ministre de l’au-delà as Maximilian (in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide) was hysterical. With his full, solidly reliable voice and immense comic capabilities, he gave a standout performance. He fearlessly approached the ‘politically incorrect’ aspects of his role, making them funny and palatable. And what a falsetto! - from the Winnipeg Free Press

Everybody who has a good review for anything they’ve done - please join in!

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Here’s one for my choir that I posted in 2004. The program was:

  • *Lux Aeterna *by Morten Lauridsen;
  • *Shadows and Light *by John Peterson;
  • Mozart’s Requiem.

I don’t know if it’s the best we’ve ever received, but it was certainly one of the better ones.

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In my case, I can’t really think of a particularly glowing pull quote (though there have been many good reviews).

However, my most gratifying bits were when my novel was named to the Locus Recommended Reading list for first novel, and also was named in the Locus Awards (last item under “First novels”) Since the book was only out about two months when the balloting took place, I think that’s pretty impressive.

Second was when my story “Occurrence at Arroyo de Buho Bridge” received an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois Year’s Best SF.

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Well, normally I do the reviewing rather than getting reviewed. But if you click on the link in my signature, you’ll see where Entertainment Weekly called my website one of the best on the web.

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“TWDuke is a warm and believable Bob Cratchit.” - Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Yes, that was my best published review ever. But I’m still working at it.

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I used to write a lot of erotic spanking stories and post them online. I posted a few stories on a site that has literally thousands of other stories, and one of my stories (one I was particularlyproud of) received the following review from a reader:

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Sadly (but not really surprisingly), it’s this;

DfrntBreign on SoundClick, you got the dopest sounds and I’m feeling your page…I sell beats, check em’ out, tell me what you think, peace. =]

:rolleyes:

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God, I feel like I’m masturbating in public here, but oh, well:

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Oops, I should have provided attribution there - it’s from indiepages.com .

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“This collection of essays is a bright, shining beacon in a dark, humorless landscape. Sauron weaves satire, sarcasm and slapstick in a tapestry so rich, so fulfilling, that you’re torn; you want to savor each word or turn of phrase, but you also want to race to the end of each essay to see what silliness he comes up with next. If you want to laugh, read this collection.”

– Sauron’s mother

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I’m stuck in a multi-day offsite on CrackBerry. Not many formal write-ups - does “Dude, you totally RAWK!!” From a drunken patron count? :wink:

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These are great - keep 'em coming! If it makes it any more interesting, we could expand it to include worst reviews…

My problem with bad reviews is that I don’t have any great quotable ones. I have a couple that are along the lines of “Le Ministre de l’au-delà lacked the vocal presence to overcome his weak characterization of the role.” - Calgary Herald , but I don’t have any of the classic bad reviews where the critic used his imagination to come up with some classic put-down. (“It must have taken a great deal of work to remove all the funny moments from Gianni Schicchi, but apparently Le Ministre de l’au-delà has the discipline required for the task…” Thank Og I’ve never had one like that!)

There are also those reviews where they’ve mentioned every other aspect of the production and missed you, whether through negligence or malice. I had one of those recently where the entire cast of Magic Flute was mentioned by name with a sentence afterwards saying something about how that person had done. My wife was reading it aloud to me and when it got down to how the 2nd Armed Man had sung without saying a word about me as The Speaker, she just started to snort through her nose.

Anyway, if you feel any better about sharing a bad review instead of a good one, I say go with it.

But don’t be shy about the good ones, either - I’m enjoying being even more impressed with all of you.