Yes, I noticed last night when I was writing this post that Google had no results for pseudish cockwaffle.
Clearly I need to define it. OK, pseudish cockwaffle is contained in those reviews that, instead of telling the reader how good or bad the book is and whether or not they would like it, instead draws upon literary theory and criticism to draw pointless parallels, to over-analyse and (frequently) to miss the point entirely.*
It's "pseudish" from "pseud", meaning "a pretentious person that pretends to know a lot about the Arts when he in fact knows very little or nothing".
It's "waffle" because waffle means "to talk unendingly, with no point to your conversation about totally idiotic things".
And it's "cock" because often the subtext of the review by a male reviewer (they're usually, but not always male, at least in a loose sense of the word) is "My penis is this large. No really, it is."
* Two examples: Ray Bradbury once gave a lecture at a university about Fahrenheit 451 and walked out when the class insisted that the book was about censorship and wouldn't accept what he said his own book was about.
And James Joyce's grandson, attending a scholarly conference about his grandfather's work said that his grandfather would have "died laughing" at all the things being said.
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Clearly I need to define it. OK, pseudish cockwaffle is contained in those reviews that, instead of telling the reader how good or bad the book is and whether or not they would like it, instead draws upon literary theory and criticism to draw pointless parallels, to over-analyse and (frequently) to miss the point entirely.*
It's "pseudish" from "pseud", meaning "a pretentious person that pretends to know a lot about the Arts when he in fact knows very little or nothing".
It's "waffle" because waffle means "to talk unendingly, with no point to your conversation about totally idiotic things".
And it's "cock" because often the subtext of the review by a male reviewer (they're usually, but not always male, at least in a loose sense of the word) is "My penis is this large. No really, it is."
* Two examples: Ray Bradbury once gave a lecture at a university about Fahrenheit 451 and walked out when the class insisted that the book was about censorship and wouldn't accept what he said his own book was about.
And James Joyce's grandson, attending a scholarly conference about his grandfather's work said that his grandfather would have "died laughing" at all the things being said.