Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally …

George Orwell
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ✨ George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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