Bad Review of the Day, by David Ulin in the LAT, on James Frey's new novel: "Bright Shiny Morning" is a terrible book. One of the worst I've ever read...an execrable novel, a literary train wreck without even the good grace to be entertaining.

Runner-up goes to Janet Maslin, who actually liked the book but used a cringe-inducting in-the-style-of-the-writer approach that gives "bad review" a whole nother meaning.