Template:Did you know nominations/Logan (novel)

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 07:17, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Logan (novel)

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... that Logan by John Neal was judged to be one of the two most incoherent American novels of the 19th century? Source: Page 251 of this 877-page study of American literature from the Revolution through 1940 says "The critical reception of The Hawks of Hawk Hollow (1835) was not enthusiastic .... Only Neal’s Logan can compare with this book in point of incoherence."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kill all the things

Created by Dugan Murphy (talk). Self-nominated at 01:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - Some problems.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Dugan Murphy: Ok so I have some problems with the hook. The hook states an opinion, especially a strong one like that, in pure wikivoice with no indicator of who said it. You should state who said that in the hook and also put the statement in quotations so that it doesn't seem so strongly correct. Also, I don't see the hook in the article, though I might've missed it. Still, it is required for the hook to be placed in the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:50, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke: Thanks for reviewing! The information in the hook is in the sentence preceding citation 45, but I guess that's neither here nor there. I'm not sure that I can meet your requirement and retain the current hook's punchiness, so how about this alternative? You'll find the fact in the article, cited by citation 46.

- ALT1: ... that author John Neal claimed reading too much of his book Logan would kill you? Source: Page 44 of this book provides this quote from John Neal published in Blackwood's Magazine about Logan: "It should be taken, as people take opium. A grain may exhilarate–more may stupify–much will be death." Dugan Murphy (talk) 05:12, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Hook seems good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:40, 16 January 2023 (UTC)