Critical and popular reception[edit]

In October 2004, David Orr of the New York Times Book Review said "it remains one of the best literary destinations on the Web."^[9] In 2005, Time magazine included it as one of the 50 Coolest Websites 2005.^[10] John Freeman of the National Book Critics Circle said of the site in 2006, "The complete review seemed to appear out of nowhere, but suddenly it became one of the most useful aggregating sites on the web for book information and news, especially from abroad."^[3] Chad W. Post at the University of Rochester in 2009 said, "I don’t think there’s a reviewer, or publication, in America that’s as diverse as Michael Orthofer's Complete Review. Nor as meticulous about record keeping and self-aware about its reviewing trends."^[11] A February 2016 article in The New Yorker by Indian novelist Karan Mahajan featured an in-depth profile of the website and Orthofer.^[12]