Chomsky's review of Skinner's 'Verbal behavior' is one of the few book reviews that can be said to have been of major scientific importance, far surpassing in influence the book it was reviewing (here: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967----.htm )
I just came across an exceptionally good book review -- Jack Goody on Maurice Godelier's 'Metamorphoses of kinship' (2004) (here: http://newleftreview.org/II/36/jack-goody-the-labyrinth-of-kinship), which contains much more original thinking than one often finds in stand-alone articles (or in many books!). Anybody got other nominations for book reviews that have had a major influence on them, or their discipline?
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