REVIEWS, AND REVIEWS I'D LIKE TO SEE Writers who absolutely MUST run off at the mouth (or word processor) when they write reviews totally bore me. A great example is the diarrhea of the mind published in The New York Observer HERE by Andrew Sullivan. Jesus, just say the dam book stinks, has not one insight, is a propaganda tome for the Clintons, don't buy it, and then let it go. I'm reminded of the old Oscar Levant quote. When asked his opinion of a play by one of the literatti old Oscar simply said, "It stinks."
"Who are you to say the play stinks?"
"Who do you have to be to say it stinks?, snapped Oscar.
Exactly. But I guess people read reviews instead of the book and then pretend they read the book.