"Book Digest: November 12, 2006" by Robert Birnbaum
14th Nov 2006, 00:57 GMT
A Year in Sports; Alexis de Tocqueville; The Children’s Hospital; Big-Box Swindle; Exile on Main St.; The Lay of the Land; The Photobook In Richard Powers’s excellent newest novel, The Echo Maker, a brain scientist contemplates the bad reviews attendant to his freshly published booka novel experience for him. And he concludes that, for those involved in the review business, there is no gain to positively reviewing books by well-established writers. Whether or not that observation is true, there is a fishy smell emanating from the book reviewing community and it occurred to me (or rather I was reminded) as I was reading Powers’s riveting story that more people read the reviews of a book than read the book. And since a book cannot be done justice in only 700 words, its reputation rests on incomplete and possibly ill-informed commentary by so-called literary experts. Methinks not a good state of affairs but it does put me in mind of this passage from John le Carré in Russia House: I do not like experts.... Click here to continue reading this article. Visit The Morning News.
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