I was actually less offended by the Bloom hatchet-job because he clearly doesn't understand him (perhaps deliberately, there's a whiff of patricidal rage there). The Cormac McCarthy one was just gross, though. This man seems to read looking for what might be wrong with a book, and that isn't reading.
Yeah, that one. He accuses McCarthy of pretentiousness, among other things. This from someone whose every word, every ill-dropped name, every outlandish metaphor is pitched to convey smug omniscience and superiority to his reviewees.
Not that it's a stance he invented, that or the singsong Euphuistic "here's what may be a fault, here's what may be a virtue, here's the fault recapped but moderated and this time I'm sure of it" Time magazine paragraph logic he never deviates from. But people have a choice of becoming telemarketers, car salespeople, things like that. And nice ones don't.
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 04:05 am (UTC)You mean the review from the summer, of NCFOM, right?
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:18 am (UTC)Not that it's a stance he invented, that or the singsong Euphuistic "here's what may be a fault, here's what may be a virtue, here's the fault recapped but moderated and this time I'm sure of it" Time magazine paragraph logic he never deviates from. But people have a choice of becoming telemarketers, car salespeople, things like that. And nice ones don't.