Truthiness in Advertising
On 2/8/07, I reviewed Richard North Patterson's novel Exile for the New York Times Book Review. It read, it part:
"I won’t ruin the ending for you because Patterson accomplishes that all on his own, revealing way too much way too soon. And yet, despite its occasionally gastropodous pacing, Exile delivers the sort of torn-from-the-headlines story Patterson’s fans have come to expect."An ad in today's NY Times for the paperback editions quotes that review:
"Torn from the headlines . . . Exile delivers. --The New York Times Book Review"
posted by Andrew Ervin at
9/04/2007
1 Comments:
Be careful, or your next review:
"I wish this book was 200 pages shorter than its appalling, cringe-inducing 210 page length. I was thoroughly unimpressed with the protagonist, a woman
who speaks almost entirely in cliches and aphorisms which pass for timeless wisdom - or so Mitch Albom deludedly believes. I highly doubt that any fiction writer working today could paint a less convincing portrait of a mother and father and their family life together. It fully taxes my descriptive capabilities to adequately impart the awfulness of this narrative. Someday, when my child shows an interest in writing fiction, this terrible book will be Exhibit A in my lecture on how NOT to write."
...might conceivably be abridged by the publisher to:
"I wish I was a woman so Mitch Albom could father my child."
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