NY Times Sunday Book Review (fwd)

[the Robot Vegetable]

>Steve askes (because PG said T. Coraghessan Boyle is bad news):
>>I'm sure I've heard the name but I can't think of the context--why is it
>>bad news? 

>In my opinion TCB is at best an uneven writer - One of his volumes of
>short stories is absolutely brilliant (IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY) - His
>novels are all too often much ado about nothing -   ...

	I have read _Water Music_ and it is a great novel.  It 
shows, though, that he is probably abetter short story writer.  It
is one of those anti-historical novels, if I understand the word
correctly.  It has been applied to _Mason & Dixon_.  The story is
of Mungo Park, "The First White Man To See The Niger."
	It is very funny.

	veg