NYTimes re Amis' new novel

[Toby G Levy]

Whoa!  It's been a while since I read a review as savage as this one.

The lack of humor charge is supported by this cute little article:

http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/11/16/kakutani/

If you want to take a look at the sourpuss, check out this site, which
mentions that she is 48 years old and has been a book reviewer for the
Times for twenty long years:

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/criticism/bio/

Last November Matt Gross wrote
(http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/books/n_7968/):

"Dave Eggers, Donna Tartt, and Zadie Smith must be licking their wounds
after Times critic Michiko Kakutani's recent drubbing of their sophomore
books. "

Well I read the Tartt and the Smith and liked them both a lot.  So I
guess I have to say that a review by Kakutani doesn't hold much water in
my opinion.

Toby

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