More reviews of ATD

[Jay Herzog]

Does anyone else feel that the reviews in the smaller venues/papers
are more generally insightful and to the point than the big 'uns like
the NY Times?

Seems that way to me....

J.

On 12/10/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> what got me was that Shindler is a freelancer from Kansas City; you'd think
> the Post would've had more of an interest considering as so much of the
> novel takes place in Colorado.
>
> rich
>
>
>  On 12/10/06, John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:
> > Shindler's review has a few inaccuracies or vagaries. Merle Rideout
> > isn't part of the Inconvenience crew, for starters. Pretty weird mistake
> > to make. In fact, there's not much in there that can't be gleaned from
> > reading the blurb, the first few pages, and maybe a couple of other
> > reviews.
> >
> > Not saying that's what happened in this case, but I wonder how many (and
> > which) reviews were written by people who didn't actually finish the
> > book, or just skimmed it? It's not unknown for a reviewer to do this in
> > order to meet deadlines; some publications put a premium on being the
> > first to get reviews out there.
> >

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