MICHIKO KAKUTANI

[Otto]

Why do they let someone do the review who hates the author? (as we all
know from the ATD-review by Kakutani).


“Inherent Vice” is a much more cohesive performance than the author’s
last novel, the bloated and pretentious “Against the Day,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/books/04kaku.html

2009/8/4 Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>:
> Whoops. I forgot to set the Subject line. And plain text went all weird
> on me yet again, something to do with hotmail...
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> MICHIKO KAKUTANI: "The characters in this novel, however, are decidedly
> less three-dimensional."
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> Now, y'see, it's fresh insights like this that justify her salary and
> position....
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> At first I though she said 'less than three-dimensional', but there's no
> 'than'. So, which characters are she comparing IV's to? She's previously
> mentioned COL49 and GR in her review, is she saying those books did have
> 3D characters?
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> A myopic, mean-spirited review.
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