MICHIKO KAKUTANI

[Joe Allonby]

She's just no fun.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nushra MohamedKhan<nushramkhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I actually like her reviews.   I like her style. She doesn't like
> cartoons, but she got Michael Chabon right, and she got Toni Morrison
> right on cartooning, and she praises Wallace, and she got Joseph
> O'Neill right, and Louise Erdrich right, and Franzen, and Roth, and
> Jeeez, she got Pynchon right too. Sorry folks, but she gets to review
> the books because she is qualified and damn good at it. Sure, she's a
> tough critic, but that's a good thing. Seriously, if Pynchon were to
> listen to her, he's write better novels. AGTD is great, but man could
> it be improved if he took out some 300-odd pages and squared it up
> took out a couple few stupid plot lines and a  couplefew dozen
> chanracters and a dozen or two vague re-runs of old material like that
> Lew in the Tarot London stuff.
>
> Books of the Times
> Looking for a Home in the Limbo of Alaska
> By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
> Published: May 1, 2007
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/books/01kaku.html
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/books/04kaku.html
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/books/16book.html
>