Title: Messy Book, by fermed
Product review: What could have (should have) been the intriguing history of the Absolut bottle and its contents of Swedish vodka, turns out to be a disorganized compendium that includes so much dull extraneous material that at least this reader was forced to abandon the book several times, only to return to it out of a sense of duty. Not, certainly, out of love for good writing.The material in this book, carefully trimmed, might have made a single excellent article of the old New Yorker variety. Instead the book contains a forest of irrelevancies into which the reader is dumped, promptly to get lost. When, at last, the "biography of a bottle" is addressed, it comes in fits and starts that may be entertaining to an adman, but not to the general reader.Not recommended for those with a low threshold for boredom. Are there no longer book editors plying their trade?
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