Title: I'd rather walk than drive this Ford
Product review: "Independence Day" is the worst. Just atrocious. And here's the reason why: Ford is a phony. His work, as a whole, is a boring, New Age post-Hemingway dress-up party thrown by a host who's more interested in retreading better, more original writers' ideas than in being a wayfarer himself. And for his fans who feel they're getting a more "authentic" writer over the "fast food fiction" of today should read their Kurt Vonnegut and Donald Barthelme again to see that you can indeed write a text that moves quickly without sacrificing any depth or lack of big ideas.So I totally concur with the other readers who don't "get" Richard Ford. Here's the thing: they're getting him just fine. And there's nothing there. "The Sportswriter" was as humorless as they come, and "Independence Day" falls right into line.
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