Title: Best Book You Ever Read? Puh-leese!
Product review: Anyone who says this is the best book they've ever read hasn't read enough books. I truly can't remember the last book I read that I thought was worse than this one. I prefer shorter novels with well-drawn characters. I prefer authors who actually want their readers to use their imaginations and do some thinking on their own. For example, Ian McEwan or J.M. Coetzee or Penelope Fitzgerald or Alice McDermott or Amy Bloom or Magnus Mills or Tim Winton or Graham Swift. Read something shortlisted for the Booker Prize if you want thoughtful, provocative literature. Tom Wolfe can't hold a candle to any of these authors. The Right Stuff was well done. The Bonfire of the Vanities was superficial, but entertaining. A Man in Full was none of these. Just another example of media-driven, overblown hype.
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