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Title: Superficially clever in many sections but it comes up short.
Review: The book attempts to be an observation about the unreliability of language. Stories turn out to be of questionable accuracy as further clues about them are found later in the book. There are slips of the tongue, accusations of plagiarism and many different variations of a story and these also cast doubt on the reliability of the stories told. The chapter involving Galvanauskas with its emphasis on the critical theory about the struggle by the reader to master a text seems to be a way of throwing down the gauntlet to the reader. However the author gets too carried away with his admittedly clever games and they become the point of the book instead of whatever he wants to say about language. Ultimately, there is not enough payoff to justify the time the reader has to spend nailing down the complications. Also, "An Open Mind", the long chapter in the middle, has a non-credible central character and this completely takes the steam of the book.
