Title: Who cares what Joseph Epstein thinks?
Product review: I picked this book up at an airport bookstore because - after a few quick looks - it seemed worth paying for.I WAS SO WRONG!This book is filled with meanness after meanness. Epstein tells us in the first chapter that he is a snob - but he makes himself seem like a charming snob, reformed, almost repentant. NOT TRUE!This man drops name after name of people, books and artists (the more obscure the "better," of course). He goes on and on about his fancy (then fancier) raincoats. He envies poor dead Allan Bloom his possessions. And Epstein is so far gone that he even thinks stories of how he "used" his kids are winning.If only I could give this book negative stars!If only I could get my money back.
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