Title: POORLY WRITTEN REVIEW OF A VERY INTERESTING PREMISE
Review: Janet Malcolm takes a very interesting premise--the relationship of a journalist to his subject--and turns it into a trite essay on the gruesome MacDonald murders. The book's words seem to indicate that Malcolm, herself, fell for MacDonald's smooth veneer--she waxes longingly about the fact that he can break a doughnut and not drop any of the sugar! Who cares? Had she stuck to her subject matter--the relationship between journalist and the one being written about this could have been a good book. But the book's contents indicate to me that Malcolm had another, hidden agenda that involved her choice of the heinous MacDonald as subject matter.
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