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Review title: The perfect book for those . . .
Product review: Lame. Revealing a knowledge of literature that begins and ends with Tom Wolfe, Kurt Anderson makes a self-conscious, overblown bid for upper-middle-brow media stardom. Smug, heavy handed, infested with trendy cliché-ridden observations and held together by shockingly feeble comic set pieces, 'Turn of the Century' is an exasperating read that continually reminds the reader of how much better Don Delillo handled similar material, a full ten years ago, in his vastly superior 'White Noise'. Two stars may seem like an excessively generous grade for Anderson's limpid debut novel, but an incontestable fact remains: Kurt Anderson has, indeed, succeeded in writing the perfect book for those who think Maureen Dowd is witty and Evelyn Waugh was a woman. (Something of an accomplishment in light of said target group's immense cultural influence in publishing circles and elsewhere.)
