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Review title: Don't read this because you like Updike
Product review: Because it is hardly about Updike at all. And if you read it because you like Baker, I'd wager there is a very good chance you will like him less afterwards.Baker comes across as a smarmy, smirking, egotistical, overreaching, worrisome irritating twit. Maybe this is supposed to be funny; well, it isn't. He came up with a stupid idea for an essay, and despite its shortness, it is stretched out and completely empty.I read this book because it came to hand, and I am interested in Updike. I finished it because it is so slight and quick a read, and I gave it numerous chances to turn around. Certainly I should have known enough to stop when he announces that writing novels is really the purview of women and homosexual men, and that he and Updike succeed only despite the fact that they are heterosexual males. Well, here's your opportunity to learn from my mistake: skip this thing.This is a truly horrid, pointless little book.
