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Title: Says more about its fans than America
Review: A good writer has written a deeply irritating and pretentious book. It has brilliant spells but at other times it is so pompous it's embarrassing. "Cosmologists of waste"...what does it mean? To love this book, you have to lack confidence in your own taste and understanding, the kind of person who goes to exhibitions (by the likes of Klara Sax?) because you think it's good for you, and because you are afraid your friends might get there before you. Go back to Saul Bellow for brainy thrills.
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