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Title: unintentionally entertaining
Review: In this novel, about a professor of creative writing, the author exhibits every example of bad writing that she is trying to satire. Her characters are comprise a cardboard collection of cliched details. They are unsympathetic and the reader could care less about their fates. She uses "yeasty smell" twice in 15 pages. The plot is predictable. What else? The funniest part is when Prose attempts to show us the "brilliant writing" of Anglea Argo. If you want to read a REALLY funny and beautifully written send-up of the academic world, read Nabokov's Pnin. If you want to see a wonderful example of writings within a novel, read Byatt's Possession.
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