Best review in ages

[yendi]

curt_holman linked to this review, by B. R. Myers , of Tree of Smoke. He is definitely not someone who thinks it should be on every "best of the year" list. :-)

Mind you, I haven't read it, but he makes a better case against the book than any of the supportive reviews I've read make for it.

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[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

My wife has Myers' book A Reader's Manifesto -- the entire book (which is actually pretty short) similarly takes the piss out of many of the Big Literary Writers of the last twenty years or so. Not being much for the Big Literary Writers myself, I enjoyed it immensely. :)