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David A. Westbrook's avatar

I keep reading TMR reviews and finding myself more interested in the critic than the author of the book in question. I've almost always enjoyed the reviews, thought they were well written, perceptive. But I've not read the book, or heard from the author. So I'm a bit worried about "the dissatisfied critic" becoming the house style. More deeply, part of the point of TMR, as I understand it, is to find the point in literary fiction -- and skillful analysis of yet another ultimately pointless novel hardly makes me order the book, read more deeply, etc. While excoriating the bad is the Lord's work, sometimes I want to learn about something I should read, because it's fantastic. Like Glass Century, maybe. :) Anyway, just saying. And, again, this essay and most all of what I'm reading from TMR are really well done. Progress. Keep up the good work!

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Darren Haber's avatar

Excellent review, very nicely done.

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