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Insanely well-written, insanely self-serving, Mar 5 2004

I'll start with the positives. Technically, Don DeLillo is one of the very best authors I have ever read. His prose is extremely readable, engaging, and enjoyable. This book can certainl be enjoyed on the merit of the quality of writing alone.
Unfortunately, his content has to muck it all up. Like so many post-modern writers (Eggers, Wallace, etc...) DeLillo is far too clever for his own good. For instance: Jack Gladney, the main character is a Professor of "Hitler Studies" who gains weight and dressed in all black in order to affect an air of greater importance. DeLillo apparently thinks this is a subtle suggestion that academia is nothing more than bloated, pointless,… Read more

not unbiased, but more unbiased than many conservatives say, Mar 4 2004

A quick scan through the reviews of this book claim that Toobin "bellows" about racism (he actually spent two paragraphs on the issue, and acknowledges that it was not NEARLY as significant as many Gore supporters would claim), unfairly bashes Katherine Harris (even Fox News portrayed her as a dolt, so Toobin is not alone here), and that he generalizes about those involved (he actually details personalities of several individuals of both sides, and his generalizations are limited to his descriptions of groups of hundreds - ie "the Gore campaign).

That said, this is not an unbiased book. Toobin unquestionably sympathizes with the Gore campaign, and seems to almost root for… Read more

ugh, Nov 10 2003

Don't believe the hype. This is horrendous.
Just because this is Radiohead, a band I would have considered among my favorites before this excrementally horrible piece of garbage, does not mean this is good. Anyone who says otherwise is just as big a sheep as Thom Yorke so frequently writes about.
This isn't music, this is atmosphere, and harshly unpleasant atmosphere at that. I'm truly at a loss to describe how mind-numbingly bad this is, but I'll try. If you don't like melody, buy this album. If you like skittering, slithering rythms with nothing else adorning them, buy this album. If you like non-musical bursts and bleeps of sound, buy this album. If you can't stand guitars,… Read more