I was delighted to see Philip Roth on the shortlist for this year's Bad Sex Award (the only literary prize worth caring about), but a part of me would like to see Jonathan Littell win. I never finished The Kindly Ones, and Littell's nomination makes me feel slightly vindicated: his book was so sloppy that I wondered if his publisher ever bothered to send the manuscript to an editor.
November 21, 2009
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Have you seen the length of a lot of new book releases the past few years? I don't think anyone's bothering to send their ms's through an editor anymore.
Speaking of terrible books, I got "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown, from the library last week. (I couldn't resist.) The dude actually refers to his character Robert Langdon as "Robert Langdon" throughout the entire book. What is that? Again, I'm left with two choices: there's no editors left, or people like books that assume you're too dumb to remember the name of the main character from chapter to chapter. Either possibility is scary.
So glad to hear you weren't a fan of "The Kindly Ones." Who actually liked that book?
Posted by: Citizen Reader | November 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM