On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Abhishek Hazra<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Deepa Mohan<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Now *this* is a book review: >>> >>> http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/58062/ >>> >>> "Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of >>> Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in an ... >> Is it, really, Udhay? I actually detest these kind of super-witty "reviews" ... >> in my opinion, not great reviews.
> Although it is difficult to generalize, but sometimes the reference to > other books can be interesting also. I had enjoyed reading Mike Davis' ... > Perhaps this is a different genre of review all together? a hybrid of > a blurb and a 'proper' review? It's a bad review for a simple reason. Is the reviewer praising it or panning it? I can't even tell if they liked the damn book. -- Charles
