FTA: "Fortunately, the Times brought in a guest reviewer to handle this admittedly niche tome, rather than handing the task over to their in-house book-reviewing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Michiko Kakutani and Janet Maslin. Unfortunately, they’ve forced their ringer (Jeanine Basinger, whose contributor’s note shows her to be up to snuff) to adopt the paper’s nincompoopish style."ROTFLMAO! Bravo!!
emfkDec 16, 2008
FTA: "Fortunately, the Times brought in a guest reviewer to handle this admittedly niche tome, rather than handing the task over to their in-house book-reviewing Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Michiko Kakutani and Janet Maslin. Unfortunately, they’ve forced their ringer (Jeanine Basinger, whose contributor’s note shows her to be up to snuff) to adopt the paper’s nincompoopish style."ROTFLMAO! Bravo!!
authorfriendlyDec 17, 2008
Here here. NY Times is not high brow in its reviews, it is no brow
reezerDec 17, 2008
I sense a lot of hatred. 10 bucks says he was fired by the NY Times at one point.
blinker1315Dec 17, 2008
He wasn't.
imattkDec 17, 2008
I love the New York Times -- lots of extra pages on Sunday to lay down underneath our cat's kitty litter box.