[rmgatto]

The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.

Good writing. This reporter has the talent necessary for a move up to a major paper.

[goldstategop]

This is one memoir that can be safely said to be written by its subject. No ghost-writer would leave in passages most people would sooner skip over.

[COUNTrecount]

Michiko Kakutani...Pulitzer Prize winner 1998



http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1998/criticism/bio/

[Aeronaut]

Good writing. This reporter has the talent necessary for a move up to a major paper.

Spewing. That's really funny!