[visualops]

Will have to give Keiller credit this time, his review is very funny and the book sounds like so much bloviating idiocy.
"And what's with the flurries of rhetorical questions? Is this how the French talk or is it something they save for books about America? "What is a Republican? What distinguishes a Republican in the America of today from a Democrat?" Lévy writes, like a student padding out a term paper. "What does this experience tell us?" he writes about the Mall of America. "What do we learn about American civilization from this mausoleum of merchandise, this funeral accumulation of false goods and nondesires in this end-of-the-world setting? What is the effect on the Americans of today of this confined space, this aquarium, where only a semblance of life seems to subsist?" And what is one to make of the series of questions - 20 in a row - about Hillary Clinton, in which Lévy implies she is seeking the White House to erase the shame of the Lewinsky affair? Was Lévy aware of the game 20 Questions, commonly played on long car trips in America? Are we to read this passage as a metaphor of American restlessness? Does he understand how irritating this is? Does he? Do you? May I stop now?"

[Sam the Sham]

I absolutely loved that part. I was going to post it but I see you got to it first.

[summer]

LOL....I just now read your post #6 - you posted the same excerpt I did! (Well, I included a bit more!) :)

[Lochlainnach]

Does he shave his chest?

[Cincinna]

How does BHL really feel about America? Do we Care?
He is quoted in the review of his Magnum Opus in the great intellectual journal NY Magazine thusly:

“Everything, my dear. I will tell you. Sometimes in your private life you have a mistress you love, love being with. You spend time to time in a grand hotel, with good room service, great champagne, and you separate—and when you are really in love with her, you inevitably think, Could I wake up with her, near her every morning? And then you try it. This is exactly what I did in America. America was a great mistress. I had a great f--k with America. It was like a weekend in the Hotel du Cap.”