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06/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Review: Clinton book big but shallow"

Posted by steve @ 02:57 PM EST [Link]

DOES ANYONE LIKE IT?: A lot of people are buying Bill Clinton's My Life but no one seems to be enjoying it. An AP review written by Jerry Schwartz calls the book a "daily grind" that's big but "shallow."

Part of the problem is that "My Life" is relentlessly chronological, especially the second half of the book, which is devoted to his presidency. Almost every paragraph describes another meeting with a foreign leader or the signing of another bill or delivery of another speech.

The effect is mind-numbing. It's like being locked in a small room with a very gregarious man who insists on reading his entire appointment book, day by day, beginning in 1946.

If I want to read something that will put me to sleep, I have a copy of James Joyce's Ulyssess for that.

Read on.