2.16.2004

"I give my book, uh, I mean this book, five stars!" -- Oh what a tangled web the literati weave...last week, Amazon.com's Canadian site revealed the true identities of anonymous reader-reviewers, and lo, it appears some authors wrote glowing reviews of their own books. Others, like my boy Dave Eggers, spoke glowingly of their special friends...and not so glowingly of their enemies. Thus the whole nerdy war between "elites" like Eggers and the truly insufferable Jonathan Franzen and the comrades of the Underground Literary Alliance is back on.

No comments: