Blogging at the Guardian, John Harris looked at the most overrated and underrated books of the year.The Road was my favorite book of the year, so it stung me a little to read:
As someone who thought Cormac McCarthy's The Road was all cod-biblical prose and apocalyptic posturing, it was nice to read Tyler Cowen - whoever he is - faint-praising it as "a slightly more earnest version of good genre fiction".
Oh well.
I liked this passage better:
[Of the opinions that] made me briefly irritated...: Duncan Falowell's swashbuckling swipe at a whole array of people and things - Norman Davies, Michel Houellebecq, Alain De Botton, London A-Z, Zadie Smith, The Bible, The Koran and good old Philip Roth - is wrong on at least four counts, five if he really does mean the iconic map-book.
Read Harris' entire post here.
John Harris is the author of three books, including The Dark Side Of The Moon: The Making Of The Pink Floyd Masterpiece (4th Estate, 2005).
--Marshal Zeringue
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