A Non-review

Newsweek's Malcolm Jones was given Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games to review -- and put it down "after more than 100 pages". In his defence, in this non-review, he says: "the first 100 pages are good but not great." And: "My time is precious. Your time is, too. Who has enough time in the day to do all that we want?" In a further attempt to universalise his predicament, he adds: "Almost no one has time to read indiscriminately for pleasure these days."

Maybe so, but you're a book reviewer, Mr Jones. The so-many-books-so-little-time plea just isn't going to cut it.

(Link courtesy The Literary Saloon.)