I give up

Folks, it's time for me to find a new avocation.

Lev Grossman, literary critic for Time magazine, has proclaimed Harriet Klausner "one of the world's most prolific and influential book reviewers."

She's as prolific as diarrhea, but if that fraud is influential, then clearly I'm in the wrong business.

Happy holidays!  :)

Comments

[jackie]

I am reading Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille and have enjoyed it so far. Also looking @ Academy Awards book 1927 - 2004. I have just purchased 8 books from B & N for 2 or so apiece @ a big Sale. Lot's of interesting titles.
All the Centurions, A Lady First,Finders Keepers, and On The Run

[Elaine Flinn]

Don't you DARE give up! What would we do without you?

[Maxine]

All I know about her is that she used to publish a review every day on the Dorothy L list when I first signed up to it. I stopped my subscription when Lady Diana died because of all the posts on Dorothy L "sympathising" with us Brits over it -- what it had to do with a crime fiction list is anyone's guess.

Some years later, before discovering blogging and spending some weeks immobile after a foot operation in 2005, I re-signed up to Dorothy L, to find Harriet K no more. I read somewhere that she decamped to Amazon.

I didn't find her reviews useful at all, no sense of her personality came thorough. I think the reviews were more plot summaries than opinion. There are so many crime books out there that in order to decide whether to read one, the reader of the review needs a few "pointers" rather than a plot summary, which can easily be obtained from the blurb in any event.

Incidentally, I came off Dorothy L again after all the commiserations to us "plucky brits" over the london tube bombs that year. Again, somewhat off-topic, if understandable. The debate on Dorothy L can be really good, but they don't do rss (last time I looked) so it is a bit of an overwhelming experience reading in a daily email fromat.