Just Out: NEW NY Times Review of "My Life"

newsguyatl

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:20 PM
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Just Out: NEW NY Times Review of "My Life"

You'll remember the "other" one that slammed Clinton's new book, but this just went up on NYTimes.com.

Larry McMurtry describes "My Life" as "the richest American presidential autobiography - no other book tells us as vividly or fully what it is like to be president of the United States for eight years."

It will appear in The New York Times Book Review on July 4.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/books/review/0623books-mcmurtry-clinton.html

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wtmusic

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:23 PM
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1. McMurtry said THAT?

That's a hell of an endorsement. I would buy it based on that alone.

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dobak

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:35 PM
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4. yep

Don't trust anything Michiko Kakutani (the author of the first NYT review) writes unless it is a review of a ultra-hip new novel.

Her attention span maxs out around 400 pages and those 400 pages have to be full of ridiculously convoluted sentences that sound like they are trying to distill the meaning of our existence into a paragraph.

I seem to like every book she hates and I seem to hate every book she raves about.

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PROGRESSIVE1

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:31 PM
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2. Why did they do this suddenly?

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hlthe2b

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:33 PM
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3. that's what I want to know... why did they add a second review?

Was there any mention of their previous plagiarized hack job?

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DoYouEverWonder

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:35 PM
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5. The NYT just wants to be on the side that's winning

whores.

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monchie

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:42 PM
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6. There's nothing mysterious about this.

The New York Times runs two types of book reviews, one in the daily newspaper, usually in the Arts section, and the other in the separate Book Review section that comes with the Sunday paper. The Michio Kakutani (sp?) review ran in the daily newspaper, and this new one will run in the Book Review. It is not uncommon for the same book to be reviewed twice.

The daily reviews are usually done by NYT staff, while the Sunday reviews are usually, by not always, done by freelancers.

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dobak

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:47 PM
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7. ding ding ding

We have a winner!

Nice to know there are still people who don't jump to political conclusions about every little thing in life.

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DrBB

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:47 PM
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8. Second that--this is S.O.P.

The NYTimes Book Review is a separate entity, just like the Editorial pages are separate from the daily news reporting. You frequently see separate reviews of the same book.

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hlthe2b

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Wed Jun-23-04 10:05 PM
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11. good to know...I wasn't aware that two reviews were not atypical....

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Catherine Vincent

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:50 PM
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9. Yeah but the networks and others will continue to quote the first review.

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Wed Jun-23-04 09:56 PM
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10. Billy the Shake sez:

HAMLET�: What's the news? �

ROSENCRANTZ�: None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest. �

HAMLET�: Then is doomsday near. but your news is not true.

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