NYT not very kind to Mr. Clinton

[poseidon]

The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.

[murasaki]

One can always count on Michiko Kakutani for a good slam of a new book.

[frazzledspice]

Nevertheless, it's already #1 on Amazon's list.

[poseidon]

You're right, due totally to pre-sale ordering.

But it sounds like most people, short of say, Dan Rather, are going to find it good bedtime material.

[drmomentum[$]]

Wow. You would think it would be difficult to find someone giving a negative review of a book written by Clinton, wouldn't you?

-JP

[AuntieEmma[$]]

The NYT ran another review of the book, this one by Larry McMurtry:

William Jefferson Clinton's "My Life" is, by a generous measure, 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. Clinton had the good sense to couple great smarts with a solid education; he arrived in Washington in 1964 and has been the nation's - or perhaps the world's - No. 1 politics junkie ever since. And he can write - as Reagan, Ford, Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson, to go no farther back, could not...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/bo...y-clinton.html