2/14/2024 0 Comments Lights out rotten tomatotes![]() There’s a lot to be said for Musk’s tenacity, for example his ability to break through Nasa’s cost-plus bureaucracy. There is a far more interesting book shadowing this one about the way our society has ceded its prerogatives to the Musks of the world. ![]() To go from Einstein to Musk in only five volumes is surely an indication that humanity isn’t sending Isaacson its best … To his credit, Isaacson is a master at chapter breaks, pausing the narrative when one of Musk’s rockets explodes or he gets someone pregnant, and then rewarding the reader with a series of photographs that assuages the boredom until the next descent into his protagonist’s wild but oddly predictable life. I drove my espresso machine hard into the night to survive both craft and subject matter … Isaacson comes from the ‘his eyes lit up’ school of cliched writing, the rest of his prose workmanlike bordering on AI. “Who or what is to blame for Elon Musk? Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer … There’s a lot to work with here, but it doesn’t make reading this book any easier. So here they are, in all their gory, gut-punchin’ glory: the most scathing book reviews of 2023. ![]() Welcome, fellow haters, to another bilious edition of the Most Scathing Book Reviews of the Year.Īs longtime readers of this annual feature will know, each year in the run up to the holidays, we (the normally benevolent stewards of BookMarks.reviews) make a sacrificial offering to the literary criticism gods in the hope of a bountiful review harvest for the coming year.Īmong the books being flung into the fiery pit this time around: Walter Isaacson’s “dull, insight-free doorstop” biography of Elon Musk Paris Hilton’s “vapid and vaporous” memoir Tom Hanks’ “bland busman’s holiday dressed up as literary fiction” and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “hollow PR exercise.” And everyone telling you be of good cheer…”
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