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Wednesday, January 07, 2004 Top-five listI've decided that review coverage of my first novel has been pretty skimpy, especially in San Francisco. In Boston, on the strength of one good review, Too Much of Nothing wound up in the window of the Harvard Bookstore, and (I think) in the library system. There's been no such attention in San Francisco or L.A. It's as if people don't read. So here, to make me feel better, are the five most memorable things people have said so far about the book:5) "Moore's humor, despite its subtlety, provides some out-loud laughs: This reviewer was embarrassed on the bus several times." — Hiya Swanhuyser, in the paper I write for, SF Weekly 4) "From the melancholic grace of the opening scene to the haunting final image, Nothing rarely reads like an apprentice work." — J.L. Johnson, Boston Herald 3) "It brought [Southern California's] shallowness into a clarity that I sure didn't see growing up." — a friend of mine on Amazon 2) "You know, forty years separate us, but a lot of what happened in your book went on when I was a kid." — My step-dad, who grew up in L.A. in the 1940s. 1) "Thanks for writing about drugs without romanticizing them." — Total stranger at a reading in Emeryville. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 3:24 AM | |
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