They can't review every book that crackpots mails them. And they don't want to provide positive reinforcement for authors mailing in their own books.
Besides, Garvin's own review makes the book sound more closed-minded than the Times: the author can't conceive of a terrorist attack that isn't based on Islamic fundamentalism, and he can't conceive that strippers can also be rape victims, so he concludes that the newspaper must be engaging in a vast cover-up.
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They can't review every book that crackpots mails them. And they don't want to provide positive reinforcement for authors mailing in their own books.
Besides, Garvin's own review makes the book sound more closed-minded than the Times: the author can't conceive of a terrorist attack that isn't based on Islamic fundamentalism, and he can't conceive that strippers can also be rape victims, so he concludes that the newspaper must be engaging in a vast cover-up.
Please.
The problem with the Miami Herald opinion piece was that it focussed too much on the one book at the expense of the several other worthy books listed.
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