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The LAT lead editorial, "Bill Gates is Wrong," takes exception to Gates' Coke/Pepsi analogy by saying, "Microsoft's ambition to have Windows play an integral role in virtually every American lifestyle is more like Coke telling Americans that from now on it will be their beverage, main course and dessert."
Critics agree that the novel lapses at times into "breathless overwriting" (David Wiegland, the San Francisco Chronicle ) but remains "a narrative of considerable ambition and complexity" ( The New Yorker ). (Read an excerpt and an interview with the author here.)
All that is captured, of course, is Berkowitz's ambition to put himself in your face: He comes out of 20 Dates with a trophy fiancee and a feature film in major release, but absolutely no insight into dating, love, or human chemistry.
And while he does not share Soros' ambition to be seen as a sort of philosopher-speculator, his prominence does constitute a sort of bully pulpit--with the operative word perhaps being "bully"--from which he has not hesitated to lecture nations on their failings.
Will your Mixmaster ever fulfill its career ambition to become an I-appliance?