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Unsurprisingly, Irony Inc. (a k a the New York Observer ) shreds the book, calling the chapter on the dangers of genetic engineering "a warning so bloated with bombast that one begins to wish that the gene for pomposity could be extirpated for the sake of future generations.
They substitute intensity for emotion and give us bombast when we want passion.
Reviewers call Bloom's tome "a cloak-bag of ideas, stuffed with true wisdom and false bombast" (Jonathan Bate, the Wall Street Journal ). Bloom's vigor and intelligence in his examination of Shakespeare's plays make the book a joy to read, despite the fact that he "does not quite prove his tremendous thesis" (Jodie Morse, Time )--that Shakespeare single-handedly created the modern idea of individual personality.
The novelist's 47 th book is pronounced a "rare misfire" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Set in 2020 after a nuclear war, it is lambasted as consisting mainly of an old man's "bombast" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ) about death, sex, and excrement.
North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini’s heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosity of Milan’s central station.