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Mr. Gleick fights shy of this big question.
James Gleick in his 1992 biography, Genius, the Life and Science of Richard Feynman , quoted the Harvard philosopher, W.V. Quine: I think that for scientific purposes the best we can do is give up the notion of knowledge as a bad job...
On the positive side, "Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). More often, though, critics call the book "didactic and highly simplistic" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). Judith Shulevitz finds a flaw at the center of Faludi's thesis: She "assumes something that's no longer true: that America is in the throes of downsizing and loss"; and her focus on the marginalized and downsized distorts her view: "she should have said she was talking about class; she claimed to be talking about gender" (the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to listen to an interview with Faludi.)
Although Faster is full of interesting details of how the brain perceives time and how technology both steals and adds minutes to our lives, several critics note that Gleick never makes a definitive conclusion about the data he has collected.
The brittle, shallow, single, gold-digging, thirtysomething protagonist of Janowitz's latest hate letter to Manhattan is pronounced so unpleasant as to make the entire novel (which follows her search for a suitably rich and connected husband) quite a drag: "A hateful heroine and a catalog of conspicuous consuming do not an amusing read make" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). "One of the least likable characters in modern fiction history.
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