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Critics praise Tarloff's rendering of political power dynamics: "What makes the novel riveting is its almost anthropological description of the ebb and flow of power and status in official Washington" (Margaret Carlson, Time ). Overall, though, the dish is more appealing than the prose.
He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.
USA Today 's Katy Kelly writes, "The plague problem, which should be riveting, is so well-explained that it wearies the reader."
To cite one example, in A Bright Shining Lie , one of the most riveting books about the war, Neil Sheehan doesn't take evidence that the war was finally being won by the United States and South Vietnam seriously.
It is a riveting tale written by someone who gave it texture as it unfolded, and I doubt that any reviewer save this one will take him to task for his ingratitude to Linda Tripp.