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Joseph finds her enigmatic, but the only real enigma about this self-absorbed woman that we're ever aware of is her anorexia.
"Is it any wonder that the self-absorbed, the promiscuous, the drugged and the drunk ...
Yeltsin's legacy will be like Yeltsin himself, particularly during his second term: inarticulate, confused, self-absorbed, weak."
A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).
It's true that West can be formulaic, derivative, clunky, and annoyingly self-absorbed (though surely in this last category Wieseltier is more than a match for him).