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He found many of the players incorrigibly apathetic or self-absorbed.
You don't find it remotely enlightening to share relentless intimacy with someone so angry, self-righteous and strange--and so proud of being candid" ( USA Today ). Most critics call the collection "funny, warm and sagacious" (Regina Marler, the Los Angeles Times ), but there are a few who condemn it as self-absorbed.
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).
"Is it any wonder that the self-absorbed, the promiscuous, the drugged and the drunk ...
"Insipid and self-absorbed" would be more accurate.