Do Bad Books Make Great Satire ?

Washington Post  “Book World” fiction critic Ron Charles has outdone himself in his third video book review, this time for Ape House, the follow up to Sara Gruen’s blockbuster, Water for Elephants.  While he rather delightfully trashes Gruen’s “literary” twaddle , saying it suffers from shoddy editing (and a preposterously immense advance), the highlight of the video is Charles’ satire of how newspapers might monetize book content in the digital age–all manner of products appear in the background as Charles pontificates about the book, from soup to toilet paper.   This video’s hilarious.  Check it out along with his previous two video reviews: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Mona Simpson’s My Hollywood at the Washington Post website.

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