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is good, thoughtful books about interesting historical events or current political issues, but finding interesting novels in the times book review is like finding needles in haystacks. selection there nonfiction. Who the hell gets there book recommendations from the New-York times book review section? I mean, I admit about two-thirds of have a questionI

The times just throws out these books that no one wants to read. From pompous author so and so, or from foreign author so and so, this book, about absolutely nothing, has sixteen creative metaphors , a nonlinear plot structure, characters who are more symbol than reality and a wonderful scene where the narrator drinks while looking out to sea. We love it.  

And I have middlebrow tastes. I hate James Patterson, and authors like him, but the times seems to purposefully review fiction that only ass holes want to read.