The sound is equal parts glam, punk, and metal, and features Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen. Also, the Times ' Sunday book review section killed a second review of the book, a negative one by theorist Helena Cronin. And I thought the review failed to address the whole range of the book. Other reviewers are put off by Angier's ecstatic, florid prose. A corporation man gets genital tattoos, a bored suburban couple burn down their house on a whim, etc.
Dissenters find the novel's transgressive bent a touch stale, but the pack praises it.
Some critics detect shades of the single-gal dippiness of Bridget Jones's Diary , but most say that this is much more witty and sophisticated. Eliza Truitt is a Slate associate editor. Illustrations by Mark Alan Stamaty. All rights reserved.