I'm getting word that pre-ordered copies of Heads in the Sand are shipping out today. If you haven't ordered yours yet, hurry up! After all, what have I ever asked y'all to do for me? Nothing, that's what. Except to buy my book. Hendrick Hertzberg says it's "not just a razor-sharp analysis cum narrative of the politics of national security in general and the Iraq war in particular, it's also an enthralling and often very funny piece of writing." Jamie Kirchick, by contrast, says it sucks while Ezra Klein calls it "very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care." Who are you going to trust?
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08 Apr 2008 12:42 pm
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Amazon claims it shipped mine yesterday and that it's arriving today.
Bookstores?
Amazon shipped mine yesterday and it should arrive tomorrow. UPS says the box is two pounds. Two whole pounds! I didn't realize this would be such a massive commitment.
Jamie Kirchick, by contrast, says it sucks
That's the best endorsement of a book I've seen in a while. If Kirchick says something sucks, chances are it is probably good. I think they call it counter-intuitive reasoning.
I already linked the video that this post title demands in comments here once, but I'll do so again I guess.
Amazon shipped mine yesterday as well.
it better be good Matt, or I am going to troll the shit out of this blog
Any news as to when it will ship in the UK?
Laughed out loud the first time I saw Ezra's blurb.
Mine shipped from Amazon supposedly on Sunday.
Laughed out loud the first time I saw Ezra's blurb.
Mine shipped from Amazon supposedly on Sunday.
Links to the reviews, please.
Well, did you actually read the sources you used, or just quickly scan past the important details, caveats and provisos in search of nice summaries of immaterial points that you could prop up and nit pick?
Like your blog.
he said "cum." heh heh.
I would not buy a book where you supply quotations (Klein, eg) to support you. What if a GOP Senator did that? You would be on TV shouting with arrogant and ugly Keith Obermann about COI, COI, COI - conflict of interest.
Where is your COI?
I like to hold everyone under the fire. The only books I buy of bloggers are those that dissect everyone: GOP, Dems., Nader, etc.
Courage.
PS: I will check your book in a bookstore or library. I will buy after I sense that is a fair attack on all. If it just a GOP attack, goodbye.
I would not buy a book where you supply quotations of your friends (Klein, eg) to support you. What if a GOP Senator did that? You would be on TV shouting with arrogant and ugly Keith Obermann about COI, COI, COI - conflict of interest.
Where is your COI?
I like to hold everyone under the fire. The only books I buy of bloggers are those that dissect everyone: GOP, Dems., Nader, etc.
Courage.
PS: I will check your book in a bookstore or library. I will buy after I sense that is a fair attack on all. If it just a GOP attack, goodbye.
Jamie Kirchick, by contrast, says it sucks while Ezra Klein calls it "very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care." Who are you going to trust?
Well, Kirchick is Marty Peretz's flunky, so he knows from sucks.
As a southerner, born and bred, I applaud your use of "y'all".
Because of that I will most certainly consider purchasing the book.
Just arrived...elated to see an index entry Goldberg, Johan...disappointed its just a passing reference.
Yeah...I'm with Frank - why can't I get a Kindle version?!?!?!?!
I would really like to avoid buying any more dead tree versions of books but I guess I'll make an exception for this one.
Jack, I was going to say that you should check under Goldberg, Jonah since he probably gets more references in the index than his evil twin Johan.
But then I remembered this is Matthew's book, so you should probably also check under "Goldburg, Jonah", "Glodberg, Joan", "Goldman, Johnny", and "Joberg, Gonad".
The Kindle is coming people! There's a queue and it's slower than you'd think. There will be one, but it might not be for days, or weeks.
Jamie's review didn't say your book sucks; it says that he believes your argument in it is unfounded. If Jamie thought your book "sucked" on other terms (prose quality, for example), he would have written as much in his review. More likely, he wouldn't have taken the time to review it in the first place.
Is this post's title a "The Critic" reference?
"Who are you going to trust?"
Damn sure not going to trust you or your cronies!
Meanwhile, I'll wait for the free ebook off Usenet or some P2P site - not that it'll EVER show up at either place...
Especially since it's (allegedly) "a razor-sharp analysis cum narrative of the politics of national security". That is, since it's only about the POLITICS of national security, and not about national security itself - a subject which you've demonstrated mostly total ignorance of - why would I read it?
Besides which, the "politics" of Iraq, not to mention the whole history of the run up to the war, has been dissected forwards and backwards by twenty other books - and every blog post on the Net - over the last four years.
So you're late to the game, dude. So your book better be pretty frickin' high-powered and say something different to be worth a read.
Going by your blog posts, I suspect not.
I got mine from Amazon a day or 2 ago, and have already started reading it. I don't have anything intelligent to say yet, other than that the opening arguments in favor of traditional liberal internationalism make sense to me. I do have to say that reading Ezra channeling Jonah Goldberg on the back cover cracked me up.
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Amazon does not have it available for the Kindle!
Noooo!
Posted by Frank | April 8, 2008 12:54 PM