No, No, The Author Insists: My Book Really Isn’t That Good

Joe Queenan broaches “the least-discussed subject in the world of belles-lettres: book reviews that any author worth his salt knows are unjustifiably enthusiastic.” Are such reviews unethical? No. Immoral? No. But they are common. They’re also “unfair to the reader, who may be hornswoggled….”