any views on book reviews

[andrew stephenson <winstonmarx@yahoo.co.uk>]

hi all,

 

i was just wondering whether any of you had any opinions on the style a book review should take. I am undertaking to write one soon and i am not sure how to proceed. really i am asking for advice on what book to choose. i'm (broadly but not exclusively) a continentalist which generally means the books i focus on were written ages ago. sure, some commentries are contemporary, but they just aint as interesting or fun to write about. But is there any point in writing a book review about an old canonical classic when so many have probably been done already...hmmm. i want to write about Derrida's Of Grammatology but it was published nearly forty years ago!

so...tell me hmm

 

cheers,

andy.

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