So I was just starting to bask in the glow of yesterday’s incredible review in the New York Times Book Review when along comes CNET with a total buzz kill. They’ve included my book on a list of Christmas presents they don’t recommend. See here.

I’m sorry CNET but you know what? This hurts. It really does. Sniff.

Just FYI, CNET’s complaint is they don’t think the book will appeal to people outside Silicon Valley. Which is hilarious considering the best reviews so far have come from the New York Times Sunday Style section, the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, the LA Times, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal.

The good folks at CNET are also put off because the book isn’t plot-driven enough, or the plot is too weird, or something. For what it’s worth Larry just sent over the CNET review of Lolita. Their take: Totally not recommended. The plot is rilly far-fetched, and the main character is unlikeable, and I rilly don’t like the way this author writes sentences or maybe it got messed up in translation from Russian and it’s totally obvious that this writer has not spent a lot of time in America before he wrote this book.

Well, now I don’t feel so bad.