DVC Stinks!

Not surprisingly, the film version of the DVC didn't fall far from its "literary" tree. Reviews from Cannes, the NYT, and everyone else have been universally negative. Some critics have been downright vicious, referring to Tom Hanks as "bloated" and saying things like, "the film takes longer to get through than the book, or at least it feels like it!' At Cannes, viewers were no more polite--some actually were derisively laughing at parts that weren't supposed to be funny!

Some enterprising individual recently released a spoof on the book, entitled, "The Baloney Code." Apparently, there is more truth in this satire than there was in the origina novel. But you know what they say, "Satire has to have some truth to it or it isn't good satire." Sounds like a funny book. I may have to thumb through it the next time I go to Barnes and Noble.