Beware of book blurbs - Salon.com

Amis is one of the finest stylists alive, but I thought Lionel Asbo was a bad novel. A really bad novel. In fact, my review of Lionel Asbo was a finalist for the Hatchet Job - a prize given for the most negative book review of the year. And yet, on the new paperback  - on the front cover, no less - appears this ringing endorsement from the Washington Post: 'Amis is a force unto himself. There is, quite simply, no one else like him.'