Fearless Critic

by on June 7, 2009 at 8:44 am in Books, Food and Drink | Permalink

The subtitle is Washington DC Area Restaurant Guide and the author is Robin Goldstein.  I am a Contributing Editor and yes he did listen to my most valuable pieces of advice.  Described as "brutally honest," this is much, much better than Zagat's and the like.  It is the best book of its kind.

Elsewhere on the new book front, there is Keith Stanovich's What Intelligence Tests Miss (I hope to review it) and Robert Wright's The Evolution of God; there is some chance I will be doing a BloggingHeads with Wright on this book.

babar June 7, 2009 at 9:29 am

the problem with any curated restaurant guide is that it is obsolete by the time it is released.

Andrew June 7, 2009 at 10:08 am

Bought it. A fellow student is going to do a post-doc in D.C. This will help ingratiate me so he’ll help me with the equipment after he’s gone!

“the problem with any curated restaurant guide is that it is obsolete” especially, perhaps a “brutally honest one.” You may have a theory on why critics (and ratings agencies and stock analysts) are overly positive.

tom June 7, 2009 at 1:27 pm

What impressed me was the effect on me of the negative first review of the book on Amazon (precious, self-focused, elitist).

Is that right? Who will review the reviewers’ reviewers?

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five fingers September 22, 2010 at 1:35 pm

I gree with it!

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