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danijaybee 's review for:
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
DNF - didn’t even get past the introduction, to be honest.
I read the intro and was…surprised. The style sounds like it’s trying to echo Kitchen Confidential, but not effectively, though the most surprising bit is how you can essentially capitalize on the success of a better writer who came before you and paved the way for a book like yours to even be interesting…and not even remotely mention that fact? How do you bill a book as a “FOH Kitchen Confidential” and not even acknowledge the man in the introduction?
Then I read the intro again, this time for my husband, who has worked in restaurants for decades now. The lists! Oh my god the lists! Will someone please tell the author that writing is more than listing all synonyms or possible variables? It reads as though he needs us to know that he has so many more words inside him…except zero discernment for which of the words are, well, good writing.
I hopped on here, read the bad reviews to see if I was in good company with my observations, and decided I didn’t need to continue. I’m just not that into lists, I guess.
Capitalizing on the success of Bourdain but without the talent, as far as I can see. Congratulations on everything that happened or I’m sorry it happened, whichever, I’m not reading all that.
I read the intro and was…surprised. The style sounds like it’s trying to echo Kitchen Confidential, but not effectively, though the most surprising bit is how you can essentially capitalize on the success of a better writer who came before you and paved the way for a book like yours to even be interesting…and not even remotely mention that fact? How do you bill a book as a “FOH Kitchen Confidential” and not even acknowledge the man in the introduction?
Then I read the intro again, this time for my husband, who has worked in restaurants for decades now. The lists! Oh my god the lists! Will someone please tell the author that writing is more than listing all synonyms or possible variables? It reads as though he needs us to know that he has so many more words inside him…except zero discernment for which of the words are, well, good writing.
I hopped on here, read the bad reviews to see if I was in good company with my observations, and decided I didn’t need to continue. I’m just not that into lists, I guess.
Capitalizing on the success of Bourdain but without the talent, as far as I can see. Congratulations on everything that happened or I’m sorry it happened, whichever, I’m not reading all that.