This was a nice surprise today, with the bottom line being:

I’m struck, however, by the sheer volume of plain errors in most reviews so far.  People who actually buy and read the book will recognize several in the Daily News piece, even though it’s only five sentences long.  (And I’m not objecting to being called a "struggling nobody."  Absolutely.  Aren’t we all?  Including lots of rich and famous people I can think of.  And some presidents.)

I don’t fault the reviewers.  This may just be a function of how book reviewing is done — apparently in considerable quantity, by reviewers who are deluged by a never-ending stream of incoming books.  I imagine Lucille Ball working the infamous assembly line of chocolates in the classic "I Love Lucy" episode, only with entire books to deal with instead of desserts.

Seriously, could you do that job well for very long?  I couldn’t.

This explains why Entertainment Weekly briefly alleged (until they graciously printed a retraction this week) that I’ve won "hundreds of thousands" in untelevised back-alley trivia competitions, and why the Daily News now ambiguously implies I won 13 times on the show, which is of course false.  Lucy is just shoving the whole of Prisoner of Trebekistan down her blouse, trying to keep up.

And that’s one visual I probably won’t be revisiting.