The Washington Post, June 18th, 2000
Chosen by Christopher Buckley, author of Little Green Men, Wry Martinis and other books. What can you say about a book that since 1970 has sold 21 million copies in 33 languages? That the main character actually was (partly) based on Al Gore (along with his Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones). That it made its author, Erich Segal, a Yale classics wonk, so recognizable that stewardesses began dropping their hotel keys on his lap. That its author now sounds rather sour about it all and in somewhat self-humiliating press interviews calls himself "Salieri" and says he wishes he could write like Nor...
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