A critic speaks: "And So It Goes"

To follow-up on the previous post, The New York Times has reviewed Sheilds' biography of Vonnegut. Kind of.

It's actually more a criticism of Vonnegut himself. Here is the one sentence in Christopher Buckley's article that addresses the book: "Shields has a deep affection for his subject and does what he can to rebut charges of hypocrisy, but in this he is not entirely convincing."

Other than that, Buckley summarizes Vonnegut's life from Shields' book and then picks apart Vonnegut's actions. I guess he could have done that without Shields' book.
Buckley makes the point that the book is depressing because Vonnegut's life was kind of depressing, but what's the point in now saying "Hey, don't be so depressing, Kurt."

My critique: Buckley didn't write the greatest book critique.