A family friendly website like this one is not the proper place to describe Pachauri’s portrait of Sanjay’s sex life.  It is not a pretty picture; parts of the book read like the Memoirs of a Disgusting Old Goat — by the kind of Old Goat that doesn’t understand the concept of too much information.

The quoted paragraph is from a book review by Walter Russell Mead: [1] Rajendra Pachauri: Voodoo Scientist and Lone Ranger of Love?” at americaninterest.com,  Rajendra Pachauri being the “formerly outspoken head” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  As the book review explains, and as Rajendra Pachauri has stated during the time he was still much in the public eye as the head of the IPCC while putting his foot in his mouth time and again by making outrageous, justifiably-criticized, propagandistic claims about the alleged calamity of an imminent global-warming catastrophe but nevertheless finding time to create publicity for his book, Return to Almora, the book is claimed to have been dashed off by Pachauri while flying from one international meeting to the next.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Walter Russell Mead’s review.  Having read various excerpts from the book that others used to substantiate their assertions that Return to Almora is somewhat talented writing of a morally vacuous plot spiced with liberal doses of smutt, the review is right on target.

The short summary I posted here does not do justice to the marvelous review by Walter Russell Mead, but if you like short summaries, the comments posted in response to the book review are jewels:

4 Comments

There are few things I enjoy as much as a really skillful critical evisceration. Bravo.

Comment by Dave – August 22, 2010 @ [2] 5:58 pm

Pachauri sounds like an excellent case study for Thomas Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed

Comment by Randy – August 22, 2010 @ [3] 6:40 pm

Yet again Walter Russell Mead performs a selfless humanitarian service: reading this clot of codswallop so we don’t have to.

Comment by vanderleun – August 22, 2010 @ [4] 7:05 pm

I will never read “Return to Almora”, but I am glad I read this review.

Comment by Dracovert – August 22, 2010 @ [5] 10:30 pm

Read the [6] full review, and don’t neglect to read also [7] IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases “smutty” romance novel, a January 2010 review, posted at wattsupwiththat.com.