Brooks was flu moxed for a moment. How to respond. There seem to be three possibilities. Ignore the guy, insult him, or destroy him by picking out his own errors and throwing them back at him. Brooks, to his credit, choose a fourth way that impressed me, and I bet that you will also be impressed with this. Of course he felt insulted and attacked, but somehow he also had to acknowledge that the man had actually read the whole book and that made him grateful