Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows? Who cares, finally? The fun lies in the journey. It is a trip of constantly shifting perceptions and sharply etched satirical sketches of movie types (the anxious writer, the stars in constant need of reassurances and some good lighting, the crew members variously laconic, envious and nymphomaniacal). It is also a carnival of bang-up stunt scenes. which Richard Rush presents with marvelous subtlety. They do not look like the finished product, but neither are they like raw footage: they have the half-polished air of a rough cut. Above all, there is Peter O'Toole, doing...
...political realities. Fussel likes to sound crotchety about the inferior modern substitute for travel, but he knows it is too late to deny people Disneyland or twelve nights and 13 days of prepackaged; fun. His book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasures of the open road...
...Carter-Mondale campaign] is always like plugging into General Headquarters, U.S.A. He has always just come away from a meeting with the President or John Connally or God. The story also took some long, tough hours of reading and thinking. But for the most part it was a lovely journey with old and new friends." The story includes, by the way, some fishing news...
...ends the journey of a born-again Harvard freshman known as Freshman Week '80. You will emerge somewhat wounded, somewhat perplexed, and somewhat strengthened. No matter how harshly your illusions are shattered, however, you will emerge. And you will have reached the end of the beginning. Lots of luck
Even so, the author deserves close attention. If he is not quite the figure Critic Leslie Fiedler once described as "The greatest science fiction writer ever," his imagination is certainly of the first rank. And if his prodigious saga falters, it is only after four volumes, when the journey has already provided a library's worth of merriment and insight. "In skating over thin ice," wrote Emerson, "our safety is in our speed." Until the final stretch, Farmer's velocity is breathtaking. -Peter Stoler