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Wilkinson has to rely on snippets like this and bombard the reader with 16-page quotations that lose their vigor as the ink dries on the page. I want to see the Garland Bunting that told David Letterman he wasn't concerned that his livelihood as an undercover agent was threatened by an appearance on national television. No, after all these years, Bunting told Letterman that after more than 30 years of law enforcement, a little national exposure might add a little challenge and make his conniving games more interesting...
When Bunting and Wilkinson do go out on a stake-out together as the book concludes, the author approaches the more familiar ground of the Midnights chronicles. But the effort is abortive, the incident doesn't amount to much and leaves the reader teased and frustrated and no more satisfied...
...impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough to marry a bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls Bradbury: "If a time machine were to return us to that now fashionable scene it would be unrecognizable. An amusement park was going to seed. Lion cages...
...that is why Charles Perry's book is as frustrating as it is exciting, a history of a revolution in thought that can give one a factual knowledge of the Haight-Ashbury movement but through which the reader can only vaguely grasp what IT was all about...
Zinner also leaves the lay reader searching for firm ground while he uses innumerable technical terms for sexual anatamoy and diseases. Only a gynecologist, or perhaps an extremely advanced biology concentrator can follow his in-depth discussions of many sexual diseases...