11-15-2007, 07:17 AM
Found this one while browsing the library's paperbacks. After reading this, I'll definitely give his other work a try.
Our hero is the son of 60s-70s hippies who were looking for the "mystical" truth wherever they could find it, mostly in drugs; anyway they both abandoned him very early in life which motivated him to become a professional myth-hoax-buster. He re-meets dying mom who tells him about the myth his father died pursuing and decides to dispel it (therapy?) and then, of course, finds out it's not a myth.
I'd describe his writing style as "meaty." This isn't the typical light, popcorn-esque books I like to snarf down quickly; the prose is something you want to gnaw on and really taste. Rush it and you miss flavor as well as story.
It has a few "a-little-too-convenient" elements and the ending wasn't exactly what I personally would have chosen, but it makes sense -- anyway, thumbs up from me.
Our hero is the son of 60s-70s hippies who were looking for the "mystical" truth wherever they could find it, mostly in drugs; anyway they both abandoned him very early in life which motivated him to become a professional myth-hoax-buster. He re-meets dying mom who tells him about the myth his father died pursuing and decides to dispel it (therapy?) and then, of course, finds out it's not a myth.
I'd describe his writing style as "meaty." This isn't the typical light, popcorn-esque books I like to snarf down quickly; the prose is something you want to gnaw on and really taste. Rush it and you miss flavor as well as story.
It has a few "a-little-too-convenient" elements and the ending wasn't exactly what I personally would have chosen, but it makes sense -- anyway, thumbs up from me.
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