Title: Like Mendoza, you'll be begging to die halfway through
Product review: Mendoza in Hollywood is a great disappointment. It lacks the wit of In the Garden of Iden. Of course, the 19th-century American west is never my favorite time period, and there's way too much traditional Anglo American history (a la Frederick Jackson Turner).Imarte (the anthropologist gathering information as a frontier whore) is the best part of the book.Far too much time is spent in film descriptions, in cyborg film buffs mapping "homes of the stars" onto 1864 California, and in slapping together conspiracy theories from the Company's data.What is brilliant about In the Garden of Iden is only a third-sequel re-hashing in Mendoza in Hollywood.But don't take my word for it!
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