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Title: Free love, at arm's length
Review: I was intrigued by the book's title as I had personal experience with group marriage and communal living, back in the day. The book was disappointing though. The writing wasn't great, but that would have been OK if the content was better. I found the author surprisingly unsympathetic, in spite of the book being her own story. She really never wanted to be where she was and only dabbled in the experiences described. A few months in the '70s... could be enough to influence your direction in life, but hardly gets your feet wet. What was going on in the group sounds fairly typical of the open-ended communal households of that era, but calling it group marriage seems a misnomer; it was your basic free love ideology, without commitment. It would have been more interesting to get some depth of background, people, character, beliefs, but the narrative doesn't really take you beyond the author's own ambivalent feelings.
