Title: Polemic to the People!
Product review: A number of people have told me how much they enjoyed this book when it first came out; none of them had re-read it recently to give me an idea how well they thought it had stood up to time.It almost begs for a sound-byte: Hero/Antihero in the Summer of Love, bearing sorrow having fun...or something. Emmet Grogan was not a man for sound-bytes however, and his tale goes on and on. I liked the parts where there are glimpses of the streets and the people, what was going on. Unfortunately he can't stop there but provide an overlay of how he sees the true meaning of it, a truth that, oddly enough, revolves around the ego of Emmet Grogan. The further into his story, the more alone he seems to be, the fewer people who hang out with him, listen to him, be a friend.This could have been an evocative picture of the people and sensibilities of the times, but it's overwhelmed by the Digger loggorhea that Grogan fell in love with and felt compelled to wrap his history in.
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