Title: 2nd Rip Up
Product review: I have found therapy in ripping up bad books. The first was a Stieg Larsson. Basin and Range was my second. The first chapter left me breathless. I wanted the author to provide interludes in his rush of words. He didn't. I put the book down for a few days. I live in the Basin and Range and wanted to know about the geology of my new home, so I tried again. After a few pages of the second chapter, I quartered it, ten pages at a time. Ripping is good exercise for the fingers. McPhee just doesn't know where to stop, using 10 examples where a good author would have used 2 or 3, and a great author would have used one.I'd appreciate pointers to other books on the basin and range, specially ones by authors who are not so full of themselves.A bit of irony: I noticed as I was piling the quarters of the book a blurb on the back in which Steven Jay Gould called McPhee succinct.
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