Title: No better the second time.
Product review: I HAD to re-read this, to give my favorite author the benefit of the doubt. Alas ...There seems to be an obligatory urge of every author, whose day job is teaching at a university, to relate all those madcap highjinx perpetrated by the wild-and-crazy guys who inhabit acadamia. What comes glaringly across to readers is the recollection that their hopes for a college experience worthy of the name was trampled by the unimaginative, petty hacks who hold forth in the hallowed reaches of higher education. Read Jon Hassler's "Rookery Blues" for the same depressing jog of your hopefully-buried-forever memories. I didn't care a whit for any character in this book. And this from the man who could bring me to tears with "Nobody's Fool" and "The Risk Pool". Richard, I hope you've gotten it out of your system.
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