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Review title: Some good anecdotes but barely a novel.
Product review: This book sounded great but it soon was apparent that the spine of it -- the reporter's romance with a TV babe -- was clumsy and lacking in chemistry. Obvious targets, such as the Pentagon's managing of the press, the press' boorishness and silliness, (especially broadcast talent) and the shallowness of TV coverage versus that of print coverage are thoroughy worked over. The overall story is episodic and repetitve, and beyond an occasional glimpse into oddities of Saudi soicety, and bits that reveal a new angle on the military, this is repetitive and lacking in insight. Relationships tend to be one-note and dry. The prose is often flat-footed. Worth perusing for some nuggets but as a whole it's got almost no story and offers not much beyond what a good news watcher/reader would have absorbed during the first Gulf War.
