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Title: Manseau yes... others, uh uh!
Review: A recent dynamite book I really enjoyed is Peter Manseau's "Songs for the Butcher's Daughter." It was totally engrossing. "A story of love, hate, Jews and typesetting." I laughed, I cried, I did all the things critics say you should do with a good book.So now I am slogging my way through Peter Manseau's "Killing The Buddha - A Heretic's Bible." It's a compendium of variously authored pieces dealing with the religious experience in America; Which could be a helluva book. But this one is just pretentious BS for the most part. The stuff Manseau (or Sharlett) writes to connect the pieces is good reading: i.e., interesting, timely, well written, accessible, etc., but the actual articles are mostly just some artsy-fartsy folks getting a kick out of making simple things needlessly obscure and pedantic. Also, despite the title, there is not a heck of a lot of Buddhism in the book, either. Save your money.
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