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Title: Henry Miller it's not.
Review: "Appealing to a prurient interest," yes. Not to mention "without redeeming political, social, or scientific value".If clinical, rather than torrid, reporting of sexual encounters is to your taste, by all means download the Starr report from one of the many Internet mirrors available. If you have a paper fetish, go ahead and buy it. In either case, don't expect something that is entirely legalistic or completely pornographic. What you'll find is a bit of both, seemingly blended for maximum dreariness.I have to give the report two stars, rather than one, because I can't believe that the odor of tawdriness that clings to it is the result of anything other than carefully practiced art. But I still don't know whether to laugh, cry, or just pretend not to have read it.With apologies to Justice Potter Stewart, I can't necessarily give a rigid set of criteria that would define a waste of time and effort. But I know it when I see it.
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