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Title: dull, unimaginative study of fascinating topic
Review: Nelson's academic approach to the subject renders her treatment of exceptionally lively and fascinating subject matter dry, but fails to be insightful. Her style is pedestrian, sometimes pedantic. Jonathon Green's 'All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counter-culture'(1998) and 'Days in the Life: Voices of the British Underground, 1961-71'(1988), Nigel Fountain's 'Underground'(1988), Roger Hutchinson's 'High Sixties'(1992)and Richard Neville's 'Hippie Hippie Shake'(1995) are all so much better. Perhaps part of Nelson's problem is that she is based in Australia, remote from the scene she describes, whereas the authors I mention above were all protagonists in the London counter-culture.
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