As noted, I asked ER to reduce the size of the excerpt to something less than all of it Katie. It's still larger than I'm comfortable with, but this horse has already taken a beating. What would be better in the future, I think, would be to synopsize while sprinkling literal quotes for the high points.

As I mentioned in my notice below, ER bringing the review and book to my attention has resulted in me downloading an ebook excerpt to evaluate, and I'm pretty sure I'll buy the book--looks good so far. I'll post my own review here later.

One reason I keep mentioning the books I'm reading is that I'd like to be able to discuss them with other people. One thing we can do very well in the long-form discussion format is dig deep into a subject like this, and worry it to death. I think if the Zone ever has a renaissance, it'll be more in the model of the salon than as a clubhouse of bomb-throwers.