First Review
The first review of "The Year of Loving Dangerously" has appeared on the Strong Verse blog.
posted by Ted Rall at
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3 Comments:
Wow...so this is what has become of the journalistic field - "bloggers" who are no better than internet trolls, whose spelling is about as atrocious as my recent entry two days ago because they no longer edit or proofread. Journalism has become the literary equivalent of the morning constitional - relaxing our brain's sphincter and pushing as hard as we can to eject the wasted thoughts within...
I'll wait for a tangible review, thank you.
What your reviewer there fails to realize is that homelessness isn't the state of not having a home - it is the state of being in a situation where society brands you as homeless. You were no more homeless during that year than anyone who rents an apartment is homeless. I know this because I too was "homeless." I realized that homeless summer (yeah, I wrote a story about it) that homelessness isn't about whether or not you had a place to live - it is about what society thinks of your means of satisfying the need for shelter - it is about conformity. Nothing more, nothing less. So the root of all homelessness, to address your reviewer, is mental illness or simply having a different perspective.
So using that definition, Ted was never homeless. Ted used his skills as a mentally competent person raised in a private economy (American capitalism isn't a free market economy, it is a private market economy - look it up folks...) to retain somewhat traditional and most defintely acceptable housing.
Dammit, I really want to get this book now.
Ted,
Thanks for the link and while I don't feel the need to hedge in comments about my review, I do feel the need to ask Rex where on earth he found "atrocious" spelling in my post.
If he'd like to attack my views on homelessness, that's fine (as you know, I pointed out that I was reading from a different perspective in our emails) but lying about the literary quality of my review is uncalled for.
Best,
GMP
This sentence: That is, Rall's Dangerously does not read like a map of the dangerous of capitalism.
Dangers?
Dangerousness?
As I said, its as atrocious as my spelling in a post a couple days ago I didn't proofread before posting.
And...in case you hadn't yet discovered, I'm a bit of a blogger myself, so this was well-intentioned self mockery in case you decide to think it was personal.
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