A review by pearloz
True Believers by Kurt Andersen

2.0

It just wasn't very good. Growing up in the 60s, the Narrator obviously will mention all the cliched cultural touchstones. Oh, you caught that new guitarist Jimi Hendrix? Oh, you saw the movie by that new french director? Oh, you went to see MLK speak? Oh, you were hitchhiking and met some hippies going to a weekend concert? Oh, you were watching RFK's last speech? Oh, you hated the war and protested? It felt like he was trying to write something significant but instead wrote something rote. It was all so expected.

The operations were a strange interesting element, and the book would've been a lot better if they'd gone ahead w/ Operation Lima Bravo Juliet, but in the end it was just kids being childish.