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Book Review
UNDER THE ROCK
1989
Overview
The book cries out for editing when its passages cross the line between intensity and excess, and sometimes from eroticism to misogyny. (Though, in fairness, the men are treated about as brutally as the women.) Certainly it's no picnic, the spiritual quest in an ugly world, but Mr. [Michael Ventura]'s book seems purposefully weighted down by repulsive hallucinations; readers are asked to suspend disbelief, and then rewarded with the likes of anus-dwelling snakes and talking feces. The difficulty is overtly expressed when [Jesse Wales] asks [Elaine], after their ritual in Mexico, ''You're a writer. You ever write about this stuff?'' Elaine responds, ''And have everybody think I'm silly? No, thank you.''
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New York Times Company
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