Those with knowledge of Jewish mysticism will probably find more resonances than the lay reader, for whom the book is less an allegory than a frantic phantasmagoria, scary and bewildering, full of unwanted transformations and disappearances and suffering, without a light at the end of what Danny calls a “tunnel that leads from death into life”—that is, adulthood, where the terrain is “jagged rocks.” Danny doesn’t want to stay trapped in the tunnel, of course, but nor does he want to emerge, plunge and be dashed on the rocks below. Welcome to adolescence.Background here.
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Review of Halperin, Journal of a UFO Investigator
DAVID HALPERIN'S JOURNAL OF A UFO INVESTIGATOR is reviewed by Adam Sobsey in indyweek.com. Excerpt: