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In the New York Times Book Review , Katha Pollitt calls the book "riveting and disturbing," though she adds, "I often found myself wondering how much of her own story Maynard understands."
And Springer is riveting, excruciating television.
He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.
New York 's Walter Kirn dissents from the pack, complaining of McKibben's books in general--"his combination of arrogance and sincerity, narcissism and asceticism, is riveting and infuriating at once"--and of this book in specific--"The thesis is ancient and hard to argue with, though something in McKibben's pious manner may make one want to try."
USA Today 's Katy Kelly writes, "The plague problem, which should be riveting, is so well-explained that it wearies the reader."