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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."
David Fincher's Seven thrust Walker's worldview into your viscera; I can still recall that film's gun battle, set in a long corridor, with its slingshot angles and bullets that seemed to explode beside your head, and the ghastly sight, both riveting and repellent, of a partially flayed, obese corpse, its milky white blubber framing intestines that looked like blue balloons.
To cite one example, in A Bright Shining Lie , one of the most riveting books about the war, Neil Sheehan doesn't take evidence that the war was finally being won by the United States and South Vietnam seriously.
It told the riveting story of how I--"perhaps the only self-proclaimed conservative journalist devoted to digging up stories rather than writing editorials," author of a best-selling attack on Anita Hill, and "the star reporter at the [ American ] Spectator"-- came to break the Troopergate story, and how Troopergate begat Paula Jones, and how Paula Jones begat Monica Lewinsky.
It is a riveting tale written by someone who gave it texture as it unfolded, and I doubt that any reviewer save this one will take him to task for his ingratitude to Linda Tripp.