Another Author's review--Thank you Richard--gotta read yours
Ten Years After the Future Bill Samos Reviewed by Richard McClain 4 stars My own experience of the 60s was shaped by southern California, that laid-back la-la-land where nothing seemed real and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was easy to relate to staggering around in the sand of Venice Beach. If you can keep up with it, you’ll love Stamos’s phantasmagoric hallucinogenic vision of the 60s. It touches all the bases of the times. From the upper reaches of Oakland on the east side of San Francisco Bay, to Berkeley with scholars and drop-outs, to a strangely normal commune in Oregon, to the fearsome hell of Vietnam. Donna and Sally, opposites though sisters, are the tentpoles of the whirling, spinning, dizzying action. Author Stamos lovingly details the cutesy old-fashioned teen world that was torn asunder by the WAR. And he has no mercy on the characters he invents. As it should be. Problem: it’s difficult to keep the characters straight, and it’s difficult to imagine the...