Re: Krakauer
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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
So I was particularly chagrined at how poorly conceived and executed was "Under the Banner of Heaven." It contained nothing original, shamelessly digressed to ensure a book length work, didn't improve on the presentation of the old material, and its central thesis was a stretch. Some Mormons must really have been unkind to him when he was a kid.
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I enjoyed it simply because I wasn't very familiar with the Lafferty's before I read the book. He brought in a lot of extraneous material that detracted from the telling of that story. I suppose if Truman Capote had written the book, it would have been much better.
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