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The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun. Deep-Space Probes Second Edition draws on the latest research to explain why we should explore beyond the edge of the Solar System and how we can build highly sophisticated robot spacecraft to make the journey. Many technical problems remain to be solved, among them propulsion systems to permit far higher velocities, and technologies to build vehicles a fraction of the size of today’s spacecraft.

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Solid Phase Microextraction: Theory and Practice Janusz Pawliszyn Solid phase microextraction (SPME) is a recently proposed solvent-free sampling and sample preparation technique. SPME represents a quick, sensitive, and economical approach that can be adopted for field work and can be easily integrated with present analytical instrumentation into an automation process. Written by the inventor of the technique, Solid Phase Microextraction: Theory and Practice describes the theoretical and practical aspects of this new technology, which received an "R&D 100" Award in 1994 recognizing its invention as a major advancement in the analytical sciences. Solid Phase Microextraction: Theory and Practice, the first book on SPME, offers the reader:
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The first book you have to read about SPME!.......2000-05-12

This book was written by Prof Janusz Pawliszyn of Waterloo University (Toronto, Canada), the maker of SPME, a new solvent-free technique which combine sample preparation and sampling, and is a milestone for new millennium chemistry. Theoretical basis of SPME (thermodynamics and kinetics) are well explained and the steps for the development of method are thoroughly described. The book is complete with application notes about sampling in different matrixes and examples of use of this powerful technique in different fields (clinical, forensic, pharmaceutical), and take a look at future applications (e.g. industrial hygiene, field and biological samples, in-fibre derivatization). A very good book essential for chemists and not only for chemists....strongly recommended!

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"From first line to last, Speak of the Devil moves with a rare combination of intrigue and intensity. Its engine runs on high octane adrenalin. Richard Hawke delivers a winner."
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It’s a beautiful Thanksgiving morning in New York City. Perfect day for a parade, and Fritz Malone just happens to have drifted up Central Park West to take a look at the floats. Across the crowd-filled street he sees a gunman on a low wall, taking aim with a shiny black Beretta. Seconds later, the air is filled with bullets and blood.
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Racing against the tightest of clocks, Fritz finds himself confounded by Nightmare’s multiple masks and messengers. The killer is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. But as Fritz’s frantic investigation takes him from a convent in the Bronx to a hookers’ haven in central Brooklyn, the story behind the story–complete with wicked secrets on both sides of the law–begins to emerge. As Fritz zeroes in on the terrible, gruesome truth, the killer retaliates by making things personal, forcing Fritz to grapple with his deepest fear: sometimes nightmares really do come true.
In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut, Richard Hawke delivers a tale of flawed and unforgettable people operating at the ends of their ropes. It’s literary suspense that doesn’t let go until the last page.

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Give Me A Million Dollars.......2007-08-31

Here's an idea. Why not write a novel about a wisecracking PI? Sound fresh to you? I didn't think so. Maybe if we inaugurate a distinct writing style. Let's have the author. Write in. Short. Incomplete sentences. And let's wow the audience with some really snappy language. You and I get up in the morning, and put on our clothes, but PI Malone "worked my way into some fresh skins." These linguistic tics aside, RH writes a passable mystery story in which shoe leather investigation still rules. Forget the science fiction world of CSI, Malone hits the streets and digs up clues.

There's some good fun and suspense here as he tracks down a bad guy who shoots up parades, and demands some serious money from the city of New York. What do our tough police commissioner and our tough mayor do when he requests a million bucks? They say sure, no problem, and pack up the funds in a backpack (will 10,000 hundred dollar bills fit in a backpack?), and have our guy Malone bring it to a shopping mall.

About this time a believability alarm starts ringing in my head. Why would the city involve a PI to do all of their detective work for them? Why would the city immediately acquiesce to the demand for money? Why does the killer want the money to go to a group of nuns, one of whom is a lush? Why does he keep cutting of the fingers of the deputy mayor, and finally why does this tale have an unbelievable, outrageous ending? This book is a real wall bouncer, meaning that when you finish the thing you toss it against your living room wall.

On the plus side, it is reasonably well written, and some of the dialogue is funny.

Oh what a tangled web we weave..........2007-07-18

PI Fritz Malone just went out to get some bagels. When the shooting starts, he becomes involved, attempting to chase down a gunman. He becomes involved in a complex case that is not going in the direction that anyone wanted. When he starts turning over stones, there are a lot of surprises.

The case is interesting, at least enough to keep me reading. The main complaint that I had was that the author, at points, started sounding like the driver of a tour bus giving tourists a description of the city with historical footnotes added in. There was, perhaps, a little too much background color.

The novel has some amount of violence and language, about what you would expect in a PI type novel, with minimal sexual content (mostly by reference). It tends to be written as a thriller novel.

NYC based crime thriller.......2007-06-24

Richard Hawke's initial novel "Speak of the Devil" was a memorable effort containing ample doses of suspense and intrigue with an array of heroic and depraved characters on both sides of the law. Hawke's fuzzy demarcation between good and evil in his characters helps establish the unpredictable nature of his storyline.

Hawke's sarcastic protagonist Fritz Malone a gumshoe and illegitimate son of the ex-NYC police commisssioner unwittingly gets drawn into drama while performing a typical morning ritual for Big Apple denizens, buying bagels. It happens to be Thanksgiving morning and Malone decides to espy the parade. Without provacation a crazed gunman takes aim at actress Rebecca Gelpin dressed as Mother Goose and begins firing. Malone miraculously manages to save the actress who happens to be superstud NYC mayor Martin Leavitt's girlfriend. Others are not so lucky as a trail of slain victims are left in the aftermath.

It turns out that the mayor and Malone confidante police commissioner Tommy Carroll had been forewarned about this gutless attack via a noted penned from a faceless villain known as Nightmare. Malone who single handedly apprehended the suspect named Diaz was brought in for questioning and stunningly learned that Diaz was killed while in police custody.

So begins a reign of terror orchestrated by Nightmare who increasingly ups his monetary demands to desist with the violence. Malone gets recruited by authorities to find this madman and soon finds that there are some curious connections to the 95th precinct based in Brooklyn's Fort Peterson. This group of cops was scandalized by massive amounts of graft and corruption. Malone is also steered to an order of nuns who recently were at the center of controversy themselves. One member, Sister Margaret was found to have committed suicide, her body found in Prospect Park.

Malone advised by his mentor and girlfriend Margo's dad Charlie is led through the seamy underbelly of Brooklyn looking for a notorious criminal prince of the streets Angel Ramos who is suspected of being Nightmare. While in pursuit he unveils a much more convoluted plot than he expects as he strives to thwart further mayhem conceived by the devious Nightmare.

Boring.......2007-06-10

Very procedural, no emotional connection to any of the characters, if you are a fan of the genre avoid this, very dissapointing.

Couldn't put it down........2007-05-09

I am always thrilled when I discover a new author whose story line and unique writing style keeps me turning pages.

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Americans were shocked to learn that one of our own had fought for the Taliban. Emerging froma gruesome battle at the end of the Afghan War onto the evening news, the so-called American Taliban would become linked inextricably to the CIA paramilitary who interrogated him, All-American Hero Mike Spann, who died in that battle, beaten and tortured to death. Public opinion was one of outrage. The Bush administration vowed to make an example of the traitor. Attorney General John Ashcroft promised to bring Lindh to justice for participating in the murder of Spann. Why then, after threatening treason and the death penalty, did the government suddenly abandon a trial in favor of a soft plea deal? Why did they let him get away with it? To answer the question, this book puts John Walker Lindh on trial, but it also examines the case against the U.S. government that a trial might have revealed. What double game did the government play before the Afghan War, involving oil pipelines, CIA soldiers, and Saudi payoffs? Why did they hang Mike Spann out to dry?

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Time to vote out the enemy.......2005-08-11

Mahoney provides a meticulously researched treastise that exposes the incestuous link between many of our leaders and the Taliban/terrorists. Mahoney is particularly revealing and damning (through his presentation of facts, not opinion) concerning the Bush administrations and their very close links with the Saudis and the oil industry. The author details not only what President G.W. Bush knew about the pre-9/11 attacks but also how he and his fellow power brokers helped foster and fund the very groups that attacked us. It seems a pipeline through Afganistan and the megamillions it would bring (no, not to you; to your political and industrial leaders) were more important than protecting us from a threat that, as Mahoney clearly shows, was very well known long before the attack on the Twin Towers. Only after 9/11 did President Bush choose to replace sending millions of dollars to the Taliban with sending bombs.

There are heroes in the book, people such as the late FBI's John O'Neill, who knew what was going on and encouraged our leaders to act. These few brave souls were summarily marginalized and dispensed with. However, by detailing their insights and courage, Mahoney offers some hope, if his readers can only find the will to even partially replicate their bravery.

Getting Away with Murder, though bleak, encourages us through example to speak out, to act, and to vote with selfless conviction.

What else does the government and Mr. Mahoney have to hide?.......2004-09-16

Mr. Mahoney covers a lot of ground in his book but at the end fails to provide anything but a hypothetical argument based on circumstantial evidence to suggest, but not prove, that either John Walker Lindh or the "American government" is responsible for the "murder" (Mr. Mahoney's words) of CIA para-military operative Johnny Michael Spann. The book is very interesting, and provides great insight into both the Global War on Terror and Mr. Spann who was a brave and selfless servant and hero of our country. However, the book does not live up to the sensational title or provocative pictures on the cover jacket.

First of all was there a "murder?" Murder is a civil crime. Despite Mr. Mahoney's excellent research, he fails to include a discussion of the "law of land warfare." This law clearly states that in war combatants are allowed to kill other combatants. Mr. Lindh certainly was a combatant. However, was Mr. Spann a "combatant" or a "non-combatant" advisor to US forces? If Mr. Mahoney had addressed the thorny issue of whether members of the CIA' SAD (Special Activities Division) were "combatants" or merely "non-combatant advisors to US combat forces" he might have provided some insights to the complex and critical discussion on the roles US government and civilian "non-combatants" can/should play in times of war. These include but are not limited to: Can non-combatants carry weapons? If they carry weapons can they fire at the enemy? Does the Geneva Convention cover government non-military or civilian non-combatants? The Department of Defense is wrestling with these issues as more and more support services provided to combat troops are being outsourced to non-DOD organizations.

Mr. Mahoney devotes a chapter to building an argument for how historical US foreign policies may have contributed to the rise of terrorism, but in it he deals unevenly with the relative contributions of the last three administrations. He spends a good deal of time detailing alleged Saudi influence during the Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations but does not mention a word on the possibility that Saudi money may have contributed to US foreign policy making during the Clinton administration. I find that interesting because according to Richard Perle and David Frum, in "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror" the Saudis were shamelessly seeking to influence the Clinton administration. Here is a quotation from Perle and Frum's book: "Within a month of Bill Clinton's winning the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1992 the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce donated $3.5 million to the University of Arkansas to create a `King Fahd Center for Middle East Islamic Studies.' One month after Clinton's inauguration the University of Arkansas got $20 million more from the Saudis." Saudi money is an insidious and perhaps near omnipresent factor in our government's foreign policy decision-making processes regardless of our President's political party.

Mr. Mahoney spends thirty pages detailing the heroic efforts John O'Neill made to combat terrorism while in the FBI, but I am not sure this interesting discussion contributes to the question "who got away with murder?" I sincerely agree with Mr. Mahoney that John O'Neill should never have been forced into retirement and that he was perhaps our nation's most effective pre-9-11 antiterrorism agent. However, it was the policies of President Clinton's Administration, the Janet Reno Justice Department, and the entrenched bureaucrats in the FBI that failed to allow O'Neill's unorthodox approach to his responsibilities, and ultimately forced him to retire. Mr. Mahoney leads us to believe that it was the Bush Administration's approach to foreign policy that caused O'Neill to retire. Additionally, Mahoney never mentioned that it was a memo from a key member of Reno's Justice Department in 1995 that precluded the CIA from sharing intelligence information about participants at the January 2000 Al-Quida meeting in Kuala Lumpur with the FBI. Two Al-Quida attendees of that meeting subsequently came to the United States and "played key roles in the September 11 cataclysm." Had the FBI received the nanes from the CIA those two Al-Quida could have been interdicted while entering the USA.

I enjoyed this book for Mr. Mahoney's detailed research. However, he obviously had a political axe to grind because he selectively shares information that is very critical of Republican Administrations, but shades the impact of the Clinton Administration foreign policy and Reno's Justice Department errors. An example is that Mr. Mahoney went into great detail about the problems Attorney General Ashcroft brought upon himself while trying to bring charges against Mr. Lindh, but he does not even mention the Justice Department/FBI scandal regarding the 1995 Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City. In Jayna Davis' book "The Third Terrorist" she convincingly makes the case that Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols did not act alone. Although the book was published in 2004, beginning the day of the bombing Ms. Davis gathered evidence and collected statements from eyewitnesses that clearly implicated foreign participants and perhaps even foreign/Al-Quida control of the Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City. Although she provided all her information including the names of the eyewitnesses to the FBI in OKC, they never followed up on it and were content to prosecute only McVeigh and Nichols. Apparently an order not to pursue the leads Davis provided the FBI came from up the FBI/Justice Department chain-of-command. If Al-Quida was involved in the 1995 OKC bombing why wouldn't the leadership of our country want to expose it? Perhaps the fact that McVeigh's execution had to be postponed in 2002 after it was revealed that the Justice Department/FBI had withheld evidence from McVeigh's defense attorneys is another indication of the kind of problems that exist in the bureaucracy that is supposed to honor the law while defending and protecting the rights of American citizens. If the Department of Homeland Security and the new Intelligence Czar are going to provide this nation better service than our national intelligence and police forces have in the past, a thorough investigation of Jayna Davis's startling allegations is required ASAP.

Perhaps Mr. Mahoney's next project should be to research and publish a book that explores why in 1995-2004 the Justice Department and FBI failed to follow-up on the evidence and witnesses Jayna Davis provided them. Who in Clinton's Administration made the decision not to pursue the Islamic connection to the Murrah Building bombing and why didn't McVeigh and Nichols ever implicate the Islamic men they were seen with before April 19th 1995 and in the case of McVeigh on the day of the bombing? Why didn't Secretary Ashcroft take immediate steps to reopen the OKC bombing investigation after he was confirmed? The nation deserves answers to these questions.

A moving and important book.......2004-09-13

I almost didn't buy this book. The world is awash with 'what really happened' books, and the cover contrives to suggest one of those 'inside the organisation' action accounts which make good beach reading but add little.
In fact this is an extraordinarily clear and touching account of the struggle going on on for the soul of America, personalised by the two tragic lives of Mike Spann - CIA agent,and John Walker Lindh - the young Californian fleeing from the degeneracy as he saw it of his home society and finding a fate he could never have imagined as 'The American Taliban.' Their story is framed between chapters detailing the history of US foreign relations since the sixties which alone would would earn the book a place on my reference shelf. Mr Mahoney's respect and love for the best of American culture and tradition confronts his disgust at its takeover by the power of oil and money which he unhesitatingly describes as 'corrupt.' As a lawyer, he is well placed to detail the scandal surrounding the quashing of the Lindh trial, but he expressly avoids any implication that this was simply a case of a misled teenager. While its a litle hard to believe that the one thing standing between arrest of some of the Twin towers attackers before their attack was an interoffice feud between the FBI in Washington and their New York chief, John O'Neill, Mahoney neverthless regards Mr O'Neill - tragically killed on 9/11 - as a true American hero.
Well researched, well written and well connected, this is an important book. Buy it America! Read it! Then go out and vote -before its too late.

Great Read!.......2004-07-02

I found this book spellbinding. Mahoney takes two ordinary lives before 9/11, that of Mike Spann (CIA paracommander) and John Walker Lindh (the American Taliban), and spins them into the web that the United States, the Soviets, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have been weaving for decades. Spann and Lindh will come face to face in Afghanistan, a meeting with a tragic ending, but what are the global circumstances that the world powers put into motion that led to this fateful rendezvous? Mahoney takes us into a historical perspective spelling out the wheeling and dealing that went into supporting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, the plan to build oil pipelines, the Saudis financing terrorists, and how the United States, rather than submit to an investigation that would reveal its duplicity and involvement, dropped nine out of ten charges against Lindh.

WHO did "get away with murder"?.......2004-06-20

Who "gets away with murder"?

This is a wonderful "read". Sketches of Mike Spann (CIA hero and casualty), Lindh (the American Taliban), and O'Neill (the terror expert who might have made the difference) grab the reader as much as a well documented discussion of the Bush administration's questionable role bargaining with the Taliban; responding ineffectually immediately after 9-11; screwing up their case against Lindh.

Given the total naiveté of young recruits sequestered in the Indian Ocean on ship and brainwashed about Saddam's role sponsoring 9-11 (a total myth), one might buy the notion that Lindh was a naïve, confused, idealist looking for clarity and Faith. Spann, a hero, may have been equally naïve and equally expendable to his government. War in Afghanistan was planned before 9-11 and the decision to attack Iraq was made in the first weeks of the Bush administration. The rest, as becomes increasingly clear, was "smoke and mirrors" (to put it kindly).

You can decide just who (several parties maybe) "got away with murder."

Any book on current events will prove to have some errors. Here, aside from a proof reader who uses the Buddhist `sutra' for the Muslim `surah' there are a couple worth mentioning. The evidence that George Bush before the Gulf War hoodwinked the Saudis and the public about the satellite photos showing immanent Iraqi invasion - to get their support and American bases in Saudi Arabia (a key critical bin Laden `cause') - is now very convincing and includes satellite photos showing no such thing and the government's failure to produce or even show their evidence `off the record.' Salafiya is not identical to Wahabism as is implied. Nevertheless the story is compelling, great reading, and makes one think.

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In 1824, John Walker purchased a 500-acre farm in King and Queen County, Virginia, and began working it with a dozen slaves. The son of a local politician and planter who grew tobacco, Walker lost status when he became a devout Methodist, raised wheat, and treated his slaves like brothers and sisters. He also kept a detailed and fascinating journal.

Drawing on this forty-three-year chronicle, Claudia L. Bushman provides a richly illuminating study, a microhistory that is rewarding to read. Walker sets aside most of the "Old South planter" stereotype. He sold wheat in Baltimore and Norfolk and invested in railroad stock, and yet he grew, spun, and wove cotton for clothing, tanned leather, and made shoes. He avoided lavish creature comforts in favor of purchasing the latest farm equipment. So far from losing out to soil exhaustion, he experimented with improved farming methods, nourished his land, and kept his yields high.

Walker's journal describes the legal cases he tenaciously pursued, records devotion to the local Methodist church, and explains his practice of Thomsonian medicine on slaves and family members alike. He provides insight into women's work and lays out the drama of blacks and whites living in close intimacy and constant fear. Walker humbly referred to himself as "a poor illiterate worm," but his diary dramatically captures the life of a small planter in antebellum Virginia.

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In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
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Title: In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker.(Book Review)
Author: G. Terry Sharrer
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
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Kevin Bentley faithfully kept a frank, literate diary of his experiences as a young gay man living in San Francisco in the 1970s. In passages that are arousing, thoughtful, and funny, he details a scene of unrivaled sexual hedonism. First and foremost an erotic record, Wild Animals I Have Known is also the diary of a bookish, terrified, exuberantly promiscuous, and laughably romantic gay man’s exploits during the heyday of San Francisco’s gay bohemia. “[Bentley’s] writing is direct, intelligent, savagely funny, and very, very erotic.” — Kevin Dax, author of D.O.C. Lust Letters

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Those good ol' days.......2005-07-13

I can't believe that Kevin Bentley is still alive after everything, or should I say--everyone he's had!!! This book was very special for me because I grew up in that area also and so know all the places he frequented. He was a busy guy. The book is very descriptive but somehow doesn't really seem pornographic. He must feel like a lone survivor in a nuclear wasteland having done everything he did and stills lives to tell about it. He writes very well and I liked this book and recommend it to all who want to relive those good ol' days when condoms were not used and there was nothing to be concerned about except where the next trick was coming from.

Every year the same honest story.......2002-08-03

The first part of the book gives an idea about gaylife in San Francisco at the glory days. No fear of AIDS, just 'concerning' being a top or a bottom and while kissing a man flirting with the bartender.
Then death comes to town. Kevin, the author, just describes he is missing his friends and in the meanwhile is still hungry for sex.

This book has no real message. It is a dating-report of twenty years full of sex. Like a pornmovie, that makes it quite boring after a few pages. On the other hand, it is very honestly and maybe that's the reason that you will read it to the end.

A dramatic, vividly portrayed, and legendary gay milieu.......2002-07-06

Kevin Bentley's remarkable memoir, Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries And After, is set in San Francisco during the late 1970s and is based on Bentley's personal diary. In 1997 he was 21 years old, bookish, exuberantly promiscuous, laughably romantic, terrified new arrival. A young gay man arrived in the "gay mecca" that was San Francisco, a place where he would stay until his fortieth year. Here detailed are the gay bars, baths, a quirky old financial district book store, a funky apartment building on Nob Hill, street fairs, and side trips to Monterey, Santa Fe, and even West Texas. But it is the stories of love, sex, self-doubt, friendship, and unapologetic partying that comprised the basic elements of the gay lifestyle that truly grab the reader's total attention. Wild Animals I Have Known is an autobiographical "picture window back through time" offering a dramatic, vividly portrayed, and legendary gay milieu.

Being young and gay in San Francisco during the late-1970s.......2002-06-29

The entries that Kevin Bentley has chosen to publish from his "Polk Street Diaries" of that era are primarily about sexual adventures, often comic misadventures. Anyone who does not want to read about men having sexual encounters with men should steer away from this book. Like Renaud Camus's TRICKS from the same pre-AIDS era, or Ricardo Ramos's FLIPPING about that time in San Francisco, Bentley was finding out who the men he met were through sex: what they did, how they did it, and the places they lived. It was often the books (or the total lack of books), the recorded music (LPs then),, and the artifacts in a trick's room or apartment that made incompatibility obvious.

"Getting laid" was a focus then and there for gay men (and for most young men most of the time in other eras and locales). However, it was necessary to make a living to have a place to live and to pay bar cover charges (and, perchance, to eat, bhough that was a low priority at the time). The gay novels of Manhattan/Provincetown/Fire Island sex, drugs, and disco elide this, leaving readers to guess how the characters acquired money. Something I particularly appreciate in Bentley's book is his chronicling the difficulty of making a living. It also chronicles what the Swedish investigator Benny Henriksson dubbed "the risk factor of love" (reducing "promiscuity" and having unprotected sex with an HIV-infected partner).

Like the fictional inhabitants of 28 Barbary Lane, Bentley paid no attention to politics (gay, HIV-prevention, or any other kind). Less sexually adventurous than Bentley, and writing in a "family newspaper," Armistead Maupin in his well-known "tales" only hint at what life was like for gay men during "the golden age of promiscuity." Written at the time (though culled recently), these diary entries tells it like it was--without apologies, without shame, and without the chauvinism of "lgtb pride."

Puts the sex back into homosexuality........2002-05-07

Too much gay writing these days tries to ignore the very thing that makes us gay - men having sex with men. Kevin Bentley's frank diary entries puts gay sex where it belongs, right in the center of his narrative.

Memoirs of gay life in San Francisco's golden age - between Stonewall and AIDS - are precious and few, in part because so many of the men who lived during that period are dead. "Wild Animals I Have Known", in my humble opinion, is the best memoir of 1970's San Francisco gay life that I have read so far. Though Bentley is as apolitical as most gays then or now - he ignored Harvey Milk and spent the White Night Riots getting the clap from a trick on a rooftop - by living an openly gay life he acted out the ideals of gay liberation. Bravo, Kevin!

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