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- "How To Destroy A Book"
- Summary: A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.
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Review of How To Destroy A Book
Michael Johnson
Posted on November 14, 2006 at 08:41 PM
This story of a library vandal targeting books perceived to be on gay and lesbian topics and their subsequent transformation into artworks by community members starts out promisingly enough, taking a page from This American Life's style book with interviews backed by music, but after the balance of voice & music star to fall apart, the inconsistent audio quality of the interviewees begins to distance the listener from the material, and the "sountracky" music attempts to lead the listener to a certain emotional conclusion, a job which the voices alone could have done on their own.