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- From: misek@boulder.parcplace.com (Steve Misek)
- Subject: ** Acceptable Risks **
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- Organization: ParcPlace Boulder
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:18:28 GMT
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- A few weeks ago a new book went on display at a bookstore in
- Denver (Category 6). I purchased a copy, went home, poured a
- large glass of wine, found one of the heater cats for my lap,
- sat down and started to read. For the next few hours my
- emotions ran the gamut from extreme rage and anger, to sadness,
- to daydreams about people I once new, and back again. Quite a
- few tears as well.
-
- Whenever I stumble into an incredible book, I have this annoying
- habit of buying up a dozen or so copies and forcing everyone I
- know to read it... :-)
-
- The book is:
- Acceptable Risks
- by Jonathan Kwitney
- Poseidon Press/Simon & Schuster
- ISBN: 0-671-73244-7
-
- #ifdef ABOUT_TO_GET_ONTO_MY_SOAPBOX
-
- Last night an ex-boyfriend called from Baton Rouge to chat....
- we chatted about the holidays, gossiped, etc... and somewhere
- in the middle of all this he accidentally slipped and mentioned
- that his Tcell count dropped below 24 last week. This morning
- I hit the local book stores and bought up another dozen copies
- of the book to send to more people (and to him, since his current
- doctor is so pathetic).
-
- The book is a very fast read. In a nutshell
- the book discusses the moral and ethical aspects of drug
- legalization; and how current FDA and Customs policy has
- contributed to the death of thousands of americans. This book
- ranks up there with "The Band Played On", and "The Mayor of
- Castro Street" and will probably be looked back upon as one
- of the most important books every written about the AIDS crisis.
- It discusses all of the alternative medications on the market,
- and quickly brings you up to speed on which ones work, and which
- ones don't. And gives you an incredible insight into what ACT-UP
- has been fighting for for all these years.
-
- #endif
-
- Ok, Ok, I'll come down off my soapbox now... however if you need
- an incredible book to read... please look for this book. For those
- of you living in siberia (sorta like me... I live in Colorado) you
- can probably order this through Lambda Rising, or any of those
- incredible big city book stores that I would kill to live next to.
-
- steve
- misek@parcplace.com
-