Richard Rushfield’s memoir, “Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost” details his years spent at Hampshire College during the late 80’s/ early 90’s. I simply did not buy into his story at all. It felt like someone who was recalling a series of events that over the years grew more monumental in his own mind. I also think they are stories that are far more interesting to the people who were actually there, rather than the reader. I felt like I was reading a bunch of inside jokes that I just didn’t get.

Rushfield explains that Hampshire was a very experimental college. I get it. I have done the small liberal arts college thing. In fact, my experience at Bard, included a very odd class registration process that seems would have fit right in as part of Rushfield’s college experience. I just didn’t buy into the extremes of Rushfield’s story. It was too much. It was also not very interesting to read. If you’re going to be outlandish, at least be entertaining.