Gina's review

i read bad reviews of this book, but i like robert stone very much. so you liked it, hey?

as some of the critics said, its chief fault was its length: too short. stone has a tendency here to be perhaps too telegraphic at times, almost as if he feels the ground has been well enough covered by others (Kesey, Tom Wolfe, et alia). but if you've read plenty of other accounts, and also were semi-sentient living through the '60s, stone's chapters read as these lucid glosses upon key events. he's engaged in more than marginalia, for sure, but reading prime green is somewhat akin to reading someone else's well thumbed and scribbled upon copy of a beloved text.

i wasn't semi-sentient in the 60s. i was in italy! but i love the way robert stone writes, and if you think this is vintange stone i want to read it for sure. maybe i won't learn a lot about the 60s but i may just have a good time!

since this is the only robert stone i've read, apart from a few articles here and there, i couldn't say whether it's vintage or not.