Power on Earth (Hardcover)

by Nick Tosches (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 290 pages
• Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co; First Edition edition (August 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670749907
• ISBN-13: 978-0877957966
• ASIN: 0877957967
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #572,952 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Power schmower, March 21, 2003

By	Kris (Oxnard, CA) - See all my reviews

Maybe if you remember this man, Sidona, you might better understand his plight than I did.

The first part of this book is wall to wall confusion, reading like the Italian yellow pages. There are also many quotes in Italian, and these might help aspiring linguists, like me. Otherwise, only a few stalwarts will wade through this first half of the book.

Later, in the second half of the book, the pace picks up some, when Mr. (Signore?) Sidona finally gets caught by the law's so-called long arm. Mr. Tosches originally approached Sidona about a book after his fall from grace, while he was "resting" in an Italian prison. Tosches keeps the ball of Sidona up in the air for a little bit longer, with this book, but maybe Sidona's ball deserves to just fall and come to a final resting point.

I say this because, after all, Sidona wanted to play fast and loose, he took his inherent gifts (he was good with numbers, well educated and an avvocatto, a lawyer, and apparently was a personable sort of fellow with all the contacts he had), but what did he do with these talents? Well, he tried to aggrandize himself, and is this any new story? He ran with the wolves and he paid the price, end of story.

Thanks to Nick Tosches for keeping the ball in the air a little longer. This helps the generations following Sidona and his age cohorts to understand the crazy world which precedes them, like a bad reputation. Diximus.