Review: Lots to Like
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2012
There are many things to like about Woodstock Forty Years Later. The author raises interesting questions about roads not taken, midlife crises, fidelity, forgiveness, and second chances. Unfortunately, he leaves too many questions unanswered, including two of the main plot points in the novel.Another shortcoming involved the author's research on the actual 40th Anniversary concert at Bethel in the Woods. He portrays it as a three day event with only a small sampling of the original bands. The event was actually a one day, six hour show that featured only acts that performed at the original show.A rewrite of the last 50 pages (and removal of the Epilogue)could easily bring this novel up to a 4.5 star rating in my book. The characters are interesting and well developed, the description is vivid, and the internal struggles of the protagonist are very believable.