"Tell all the truth but tell it slant," said Emily Dickinson.

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	• 1996 Gloria Naylor Third World Press, 2005 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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Scary Implications

This is, by Naylor's own admission, a highly fictionalized account of her life during that year. She admits what happened can made readers think she had a nervous breakdown or that she's a target of harassment by the National Security Administration. COINTEL and the Bush Adminstration provide examples of the government spying on ordinary citizens but this can't explain Naylor's Anti Semitic remarks or her going into details about the head of the NSA, Dick Smith's sexual habits.
It's an intriguing work and will inspire many foes and allies but I think most people will be like me, wondering just what to believe.

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Fascinating and Frightening

I read this book because I love Gloria Naylor. I hadn't heard about any of her travesties from 1996 before reading this book. I found it frightening at times, but it was so compelling, I couldn't put it down. Of course, certain parts are fictionalized, but Ms. Naylor obviously did a lot of research on domestic intelligence and mind control while writing this book. I recommend it for all Gloria Naylor fans and for anyone wishing to know more about the capabilities of the U.S. government.

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1996

Very interesting. I feel like the heart of her story is real. There are some details she obviously added to give the story flow. It's a great rainy day read that will get you thinking about the state of things in our country. Finish it quickly though, it kind of drags towards the end without really tying everything back in to the story. Should just be non-fiction.

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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant," said Emily Dickinson.

That's advice Emily Dickinson offered to writers. Gloria Naylor does just that in her "nonfiction/novel," "1996." As yet another
person subjected to this sort of harassment by government-paid creeps willing to do anything they're told-- and isn't that what the military (for one obvious example) is about, surrendering one's free will and judgment to those in charge, just as happens in a "cult"??-- I want to congratulate Gloria Naylor on an amazing piece of work.

I have to say, as a professional writer and editor, that Gloria Naylor could have used a better editing job to showcase her work. I imagine bigger publishing houses were frightened of this, not able to discern what is truth and what is fiction here... and scared to dig deeper. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, si?

Gloria Naylor simply "stepped in something" here, in having come afoul of a control-freak neighbor with family connections in the NSA... if that is indeed the whole story.

She wrote it at this slant, obviously, because it was clear to her that to speak openly in the Kafka-esque labyrinth of today's political minefield is flat-out dangerous.

Another recent novel that tells the truth in this fashion, I believe, is John LeCarre's "The Constant Gardener," which Fernando Mireilles made into an excellent film about the depradations of "big pharma" in the Third World.

Others among us are a tad closer to the bone than Ms. Naylor, having stumbled unaware on truths the government would rather keep secret.

As with any inconvenient truth, however, the rolling weight of accumulating evidence eventually trumps the will to conceal. The number of lay reviewers here corroborating Ms. Naylor's experience ought to give any serious educated reader pause.

Let me recommend also Carol Rutz's "A Nation Betrayed." Privately printed and deserving of far broader circulation, Ms. Rutz's book tells a tale that is several levels deeper into the sub-basement of government mind control adventurism, using tiny children (who have now become middle-aged adults, including Ms. Rutz and persons very dear to me) as unconsenting subjects in the pursuit of the same sadistic power as Ms. Naylor's "chirping"
and game-playing mercenary creeps.

Bravo to Third World Press for producing this (even if imperfectly) and bravo to Gloria for telling the truth. Miss Emily Dickinson would be proud of her.

--Amalie Bear

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This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government. This domestic spying both destroys the peace and tranquility of the writer?s home and raises serious questions about the use of surveillance and technology by the government.

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