For years, I had been telling Marsha that all of Stephen's Garbage Truck articles should be published. I wanted to see the young man in those essays. Hear a young man's anger, worry, frustration, victories. I guess I wanted the book all about Stephen's days at college, his place in the history that was happening. So, three things:
I was disappointed to see that the book was a lot of other people's ideas. Not that they aren't interesting or valid, I just didn't care what these random people had to say. Not very nice of me but just being honest.
There weren't very many Garbage Trucks and by what I understand, he cleaned them up before they got in the book. That's not what I wanted.
And I didn't want the reprint of Hearts In Atlantis.
But, having said all of that, I am very grateful the book even exists even if it is just a small taste of what I wanted. And again, I may be so surprised when I get to the end and realize I needed to keep an open mind and have a little faith.