Review Of Peter Ames Carlin's Catch A Wave
By DJ M on July 21st, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
NY TIMES VIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE "As his subtitle suggests, the author is enamored of the Wilson myth - it's a selling point, after all, and it's not without truth - but Carlin is too scrupulous to ignore more nuanced shadings and contradictions; his Wilson is both a victim, too fragile for this world, and a passive-aggressive manipulator, a man who, at times, willfully squandered his talent. Carlin tells his story well and sensitively, and only rarely lapses into glib rock-critic-ese."