There are sections of brilliance, exposes of truth and not entirely unfounded strains of honest, real thought where I felt both awe of reading genius and simple satisfaction of his acknowledgment of the obvious in people. To Miller sex is not sacred. He describes it with the full detail and all the sentiment of a dentist detailing a root canal or tooth replacement or the innocent physics of the combustion engine. His lengthy treatments of normally taboo topics of conversation as commonplace intertwine with his philosophical meanderings to yield a raw, and some will find disturbing, portrait of being.