Vowles writes well and very judiciously avoids inflammatory rhetoric of the sort most often associated with stereotypical activists. He presents information and then appeals to readers' reason, rather than their emotions. Unfortunately, the bluntest of information - statistics - dampen Vowles' voice and the power of his writing significantly.
While writing about Poverty and HIV/AIDS prevention he relies too heavily on stats, presenting a situation that seems far too gargantuan to have any effect on. But that's not the end of the damage these numbers do. The prevalence of stats in these chapters also seems to have negatively affected the writing, since it becomes disjointed and convoluted where once it was straightforward and fairly clear.
As the final stretch of 21st Century Hippies appears on the horizon, however, I have high hopes for a return to form.
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