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A review by aneides
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
4.0
This is one of those books in which even the marginally sympathetic characters are extremely flawed and the unsympathetic characters are very, very unpleasant. Why spend so much time with people I despise? Maybe in part because I want to learn to like Boyle's longer fiction as much as I like the short stories that I've encountered.
The story turns out less brutal than I had expected. I was sure a lot of the Drop Citizens would freeze or starve to death or perhaps piss off the locals enough to murder them. Maybe I'm a bit disappointed that the privation and violence were fairly minimal.
I thought I detected several anachronisms in the text, mostly food-related, but I can't be sure because I wasn't around in 1970.
The story turns out less brutal than I had expected. I was sure a lot of the Drop Citizens would freeze or starve to death or perhaps piss off the locals enough to murder them. Maybe I'm a bit disappointed that the privation and violence were fairly minimal.
I thought I detected several anachronisms in the text, mostly food-related, but I can't be sure because I wasn't around in 1970.