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A review by kingfan30
Drop City by T.C. Boyle, Richard Poe
3.0
When I first picked this book up I got a bit of a quizzing from hubby as he took one look at the cover and wondered what on earth I was reading 😂 It did as a result make me quite conscious of how I left it on my desk at work!
I think this may well be my first book based during the hippy era, and at first I wasn't quite sure I would enjoy it. The whole laziness of them in their Californian commune was pretty disgusting really and it's no wonder the authorities wanted them moved on. The other part of the story based in Alaska was fairly interesting, how they had to grow and store as much as they could while the weather was good to make sure they had enough to get through winter. Of course the two parts of the story come together eventually with some interesting consequences.
It wasn't a bad story, but it did seem to take me an age to get through it, at times I couldn't muster up the enthusiasm to pick it up.
I think this may well be my first book based during the hippy era, and at first I wasn't quite sure I would enjoy it. The whole laziness of them in their Californian commune was pretty disgusting really and it's no wonder the authorities wanted them moved on. The other part of the story based in Alaska was fairly interesting, how they had to grow and store as much as they could while the weather was good to make sure they had enough to get through winter. Of course the two parts of the story come together eventually with some interesting consequences.
It wasn't a bad story, but it did seem to take me an age to get through it, at times I couldn't muster up the enthusiasm to pick it up.