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A review by doughastings
The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
4.0
Hilarious. The women are a little one dimensional, but I could still enjoy the book. A very good satire of modern politics, by returning to a monarchy. So clever. The edition I read was my father-in-law's from 1957, so that was cool too.
When I read the list of political parties, and hit "The Christian Atheists", I laughed so hard I woke my partner.
There were four of five sentences that were just pure genius that I tried so hard to remember, but alas, I cannot. But I think I would have been on a very similar page to Steinbeck, politically.
And I haven't read Steinbeck in decades, it makes me want to re-read all those books I read so long ago. And not just because Ursula LeGuin knew him when she was young and really liked 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
When I read the list of political parties, and hit "The Christian Atheists", I laughed so hard I woke my partner.
There were four of five sentences that were just pure genius that I tried so hard to remember, but alas, I cannot. But I think I would have been on a very similar page to Steinbeck, politically.
And I haven't read Steinbeck in decades, it makes me want to re-read all those books I read so long ago. And not just because Ursula LeGuin knew him when she was young and really liked 'The Grapes of Wrath'.