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About Drop City It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life.

But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart. A world away in Boynton, a tiny town in the interior of Alaska, Sess Harder, a pioneer who actually does live off the land, hunting, trapping and fishing, yearns for someone to share the harsh winters with him. When the authorities threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies abandon camp and head up north to Alaska, the last frontier. But neither they nor the inhabitants of Boynton are completely prepared for each other - and as the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born.

Drop City (2004) About book: (Full essay can be found at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)(Just like anyone else who is a lover of great books, I find myself sometimes with a desire to become a 'completist' of certain authors; that is, to have read every book that author has ever written. This new series of essays chronicles that attempt.)So first, a confession, that I still have a long way to go before becoming a completist of author TC Boyle; this is only the second novel of his I've read, to tell you the truth, the other one being The Road to Wellville, possibly his most famous because of the 1994 movie version starring Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Broderick, Bridget Fonda, John Cusack and more. Oh, but what a novel! Who knew that a contemporary author could paint such a vivid picture of events that happened nearly a century ago -- in this case, the formation of the various health spas in the upper Midwest at the turn of the 20th century, which for those who don't know were the groups who accidentally invented our modern breakfast cereals?

In fact, this is one of the things that Boyle is most known for as an author; for his meticulous and exacting research into whatever time period he is writing about, and whatever crazy events were happening during that time period. If this were written by anyone but TC Boyle, I would've given it four stars, however I've come to expect better from Boyle. The basic plot is not overly complex. A hippy commune--Drop City--is chased out of California and decides to reincarnate in Alaska as 'Drop City North'.

Overall, TC does a good job of bringing down the microscope on the whole hippy culture, the good and the bad. There are the innocents, idealistic dreamers, and the hustlers and layabouts who run their game under the guise of being true to the tenets of the culture. There are some fine descriptions of the hippy habitat, communal meals, parties, acid trips, etc. However, the story of Sess Harder and Pam led me down a road that didn't seem to end anywhere. It's a LONG parallel story.

I didn't buy Pam's character: why would a total babe like Pam take up with a backwoods misanthrope like Sess? I guessed she was a scout for Drop City, sent to con a lonely man in the Alaska wild--but no, she really falls for the guy. Or so we are told--literally--but I didn't buy it. I also didn't buy how quickly Sess accepts the hippies just upriver from his cabin.

From this point, the novel just loses focus, and all the characters karma (good or bad) comes back on them. A good read, but if you haven't read TC Boyle pick up any book of his short stories, and for a novel 'Water Music' was his best. I was very dissappointed by T.C. Boyle on this one. A sad depiction of communal living. Having lived in the midst myself, and visited other communes (intentional living places) all I can really say is his rendering is pure hogwash! I believe the man is a pig, he's lazy and lacking in ability to do proper research.

He seemed to find pleasure in making subtle innuendos using the norm of stereotypical stigma(s) in his writing. Sp Column 4.81 Crack. I found his book ridiculous.

The stigma around the counter culture needs to be diminished, not hardened, and his writings would foster hate as all squares & people who are not in the know would like to foster. I know a hell of a lot more about grass roots counter cultural movements, and those of us who do know may have a duty to report more on it. This is the only beneficial thing to come out of reading his despicable book.I was actually sickened by the way he portreyed my tribe, and the sort of people I was raised around. I really wish I had never had the experience of reading this book. I was pretty much horrified, page by desperate page, and only kept reading it, to see if before all his b.s. Ended there would be some kind of enlightenment glommed, on his part. Boyle failed miserably to gather the right information, to give the world a look inside the cult of personality we would call intentional living, now, once known as the commune in America.

All in all, an extremely *Massive Fail* to communicate the truth about hippy culture!ZeRo Stars.in fact Minus Three Stars, you ridiculous man. This book had caught me somewhat by surprise. Not in a good or bad way, rather just simply a way I did not anticipate the story going. The plot moves in a static style, jumping forward here and there and sometimes skipping scenes you would assume would be there. Which is okay, no complaints here, its just not the way I would have envisioned the story going, I guess. But I like surprises, so that works out just fine. I have read T.C. Baixar As Aventuras De Pi Dublado Mp4 there.

Before, his anthologized short story 'Greasy Lake' (which I LOVE, by the way), so I had a little bit of an idea on how T.C. Constructs things, seeing him on with larger canvas like this was really a delight. I read some of the other reviews before writing this, and although I think many of them have good points, the same things just didn't bother me as much. Many people said that he used 'and' too much, which is really a stylistic choice, much like some authors had using the word 'said' after every bit of dialogue, and instead change it to something different after every time someone speaks. Likes to have a static, intense style to his writing, you have to hear him speaking it while you're reading (go on youtube and watch him do a reading, it's more of a performance than a reading, believe me), and you'll understand why he wrote it the way he did.

Another complaint I heard was that they didn't like the characters. Which boggles my mind, because if you hate the hippies, and this book is about a hippie comune, then why pick up the book in the first place? Of course they're going to do hippie things, and have hippie-like ideals, at least most of the time. If you despise counter culture I think you might still enjoy this book because it's not really a 'hippie's are awesome and i wish we were all hippies!' Kind of book, rather, it's a 'make of this what you will' kind of book, one where the answer is something you fill in the gaps for, instead of the book providing it.

Unless you just want to be judgmental of the whole thing, of course. But really, I enjoyed reading the story for the glimpse of these rambling nomads looking for a place to call their own, I found them interesting.

For me it didn't matter what their lifestyle choices were, I was just interested in where the story was taking them, because in the end that's all that should matter.