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Title: Last Days of the Late, Great State of California by Curt Gentry ISBN: 0-89174-021-X Publisher: Comstock Book Distributors Pub. Date: June, 1977 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hey! Dontcha tell anybody the whole place is shakin' away!
Comment: I prolly haven't thought about this great book in years, and whaddya know, I no sooner get home from the polls after voting AGAINST Total Recall, and a magnitude 3.5 earthquake hits home right here in the ultra-Kalifornian city of San Diego -- Amerika's Finest. Well, I just had to write. I read this book when it was new and I was almost new, back in the dystopian years of Ronald Raygun's first administration as governor of the Late Great State ("Seen one redwood..." you know the rest...) It was a great time to be in high school, shades of Almost Famous and all, but a terrible time to be an environmentalist. Earth Days were new and Kalifornia was growing old, and cranky, and ultra-conservative. Christ! They called the Guard out to quell student uprisings on the Berkeley campus, and Mario Savio was told to shut up. Not that I much sympathized with the so-called Free Speech Movement. I loved what John Steinbeck, the pater-familis of the true California had to say about it, "I'm not sure what they mean by free speech; let's just hope that if they get it they grant it to the rest of us." Anyway, I think it is a perfect time to bring this great novel of California history, politics, and social satire back into print. If you haven't read it, read it. If you have, read it again and pray for Rosemary's Baby.
Rating: 4
Summary: Calif. history they don't teach in school
Comment: A friend recently turned me on to this book. I was amazed at how much of California history is left out of the texts they give you in grade school. I was born about the time Mr. Gentry wrote this book and it's an amazing insight into my home state's history up to the time of my birth. Irreverent, well written, just an all around good read.
I'd love him to do an updated version.
Rating: 4
Summary: Historical / Fiction of the State of California
Comment: The fisrt three quarters of the book is a historical insight to the State of California and what makes it so special and unique. It offers a look into the Reagan political era. The remainder of the book is a "what if". What if California didn't exist?
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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