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Title: cocoa beans by Michael J. Hughes ISBN: 0-7388-2717-7 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (12 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Very Entertaining Story
Comment: Mike Hughes has written a great story for anyone who enjoys fiction. While reading Cocoa Beans I found myself making comparisons to another great story about a young man's coming of age in The Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger gave us Holden Caulfield in 1951 and Michael J. Hughes gave us Dave Purenut in the year 2000. Thanks to both of them. I won't summarize the story here but will tell you that while I was reading the book late into the night, I found myself laughing out loud at situations the main character Dave, a.k.a. Crazy, got himself into. My spouse didn't enjoy my outbursts, but I'm encouraging her to give Cocoa Beans a read and am sure she will have the last laugh. I also did not want the book to end. The author tells this story using what I think are a great combination of qualities in a work of fiction -- a great sense of humor, given to some genuinely unique and interesting characters, and uses his good storytelling ability. Mike Hughes may be a new author, but all great authors start somewhere. Try Cocoa Beans. I enjoyed it tremendously and think you will too.

Rating: 4
Summary: Nothing ventured - nothing gained
Comment: The author, Micheal Hughes, does an admirable job weaving a tale of triumph over fear and self doubt in a setting where young men are restrained in a system of endless rules and oppression by their charges. Underlying the main character's passage from boy to man is a story of a corporate good deed gone haywire. Hughes does a fine job of intertwining the two into a light and funny story about life at Hershey Home for Boys. Anyone who has unwrapped the foil from a Hershey's Kiss will enjoy unwrapping the wit and humor in this book. I highly recommend it to young and old alike. It will inspire the young and cause those of an older age to reflect on their own passages into adulthood. The author has done a fine job on this, his first novel. I will look forward to his future works.

Rating: 5
Summary: It Ain't Totally Fiction!
Comment: I grew up in Hershey at the same time Michael was at the Milton Hershey School, and took a trip back in time to be with him during this book. There is more truth to fiction here--the events are based on fact, and the characters, from the youngest to the oldest are totally believable. Those of us going to public school hated the "cows", mostly because, as an all boys school, they competed for the girls! Michael shows they were human and completely normal (but read the book to find out how we knew they were "cows" without any trouble at all!), with the same hopes, dreams, and desires to stir up trouble that we had in high school.
This book took me back to a simpler time, and I enjoyed the trip. If you want to know what it was like to grow up in the idyllic town of Hershey in 1970, get this book!