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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Oh so very hard to rate. It's utterly hilarious, as I said at the halfway point, but it wasn't meant to be. I actually liked the writing, it's really tight, and packs an enormous amount into a fairly short book. The cultural view of 1950's america is quite entertaining, and boy do these characters have real lives: There's everything from sculpture, an inside look at a news wire operation, carpets, a fairly deep (if brief) theological discussion that manages to cover Catholicism, Luther and Calvinism in three paragraphs (no really!). Also a mixed race out of wedlock baby, a junkie military wife, a bad boy who finds redemption after literally getting kicked upside the head and then hearing a random bible verse, And a lot of alcohol. Really a lot. Oh and the predatory Lesbian (ob. caps), who is written without a single redeeming feature, unless you count that she's slim and doesn't look her age. Anyway, mark this one down as a guilty pleasure. I love these old pulp novels, and this is definitely one of the most fun to read that I've come across. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: At first it was just a lark—bribing the stewards to steal food, bribing the conductors to steal blankets, raiding the club car, becoming a trainful of drunks. But then—then they began stealing morphine, and after that they began swapping mates, and after that... Finally the lights went out. And a modern-day miracle of streamlined engineering was turned into a cage of evil, human beings become beasts, and for three days the meaning of civilization was forgotten, and carnality ruled! .No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999RatingAverage:
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