Drop City - okay, let's get this over with. i've read two or three books since this one, so, you know, it fades. despite the nekkid people on the cover, it's not replete with drug-induced hippie group-sex orgies. i'm sorry, but no.
i was actually pretty riveted by this book while i was reading it, despite its length. but the further away from it i get the less i think of it. i'm disappointed in the two novels i've read which were nominated for the National Book Critics' Award. how hard are they looking?
the story, in a small (maybe filbert) nutshell: Drop City is a late 1960's/1970 commune in northern CA, where things are becoming less than serendipitous. too many people, too little plumbing, woods filling up with shit. the health department is evicting them from the ranch where the commune is located, bulldozers are on their way to knock down the raggedy collection of buildings on the property.
(continues in Part 3)
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