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Dealing, or The Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues by Michael Crichton, Michael Douglas

risky_oak's review

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If this book was not written by Crichton I wouldn't have read it.

It's mainly read by Crichton fans and completists.

It's about a bunch of college kids that in their boredom decide to make money by selling marijuana.

It's set in the Hippie's era between Boston and Berkeley (San Francisco) in the early 1970's.
A distance of 3,089 miles (4,971 km).

It was written by Michael Crichton together with his younger brother Douglas Crichton, hence the shared pseudonym Michael Douglas.

It became a movie in 1972 with a young John Lithgow.



Of course I bought this book as a collector rather than as a reader.

It's an out of print, rare edition book from the first era of Crichton's career. 1960's-1970's

I was lucky to find it on eBay in a very affordable price and it came to me in Cyprus all the way from Miami.

I'm glad I read it mainly because now my bookshelf will be adorned by a rare book I finally read.

captainlexington's review

4.0

The plot is sparse and the climax is weak; the inner monologue of the protagonist is what keeps this book interesting. The slang of the late '60s and early '70s is delightful, and frequently used in ways I we previously unfamiliar with - sometimes to the extent that I wondered if Michael Crichton was just too square to get it right. Not spectacular, but enjoyable.