★★★☆☆ American modern classic. In the wild wild west, hippies roam around to bomb bridges and dams, to save the environment. It’s comical and awkward. I knew it was not my cup of tea but marched on.
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
Edward Abbey, 1975
480 pages
Read 2024.11
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
It’s the 70s American wild wild west hippy “comic” – not my cup of tea.
I did expect it to be like this, and it did turn out to be like this.
And I knew I would march on to finish anyway.
3 men and 1 woman, strangers, meet and form a gang to go against the system, aiming to blow up bridges and dams to save the environment.
Maybe it’s a like those gen z warriors who vandalise the art in museums, but they are the weaker copycats, these teenagers don’t risk their lives, but here the Gang do have a rich man but are really sweating and risking.
Anyways this book, it’s more for those macho men, a lot of details of trucks and arms, and it’s that generation who just came back from Vietnam.
Very very far from myself.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Penguin Modern Classics)
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
The Monkey Wrench Gang Paperback – English edition
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