Lynn D. reviewed California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps on
"A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps, criminals, and failed dreamers, this compendium profiles 45 bizarre personalities who exemplify the Golden States well-deserved reputation for nonconformity. In the pages, Gold Rush pioneers are revealed as murderous madmen; Hollywood celebrities are shown to be drug-addled sex maniacs; early hippies are just 1950s weirdos; and even seemingly ordinary Californians have a talent for freakish, crazy, and criminal behavior. From frontier lunatic Grizzly Adams, whose head was one massive wound after multiple bear attacks, to I Love Lucy star William Frawley, a racist, misogynist, foul-mouthed drunk, and legendarily awful film director Ed Wood, California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts is a side-splitting look at the people who made California the strangest place on earth."
This was truly an amazing book --- often comical filled with useless information that often made you just want to throw up at the state of human affairs in California. I laughed and chuckled, learned things that were very interesting. I also learned things that I never needed to know and hope that I will never run into --- a truly good insight of sometimes the truly totally insane people habituating the State of California!
This was truly an amazing book --- often comical filled with useless information that often made you just want to throw up at the state of human affairs in California. I laughed and chuckled, learned things that were very interesting. I also learned things that I never needed to know and hope that I will never run into --- a truly good insight of sometimes the truly totally insane people habituating the State of California!
