California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Paperback
Lynn D. reviewed 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!