Review: Wonderfully ironic view of Eureka & the #1 cash crop in California
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2012
I live in N. California. My son went to Humboldt University..a spit away from Eureka.If you haven't been up here, you might not know that kids come up here to go to college, first time away from home, and start wearing tie dye, woven shorts and birkenstocks. Within a week, they are stumping for the legalization of Hemp.They mean cannabis, of course, but they say hemp. 4 years later, with an education they head for Silicon Valley for the big tech money..and have forgotten about Hemp.This wonderful book takes a look at the rapidly changing technology (Gizmos) and of course Nile.com...and extrapolates the end of Dead Tree Books, therefore the end of bookstores.An 'out of it' couple go to Eureka to claim a bookstore the husband's Uncle Sy left him in a hard to find will.  This couple may as well have lived on the moon..they have missed the eccentricity of San Francisco which is not far from where they were living. Protected by their condo walls and high end jobs, they have no idea of any other way of life.I won't give away the plot.  If you don't know that marijuana is California's largest cash crop, and Humboldt county the largest growing area, and that getting a medical card here to buy legally grown pot takes 5 minutes, you may not 'get' this book.  Every now and then our very own state leaders try to decide if marijuana should be legalized to pay off the state debt.  So far, it hasn't happened.The couple learns that the falling apart bookstore is making a million plus $ a year, and give up plans to go back to their feathered nest in San Jose.  Greedy?  Well who wouldn't be?  They begin living out of the cash register and never see what is really going on.The rest of the story is in the book.Don't let your sensibilities decide..OMG this is about POT! and not read it..this is one great book.It is about so much more.It is funny and semi-true and there are some delicious lines in the book that I wish I had thought of saying.I will keep this book in my Kindle (irony again) and re-read it.GREAT BOOK!!!!!