![]() ![]() It was like reading a day in the life of your average Santa Cruzan. Whew! This one was jam-packed with minutiae of the main characters' lives (of which there were about a dozen or so.?) which was a very time-consuming process of getting the overall message of ecologically-minded living. Two stars only because I still wish this was a place for real. Go read Ecotopia and stay far away from this one. But that's about it.Ĭallenbach did no service to his vision with this novel. Some of the expositions on why the world was falling apart were interesting. Or the ridiculous and unrealistic plot devices.Īnd the amount of time dedicated to the sexual life of an 18-year-old girl? (Well, 15 or 16 when it started.) Creepy, creepy, CREEPY. I can't get over how cheesy (not in a good way) and cringe-y this book is. ![]() Dialogue has never been Callenbach's strong point.) This tries to be a more detailed blueprint of that telling, but what it really lands as is a, "uhhh.people don't work that way" eye-roller. ![]() We already had a pretty good idea from Ecotopia how the world got founded. But this book - which is supposed to discuss how Ecotopia is founded - was completely unnecessary. Ecotopia was great and beautiful and lovely and I'm still sad I can't live there. ![]()
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