Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

by Douglas Crichton, Michael Crichton, Michael Douglas

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039442168X
• ISBN13: 9780394421681
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Favorite

Love this book. It is NOT Chrichton's usual, that's for sure. It tells more truth about drug culture in the 60's than most scholarly tomes.

A Classic

What a fun read. So much less pompous than the rest of Michael Crichton stuff with a real feel for the 1960's drug scene. I find myself quoting a line from the book repeatedly. There is a scene where the main character goes to his friends room and the girlfriend wearing only a robe, crosses her legs giving him a long slow shot. "Nothing offered," the character says, "just letting you know it's all there."

You holding NARC PLATES?

Michael's first (with his brother) venture into satire. How is your scat dropping? A bit diff than E.R. I'd say. Or Sphere, or 5 patients, or ??

An obscure classic...

This book is one of those rare ones that I've reread many times over the years, for its madcap descriptions that capture a period and place that I was on the edge of -- but close enough to smell the authenticity of the writing. Of course, the plot isn't quite real, but just enough to keep you on the edge. Another thing I like about this is that it's so different from Michael Crichton's later work, very fresh and genuine, yet still wise and slightly self-mocking.

Hard-to-Find

Dealing is a very rare book. Michael Crichton wrote it with his brother Douglas. It is a far cry from any other Crichton novel, seeming to take a sarcastic look at the way things work out. It is a rare and interesting addition to a Crichton fan's collection.