Whims Vices D Thrush 9781512028867 Books
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"I cannot put into words how much I enjoyed reading this book." Claire103
Whims Vices D Thrush 9781512028867 Books
Whims and Vices is an insightful, sweet, complex story of friendship and love. D. Thrush, tells it in the voice of Max, a college age kid in the early 70s who doesn’t need much in the way of material things, but does require a steady supply of alcohol, free-love, occasional drugs, and friendship. He meets a bartender gal named Molly and she tells him he can stay at her place. What she doesn’t know is that Max’s best friend Sam is one of the all time charmers of the world, a guy who can pretty much seduce anyone with a simple smile. Sam just assumes that he can move in with Max and Molly, and he does. Sam cooks; Molly works and takes care of the guys; while Max worries endlessly about everything.D. shows remarkable insight into the complexities of the male mind, especially our deepest darkest fears, and our affection for - dependence on - and yet constant need escape from commitments to the opposite sex. She understands male friendships too and the honor code that comes with even the darkest of them. D. gives Max a resilience that turns out to be one of his greatest strengths. I’ll admit that I was very much involved in the story and as worried as Max about all the dangers and possibilities that came with each new day. The book is an accurate picture of the way things were in the seventies, but more than that it’s a chance for readers to develop real friendships with some complex and intriguing characters that they will really care about. I sure hope there will be a sequel.
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Whims Vices D Thrush 9781512028867 Books Reviews
This is a very well written novel, which deals with some difficult subject matters – drugs, alcoholism, polygamy and infidelity, for example – without needing to sensationalize or romanticize them. The author keeps a very real and authentic flavour to both these issues and the 1970s, where the majority of the story takes place.
I struggled with the main protagonist, Max, at first. His insecurities and attitude to life don’t inspire sympathy to his many self-made problems, but they provide a great counterpoint to his soul mates Sam and Molly and their extended network of friends, musicians and dealers.
The pace of the story is constant, neither speeding up nor slowing down, but gently taking the reader through Max’s first person life struggles – his whims and his vices. It’s one of those stories where, when you’re not reading it, you’re wondering what’s happening in their world and wanting to get back to it – always a measure of a good book.
Told from the point of view of Max, this is a lovely story depicting his loves and his losses over several decades beginning in the peace and love and drug era of the early seventies. Max is trying to find himself and goes through a series of relationships that manage to break his heart and invariably have the result of compounding his confusion. The backdrop of the seventies would seem to be both a hindrance and a help to anyone that was trying to find the meaning of life and of themselves; the free availability of drugs an aid to those seeking expanded consciousness but a trap for those who succumbed to their addictions. This is a story told with care and affection for each of the three main characters and I fell in love with each of them.
I started reading this and wasn't sure who was talking in the first chapter and where they were going with the story so I sure didn't expect what happened later. After a short time, I couldn't put the book down. When I did succeed in putting it down briefly to go eat or something, I was thinking about the characters and needing to know what was going to happen next. Before bed, I did that thing where you tell yourself, "just one more chapter, then I'll go to sleep." But then I ended up finishing the book and was dismayed to have reached the end.
When a book makes me put off other things, and stay up way later than I should before work the next day, I consider it to have done its job well. I'm really looking forward to the sequel the author hints at after the end.
It's a first-person narrative that takes you back to the early 70's. Max has two best friends, Sam and Molly, who loves very much. They have a great friendship until Sam and Molly hook up. The friendship is unaffected by this pairing off until one day Sam just takes off. Then everything changes between all of them.
I cannot put into words how much I enjoyed reading this book. I was completely immersed in the story and loved all three characters equally. It’s very rare to come across a book that captures the atmosphere of an era so perfectly and somehow manages to bottle the very essence of youth to serve it to the reader as if it was the most natural thing to do. It left me with a longing for a carefree life I never had but could have, had I grown up in a different environment. I am about to start on the sequel – the author has put the bar high with this book and I hope the second one just flows from the first.
This book is not something I usually read, but the synopsis caught my interest and once I started I couldn't put it down. I loved the energy and friendship between the main characters (even the times I wanted to grab them and say "what are you doing!?!). They genuinely loved each other and you can see it in some of their interactions. There's a lot of struggle in this book. Struggles with drugs, drinking, infidelity, etc...but there's also the good parts in it too. (And no, I'm not going to tell you the good parts. You'll have to read it for yourself to find out.) This book is pretty much every kid out there who has ever struggled to find themselves while dealing with life. They either just want to party for a while, or they don't know what they want or how to get there. The journey is hard, but the outcome is usually the best.
An amazing and amusing look back on our fav decade!
Whims and Vices is an insightful, sweet, complex story of friendship and love. D. Thrush, tells it in the voice of Max, a college age kid in the early 70s who doesn’t need much in the way of material things, but does require a steady supply of alcohol, free-love, occasional drugs, and friendship. He meets a bartender gal named Molly and she tells him he can stay at her place. What she doesn’t know is that Max’s best friend Sam is one of the all time charmers of the world, a guy who can pretty much seduce anyone with a simple smile. Sam just assumes that he can move in with Max and Molly, and he does. Sam cooks; Molly works and takes care of the guys; while Max worries endlessly about everything.
D. shows remarkable insight into the complexities of the male mind, especially our deepest darkest fears, and our affection for - dependence on - and yet constant need escape from commitments to the opposite sex. She understands male friendships too and the honor code that comes with even the darkest of them. D. gives Max a resilience that turns out to be one of his greatest strengths. I’ll admit that I was very much involved in the story and as worried as Max about all the dangers and possibilities that came with each new day. The book is an accurate picture of the way things were in the seventies, but more than that it’s a chance for readers to develop real friendships with some complex and intriguing characters that they will really care about. I sure hope there will be a sequel.
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