Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chilgren was being held for disorderly conduct, but the Drug Enforcement Administration had a warrant out for Shimek on conspiracy to manufacture and produce marijuana...
...dysfunctional writers who hurtle through the obstaclecourse plot of Wonder Boys. Grady Tripp, who narrates the novel, has produced no new books in the seven years that he has taught creative writing at a small Pittsburgh college. Instead, he spends his time smoking huge amounts of marijuana and churning out thousands of pages of his own novel, also called Wonder Boys, which he knows he will never finish. James Leer, one of Grady's students, is twenty years younger but no less screwed up. An awkward loner and closeted homosexual, James has an obsession with Hollywood suicides that nearly leads...
...probably the least successful element of what is essentially a comic story. Chabon's strength is his witty, graceful, delicately absurd style, and his attempt to turn his comic creations into bearers of a secret curse does not come off. Grady remains a Rabelaisian "minotaur," too devoted to sex, marijuana and adventure ever to seem suicidal; even James is more quirky than disturbed...
Unfortunately, much of the prose suffers from an acute seventies tinge. Describing the typical user's reaction, Grinspoon writes. marijuana "heightens (or so they assert) capacity to feel, to appreciate, to perceive, AND TO SHARE." The Brady undertones elude poor Grinspoon, but the subtext of 70s culture adds to the book's entertainment value. This increases with the level of THC in your system...
...were to hold out a sign saying 'Spare change for marijuana,' all the people who smoke pot would give me money," Juan says. "If I were to hold out a sign saying 'Donations for a six pack,' all the people who drink beerwould give money...