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  <title><![CDATA[The Road to Wellville]]></title>
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  <default-description>The hilarious account of Dr John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter. The author talks about Kellogg's profligate, degenerate and opportunistic son and the birth of America's first health fanatics.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1994</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Road to Wellville</original-title>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to admire TC Boyle, this is the forth book (after Drop City, Tortilla Curtain and Inner Circle) of his that i have read and they are all different, with different themes and time frames.<br/><br/>This is comedy gold and tells the story of the Kellog family, superbly played by Anthony Hopk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35369472">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[TC Boyle is one of my favorite authors because I simply fall in love with his sentences. The man writes such incredible sentences! The Road to Wellville is a captivating story, too, so between the brilliant sentence structure and the fascinating story line, I was spellbound until the ending. Unfortu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64039668">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You expect a certain amount of snarkiness from Boyle, and Wellville doesn't dissapoint, but I found no glee in it, as I did in Drop City, or Budding Prospects, or even Water Music. I kept thinking what a marvelous writer he is, yet how unfortunate his choice of stories and characters are. I get it t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43929430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6201411">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The librarian recommended this book, as he likes the author.  I did enjoy the book.  A lot of the story was based on loose facts.  It is fun to see how people would go to extremes to be healthy back in the days before liposuction, botox and plastic surgery.  It was an interesting read and I hear the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6201411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72026965">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those hard to rate books. It's funny and the subject and time period are surprising and compelling to me. But after a certain point, the story just stops moving forward. To stereotype wildly, this seems to happen to me often with modern fiction- I like the characters and the story, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72026965">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best comic novels of the late 20th century. The language is beautiful and precise, the characterizations rich and varied, the story a wild ride into the American stomach.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this comic masterpiece from TC Boyle, one of my favorite American writers. This time out, Boyle focuses on turn of the century American health nuts, centering on the Sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg in Battle Creek, MI. Although the main characters are largely whiny, arrogant, or ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68462620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59502165">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[T.C. Boyle has this fascination with strange people. He did a book on Kinsey, and his most recent was on that architect whose name escapes me right now. In this book, Boyle focuses on one of the Kellogg brothers (not the one who make corn flakes famous, but his brother) who has established an empire...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59502165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10808377">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Dec 21 07:00:16 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I checked out <em>The Road to Wellville</em> on somewhat of a whim. I'd seen a small part of the movie on TV a few days before &amp; it caught my interest. <br/><br/>Will &amp; Eleanor Lightbody, upper-middle class residents of a genteel New York town, spend the better part of a year at the Battle Creek Sanitarium...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10808377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2443126">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 27 09:04:46 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first TC Boyle novel and I admit that I was enchanted in the first 100 pages or so, but in the end, this book came out at about 2.5 stars for me - somewhere between OK &amp; I liked it.<br/><br/>It's a fascinating setting with a lively cast of characters and dual plot lines that intersect ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2443126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71524150">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 17 04:42:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Found a copy at Goodwill for 50c.  Was pleased to find that the book had a far less prurient emphasis than the movie (albeit I walked out during the <em>Handhabung Therapeutik</em> scene, so can't comment on the last half.) As the story is set in and around the Sanitarium of John Harvey Kellogg in 1900s Batt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71524150">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing!  This book was one of my thrift shop finds, and I started reading it and just could not finish.  I don't know how far I read--135 pages?  150 pages?  Enough to know that I was not going to finish the book, that I had no desire to proceed with it anymore.<br/><br/>So just this moment I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45867134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67860487">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun read! I had no idea about the history behind the breakfast cereal world of Kellogs, Post etc. Kellog had a sort of &quot;re-hab&quot; in Michigan for wealthy, unhappy people. This book follows the stories of several of the residents, and a sub plot details the scandalous world of the breakfast c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67860487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59727049">
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 07:54:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not finish this book.  I struggled through the first 100 or so pages and then a friend enlightened me and made me realize I waste my time sticking with books I don't enjoy. &quot;There are too many books out there to read to waste time on ones you don't like.&quot; From now on, if I don't li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59727049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59206443">
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't feel sympathetic with any of the characters in this implausible yet predictable novel that takes place in Battle Creek at Dr.Kellogg's health spa.  Actually, I felt sympathetic with Will for his severe indigestion problem because I have been having acid reflux myself, but his story and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59206443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About the breakfast food craze of the early 1900's in Battle Creek, Michigan [I was there and went through the Kellogg's plant:], and the charlatans it attracted.  Central is a sanitarium where &quot;Dr. Kellogg&quot; practiced vegetarianism and 5 daily enemas on its patients.  The author used sarca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64577926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since reading Drop City, I've been meaning to read more Boyle. Wellville couldn't be more different -- and clearly, I loved it.<br/><br/>Satire that never feels like it, Wellville explores the cereal and sanitarium phase of the early 20th century. It's laugh-out-loud funny without every seeming li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28345248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Done to a turn, like a Porterhouse steak, grilled to a perfect medium rare. Or should I say: &quot;like a Protose Pattie perfectly congealed.&quot;  This is an excellent, well-written, funny novel about Kellogg and Battle Creek in its heyday.  An incredible amount of research must have been undertak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29558849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant novel about, of all things, the health food industry in Battle Creek, Michigan, at the turn of the century. Really great characters, crazy plot twists, and a lot of fun to read. I've belatedly become a huge fan of T.C. Boyle.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a novel based on the health resort-sanitarium run by William Kellogg, I believe, in Battle Creek. Sounds dubious, I know, but the appeal of the book is in depicting vividly the kind of people -- women with physical and emotional ailments, breakfast health food entrepreneurs and hustlers of a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5479052">more...</a>]]></body>
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