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The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

12 reviews

2todd2todd's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book has helped a lot of people to realize the follies in the U.S. environmental landscape and created a generation of environmentalists when it first came out. It's adventurous, crude, and doesn't beat around the bush on the characters issues and our governments in our environmental stewardship. Reading it in today's landscape there is still a lot to learn from the explicitness and expressiveness of the characters despite the Deus ex machina.

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throwback682's review against another edition

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adventurous

Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I liked a lot of things about this book (interesting prose with some fantastic lines, a thrilling and inspiring plot) but the sexism and anti indigenous racism overshadowed everything. Also if I had to hear that audiobook narrator say “pinyon pine” one more time I was going to jump off the Glen Canyon Dam.

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mcwarden's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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knightwoods2's review against another edition

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Couldn't get past the constant racism from one of the main characters. Pretty sure i'm supposed to support the main character in most books so why bother?

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libbyleeereads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Going into this book I think I expected an inspiring environmental activism book that dealt with water issues in the American Southwest. I came to find that it was about extremist environmental activists who were crass, racist, sexist, and extremely hypocritical. I kept looking for the purpose of the characters being so difficult to relate to but I could not figure it out. The descriptions of the west are interesting and unique with similarly interesting chase scenes but this was not enough to make the book worth reading in all honesty.

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laura_nel13's review against another edition

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adventurous funny reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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readingbrb's review

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adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

1.5

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leahclayton's review against another edition

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the misogyny, racism, and overall arrogance meant i couldn’t get past ch. 2

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varo's review against another edition

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Abbey manages to be racist and sexist in the first handful of pages and it only gets worse from there. Additionally, the prose is so purple, I'm surprised it hasn't been taken for a medical exam

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kieranyes's review against another edition

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adventurous funny inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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