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Wild Oats
Easygoing but chronically uneasy, college freshman Billy Williams encounters the cool beauty who deflowered him and impulsively decides to move to California with the very pregnant Zizi and work as a farmhand
324 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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April 11, 2008
Read this during my college dropout year ('81ish). Another Holden Caulfieldesque coming of age novel. Good book, and notable in that its author was eventually discredited for plagiarizing some passages in it.
March 5, 2016
The main character, Billy, in this 1971 college-based novel, has a lot on his mind. He is an introspective and imaginative main character. Some of the things that go on in his head definitely are humorous!
When I was 3/4s of the way through the book I still didn't see any 'wild oats' being sown. So while this book wasn't what I expected, it was still an enjoyable read.
I got the symbolism of the spider at the end. Yeah me!
When I was 3/4s of the way through the book I still didn't see any 'wild oats' being sown. So while this book wasn't what I expected, it was still an enjoyable read.
I got the symbolism of the spider at the end. Yeah me!
February 1, 2010
I read this book a long time ago. I wonder what the author is up to now? One of my favorite books, very funny.
November 3, 2012
read this a long time ago and really enjoyed it. Have searched for it for a long time as I would love to re-read it.
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