Sideways
Rex Pickett
Read May-June 2008
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch
Essay written Saturnday, June 7th, 2008
You should come to expect books written by Hollywood screenwriters to be shallow and formulaic. After all, they're used to writing movies and tv shows, not novels. So that's my fault, for having standards that were too high going into this.
The fact that I know nothing about wine is irrelevant, I think. But I don't know. Maybe I missed something. Maybe I just have a hard time relating to or caring about people who spend more money on a bottle of wine than I spend on groceries for a year. Well, I could make a car payment at least on what some of those bottles of wine cost. That's California for you. I wouldn't go so far as to say upper-class Californians (is there any other class of Californian?) are out of touch with reality; let's just say their reality is considerably out of touch with mine.
This kind of book makes me hate California. John Steinbeck and Charles Bukowski make me love it again.
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