The Road to Wellville

It was alright! A bit too long for what it was...I found it dragging a bit. I did like the fictionalization of what it must have been like at the sanitorium with Dr. Kellogg, it seemed like it could have been true.

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 otherwise unlikeable, Boyle (as he always does) finds the humanity behind the characters, which is one of the things that makes his novels so enjoyable.

If the concept of multiple daily enemas makes you squeamish, avoid this book like, well, an enema. Otherwise, I highly recommend it!