Good Books That Don't Suck: Season of The Witch by David Talbot
The full title of David Talbot’s deep dive narrative of San Francisco between the years of 1967 and 1982 is: Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love. I stumbled upon this book by pure accident and was drawn to solely because its title had me singing Donovan song in my head.
A SYNOPSIS
I am not going to beat around the bush, this book is fucking long as hell with a total of 452 pages of comprehensive details about some of the most iconic eras from The Golden City. Each chapter offers a romantically realistic portrait of exactly what was happening during those years. Talbot was diligent with how San Francisco went from an Irish Catholic city built on the morals of that bias to revolutionizing such things as gay marriage, medical marijuana, immigration sanctuary, universal health care, recycling, renewable energy, consumer safety and living wage mandates.
You know. Shit we are still fighting about nationally. Yeah. San Francisco went through ALL that fuckery in about 15 years.
Le RECOMMANDATION
So do I recommend reading this book? DEFINITELY. Do I recommend doing it over the course of a few days like I did? NO. You might lose family and friends over that. I didn’t, but you might. Don’t follow my example unless following that example is reading this book of course, Just take your time with it. My head still hurts from all the information and I read this book about 4 weeks ago. Yep.
