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Potatoes Are Cheaper
Potatoes Are Cheaper: A Novel | Max Shulman
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A Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Its the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke. The self-declared best humpers in St. Paul, they havent quite figured out how to make their talents pay. But thats all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morriss mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry. The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morriss cousin Crip, a stay-at-home genius who sublimates his sex drive into song. Within a day, Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise. But then an Irish Catholic beauty falls under the spell of Crips verse and goes gaga over Morris. She thinks hes a Jewish-Communist revolutionary poet, and who is he to tell her otherwise? But is it happiness Morris truly wants, or money? And what will Mama Katz say?
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willaful

Ugh, so awful. A lot of his books still hold up but this is very much not one of them. I need some brain bleach.

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MrBook
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My saving a lot of money what? Cheaper is cheaper is than cheaper, you can always go cheaper...until you get to free. 😁 #LitsyHumor

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OrangeMooseReads
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Bailedbailed

Fast bail on this one. I think I may have gotten 10 minutes into it. The use of rape as a joke, NOPE!