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Title	:	The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang #1)
Author	:	Edward Abbey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 421 pages
Published	:	December 12th 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Environment. Nature. Classics. Humor. Politics. Novels

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang #1) Paperback | Pages: 421 pages

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Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert.

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Original Title:	The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
ISBN:	0061129763 (ISBN13: 9780061129766)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Monkey Wrench Gang #1
Characters:	George W. Hayduke
Setting:	Arizona Desert(United States)

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Genteel Doc Sarvis, solid and faithful (though patently unfaithful in marriage) Seldom Seen Smith, wild George Hayduke and breathtakingly pretty if directionless Bonnie Abbzug make an unlikely band of eco-activists/bandits with questionable motives in this book perhaps loosely based on an actual group of bandits running around blowing up things they thought ecologically unsound in the 1970s.Despite lots of action-packed sequences, this book really took me forever to get through. I started it in

A modern day classic and still capable of stirring up people on both sides of the issue. Provocative,descriptive,sarcastic, humorous, engrossing and angry are just a few of the words that come to mind when describing Edward Abbey's most well known book. I do not consider myself a radical or hardcore environmentalist. I'm too much a product of the modern era for that. I ,and those I love, have benefited from the modern world and "evil" technology (modern medicine, computers and so on). However I

OK I'll try not to say what other reviewers have said. First of all, I loved the drama, the ideas, the characters, but I didn't buy the ending at all so I deducted a star. The other star was deducted because of the at times clunky writing and I think the character's histories merited further discussion. First what I liked: The plot is riveting, to the point of agonizing. You just want them to call it quits and save themselves! It can get a little bogged down in technical descriptions.

pretty disappointed by this actually. like, the writing was good and I liked the style a lot, and I feel like I should have liked this (environmental vigilantes! exciting chase scenes!) but honestly I couldn't get past the racism and sexism. edward abbey is like the kind of anarchist white dudebro who would unironically say that fight club is their favorite movie. I think I would have liked this a lot more too if the characters weren't all terrible (and racist). the only girl character was

This book is a great American Classic. It is impossible to fully describe its influence.I love reading the comments about Abbey. He just pissed off everybody. This was when the so-called "environmental" movement in this country had balls and snark. Now, it's pot-lucks and social events, getting anything done as an afterthought. It's "being professional"=lobotomy. Ed walked the land and knew the land. He knew the critters like they were his friends. He read the sky. He was about our AMERICAN LAND

Honestly surprised I didn't love this book. Abbey's nonfiction has long been a touchstone for me of well-crafted writing about the American west and the environment, plus I know a guy originally from New Mexico who answers to "Hayduke." So I had high expectations.I didn't love it. I didn't even like it much. Abbey's voice dominates to the point I got tired of it after a while. The gang are characters -- in the vein of calling the town drunk "a real character" -- as opposed to fully rounded

Here's where my reading practice paid off: By avoiding the hype of what others say and have said about the author, I enjoyed his art in what I can only hope is how he originally had hoped it would hit his readers. Having read Desert Solitaire and a couple of brief interviews with the man, I was still shocked by the skillful quality of literature this book represents. It is not conventional in any way, in fact the four "protagonists" are all deeply flawed in many moral dimensions, including