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Original Title:	The Road to Wellville
ISBN:	0140167188 (ISBN13: 9780140167184)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dr John Harvey Kellogg, George Kellogg, Eleanor Lightbody, Will Lightbody, Charlie Ossining, Goodloe H. Bender
Setting:	Battle Creek, Michigan(United States) Michigan(United States)

The Road to Wellville

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 5838 Users | 403 Reviews

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Title	:	The Road to Wellville
Author	:	T. Coraghessan Boyle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Humor. Novels. Literature. Contemporary

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Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.

So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives - or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in The New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "a marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."

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Remembering the failed movie based on The Road to Wellville (that I didnt see until it was on television and, even then, it was sliced up for broadcast television (Remember? Before streaming and broadband capabilities? You had to wait until someone put the film on the air.)), I dont know quite how it failed with the fabulous casting. Bridgett Fonda was the perfect image of the beautiful, wealthy, self-indulgent, and slightly frigid spouse of Matthew Broderick as the frustrated husband trying to

The Road to Wellville is a story of people in search of Organic Grace. Dr. Kellogg's followers believe they suffer from the visceral accumulation of toxic sludge brought on by years of improper diet. Since the rigors of eating were never mastered better than by the great Cleansed Colon himself, Dr. Kellogg, they follow his every command. They scour their colons, blast out their bowels, purge their way to purity--yet, despite the daily intrusions to their lower orifices', they still end up

You expect a certain amount of snarkiness from Boyle, and Wellville doesn't dissapoint, but I found no glee in it, as I did in Drop City, or Budding Prospects, or even Water Music. I kept thinking what a marvelous writer he is, yet how unfortunate his choice of stories and characters are. I get it that Kellog's sanitarium and its regimens were for the turn of the century's health nuts, and that many of its practices were misguided and downright dangerous in some cases. I get that there were

TC Boyle is one of my favorite authors because I simply fall in love with his sentences. The man writes such incredible sentences! The Road to Wellville is a captivating story, too, so between the brilliant sentence structure and the fascinating story line, I was spellbound until the ending. Unfortunately, like other TC Boyle novels I've read, the ending missed the mark for me. It seems that Boyle paints himself into a corner and then just decides that the only way out is to walk back across the

Yuck. It is rare that I abandon a book, but 100 pages into this, I couldn't force myself to read 400 more. I love T.C. Boyle but this sort of repulsed me and I hated it. Too much on bowels/colon activity, and everyone in the book seems a little gross for some reason. Just not enjoying it in general. I'm out.

TC Boyle is Brilliant as always. What I found most fascinating about this novel is it examined the beginnings of the health food movement... a crazy doctor semonizing on a specific diet and way of life and the people who follow him like sheep. It made me think about today's health craze...the things that I believe to be very healthy but in 100 years may be considered misinformed. What also interested me were the things Dr. Kellogg said were healthy, and thinking to today, what aspects of a

This fat, picaresque novel focuses on the elite but quackish sanitarium run by Dr JH Kellogg in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the early days of breakfast cereals. Kellogg was a powerful orator, a staunch vegetarian and a proponent of the kind of health fads that we'd nowadays class as alternative medicine; he also had some morbidly puritanical ideas about sex (cornflakes, famously, were originally intended to stop people masturbating on what principle, I'm not sure, unless he planned to scatter