Really, I read all the time!

I attend two different book clubs.  I happen to be (for only three more months!) the president of one of them, and so, I feel very obligated to read the book.  Well, so I'm a little behind on the book reviews.  Here is one that I have on my mind right now:

CandyFreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond

What can I say about this book?!  First, it made me hungry for candy.  Steve Almond, a self professed candy freak, Loves his candy.  Really!  He is obsessed with finding out where the candy bars of yesteryear have gone, and if they are gone for good.  He visits several other "candy freaks" and also some candy bar factories, although not one of the big three companies, Mars, Hershey, or Nestle.  They do not allow visitors into the actual factories because of threats of espionage.  But he went to many other small family-owned factories.  It was really interesting to read about how these candy bars are made, how family businesses are kept together, how these small companies are fighting back against the big three.  I loved to hear the descriptions of how candy is made, and the descriptions of how it tastes to the author.  But this is the part that I didn't like.  The book to me is about candy manufacturing.  The author took it somewhere else when he started talking about how terrible the republicans are, and how we as a country only care about the rich, the evidence of that is how we have reacted to the terrorist attacks of 9-11.  Now how that all fits into candy manufacturing, I don't know and as such, it drove me a little crazy.

Would I recommend this book?  If you are thin, can eat all the candy you like and don't mind political diatribes in books that aren't suppose to have them, read the book.  If you are at all interested in hearing how certain candy bars are made, read the book.  If you have interest in candy of yesterday, read the book.  If you get tired of someone pushing a political agenda where it doesn't belong, don't read the book.