Reviews for The Sand Crabs

The average rating for The Sand Crabs based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-12 00:00:00 D D Df To say this is a bit of light reading would be an understatement. It is not just a comedy, it is a farce. Many people are familiar with the story because of the 1985 movie with Richard Pryor. Other than the concept, they are hardly recognizable as being related, and this is one of the few instances where the movie is better than the book. Actually there have been several movies and a stage play adapted from this book. The concept, you may recall, is that Brewster has inherited a million dollars from his grandfather. Shortly thereafter a rich uncle, one who hated Brewster's grandfather, dies and leaves Brewster a fortune of 7 million dollars. But there is a condition; Brewster must first divest himself of the million inherited from his grandfather, and do it within a year to receive the fortune from his uncle. The story surrounding the spending of the million is outrageous and beyond believable. One other thing that bothered me about the book was it's disparagement of several groups of people including Africans, Italians, Middle Easterners, almost any non-white. There are several anecdotes throughout the book that would be considered not politically correct today. This book was published in 1902 and it's not uncommon to find this type of thing in some American literature from that time. If you pass on reading this one you won't miss much.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-04 00:00:00 Terry Geize A little light reading from the Comedy section of the Guardian 1000 Books list. With a helping of the myopic cultural disparagement which was so often present in those times. Otherwise, the story was fairly frothy and fun. Although, it does give form to the adage, "Be careful what you wish for."