A review by residentrunner1_
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America by Bill Geist

5.0

I had this crazy idea, see, that mankind was evolving.

There were only a few things I knew about the Ozarks before reading this.

1. There was a lake there.

2. The Ozarks could've possibly been part of the Appalachians before the Mississippi River formed.

3. The lake is known for its crazy boaters.

Then Bill Geist came along here, laughed, and pushed all of those away and revealed what Lake of the Ozarks was like back in the 60s. Most people would be shocked at the social stuff from that era. In fact, this was before Lake Ozark was a town, and before credit cards, almost driverless cars, and believe it or not, an actually good version of AC! (Bill said the AC at Arrowhead Lodge would always be fussy, so whenever a customer came to complain about it, he and his friend, "Wheezer", would go and pretend to fix it for them and then say it was fixed.)

The parties from that era, were, hehe, a little bit improper for this era. If people tried to do that in this current decade (before or way after the pandemic), they would be arrested on the spot.

A bit goofy, and a bit of inappropriate stuff, but otherwise a really great read!

5***out of 5