 Everyone should read Tales of the City because it captures a magical time and place in San Francisco that should never be forgotten. I first read Tales of the City when I was a freshman in college. It just got me through a very long first cold snowy winter in New York. San Francisco's changed a lot and then we lost a lot of friends, a lot of our city, and we got in a whole new group of people that don't know about San Francisco in that time and place when it was more safe, more fun, more open. I almost feel like it was more sunny which is ridiculous. I think the book will make people laugh and cry and smile and everything in between. It reminds you of the way that the world should be.