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Summary: Wow!
Review: Mesmerizing! Only The Triumph and the Glory can match it. Get yourself a copy at once and read it!
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Summary: Could not put it down!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. I will probably remember it as one of my favorites... and I highly recommend it. The development of characters is amazing, and the detail in which Berendt describes their lives is engrossing. Like I said, I could not put it down. I read the book in two days.
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Summary: what a book this was!!!
Review: This was quite a book. I loved the characters- they gave the book a certain air of quirkyness (a word I am sure does not exist, but it will do to describe my feelings for the time being). You are introduced to one amazing character, and just as you are beginning to get over the effect they have played on you, the author then introduces you to yet another amazing person who will draw your attention. The author, John Berendt, had this unique way of grabbing my attention span and holding it up in midair. A favorite character I had was the Lady Chablis- a very interesting, attention grabbing, stunning character whom the author creatively wove into the book and it's plot, all the characters were actually woven into the plot to give a sense of Savannian society.
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Summary: I enjoyed this narrative
Review: This is an excellent narrative about the curious and secretive world of Savannah. However, if you don't enjoy reading indepth description, then pass this over. This is a piece of non-fiction, and the action of the plot is secondary to what it tells about Savannah. It functions mainly to give us a picture of Savannah through vivid descriptions of both the atmosphere and the peolple who inhabit it.
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Summary: Entertaining and Hillarious!
Review: If you want a good, semi-fictional book... try this one! Everyone that I loaned this book to loved it from cover to cover! But beware... the movie stinks!
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Summary: delicious!
Review: one of those books you become totally engrossed in. you don't want to put it down but don't want to rush either... you swirl it on your tongue rather than gulp it down. first i read "midnight..," then went to savannah and was lucky to catch the outrageous chablis performing at club one. i actually saw that diminutive woman (yes, woman) put a drunk, rowdy biker type in his place with a wave of her dainty hand. no wonder john berendt was impressed. read the book. go to savannah. say a prayer thanking the lord for gracing us with the odd and the quirky. the world would be a sad place without its chablis and books like "midnight..."
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Summary: I absolutely loved this book!
Review: Only "Stones from the River" and "The Triumph and the Glory" have moved me as much as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. There was never a dull moment, believe me. What an experience!
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Summary: Spellbinding! I loved it!!!
Review: I had resisted reading this book because it was a "bestseller." Usually bestsellers bore me. Although many people I know had read it and enjoyed it, I still resisted until an article in the NY TIMES recently sparked my interest. The article was about how Mercer House in Savannah is up for sale, reportedly for almost $9 million. I ordered the book from Amazon, and I haven't read a book which isn't a biography or history in a long time that I enjoyed as much as this one. Berendt is a masterful storyteller, the characters literally jump off the page and shake your hand! When you think you've just met the most outrageous character, along comes another one! I absolutely could not put it down, and now I want to go to Savannah. Recommend highly.
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Summary: An Excellent Book -- Read it rather than renting the movie!
Review: John Berendt's wonderful book is a true paean to the Old South, its bright and dark aspects. He observes them as only the most perspicacious outsider can do (rather in the way John Patick Shanley was so perceptive about Italian Americans in "Moonstruck"). As a Southerner myself I can attest to the truth of his vision. The characters are wonderful indeed, like those of Tom Robbins, but are real. The film version whitewashed the book to an annoying extent (giving the narrator/author a "nice" heterosexual relationship as a sop to the masses). But Spacey was excellent, and The Lady Chablis was (and is) The Incomparable. Even if the screen adaptation made her into a sort of Mae West in a hoop skirt clone. Her dignity and carriage still came through. BUT READ THE BOOK, which has a richness few films could approach, and is paced like life on a sultry Southern afternoon.
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Summary: At mospheric and quirky
Review: There are two good reasons to read this wonderful book,The Lady Chablis,and Minerva. Watch out for that scene when THe Lady crashes the snobby and uppity black ball! HA! But,don't you feel sorry for Kelso,after awhile, surrounded by all these weirdos? Ha,especially Joe,the illicit lawyer?
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