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Summary: Interesting; too much description; waiting for developments
Review: Story had promise but too much detail about characters and then not enough detail after story line developed; then 3 trials???!!! Was a bit diappointed after hearing so much about the book.
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Summary: Southern, small town, Savannah is rich in its life & people
Review: An absorbing word portrait of those wonderful characters we all remember. A rich tapestry of southern traditions and temperment woven around a real life incident of sudden death. The author has made the people, place and event seem truly worthy of notice. A smooth read.
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Summary: The book's overrated, but the title is a "10"
Review: I went into this book expecting a really good read. I am genuinely mystified as to how this book became a best-seller. The characters, though colorful and often humorous (even over-the-top), are feebly developed... a series of personality vignettes that wander in and out of the book, with very little to bind them cohesively into the story or to each other. Ultimately, I still didn't know any of them well by the end of the book, and frankly, didn't care. As to the murder-mystery itself, I felt Berendt did just enough homework to pass with a "C". Hugely overrated, quite unsatisfying and disappointing. A slam-bang sexy title, though...
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Summary: This book is great!
Review: I loved this book. I read it in 5 days. Couldn't put it down. Berendt did such a great job writing this book. I didn't know at first that it was a true story until after I finished it. The title was what interested me, and I'm glad I read it, and I'm telling people at the book store where I work to buy this book. It's just so great!!!
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Summary: OK for beach reading.
Review: I read this book while lying on the beach in July. I usually save my lightest reading for vacation, and this proved to be the lightest of the light. Not particularly well written, the author's intrusive narrative style bothered me. It was slow in places and tedious in others. My advice is take a pass on this one. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I understand it is pretty weak as well, so perhaps I'll save myself further torture and skip it.
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Summary: This is a Story *About* Savannah
Review: I read this book long before the hoopla (thanks to Book Soup on Sunset), so my impressions were untainted thereby. Yes, sometimes the chartacter studies play themselves out a little too languerously, but this is a major book that rates five stars. Major, because he (Berendt) has discovered a unique new setting. Major, because he has made the setting the main character, a most difficult task in literature. Major, because of the narrative method he chose. And yes, major, because it is quality literature that has become wildly popular. This is a story about Savannah, not a killing. So perhaps the subtitle needs a little fixing.
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Summary: THE BEST! WHAT A GREAT BOOK! I LOVED IT!
Review: I couldn't put this book down. The characters and story were some of the most intriguing I've read. Who would have thought non-fiction would be so completely engrossing and exciting! An easy read and a great vacation destination.
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Summary: I wish I could give it zero stars.
Review: Air-headed twaddle. Clearly this is one of those weird publishing flukes--the same phenomenon that gave us those "Chicken Soup" and "Mars and Venus" lowest-common-denominator books.Ultimately, I was sorry I slogged through to the end. Agony.
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Summary: superlative
Review: until i concluded the novel, i was under the impression this novel was a work of fiction. then i read the authors note. i was completelly stunned that such well written non-fiction existed. i highly recomend it.
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Summary: proves once agiain that the pen is mighter than the camera
Review: ok, ok, ok, so the movie is ok , but nowhere near as good as the book. once agin we are shown how the written word can fill our imaginations much more than a literial filmatic translation. DON"T read this book if you want a thriller type murder straight line mystery. It is NOT that kind of book and doesn't try to be. You need to amble through Savannah with the author at the pace of Savannah ( which is greek-island-on-a-hot-afternoon pace ie SLOW. ) If you thnik that the characters can't be real , slow down and LOOK around your own place, there are chacters like Savannah's everywhere. Perhaps not so many ,so obvious, but just you watch and listen you'll find them. Americans are eccentric to me!!!! ( I'm English) . BUT achually what I really want to know is "What happened to the Lady Chablis??Where is she now? what happened to her? .. Does anyone know? I wish her luck.
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