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Summary: A book that is parrell to, "In Cold Blood."
Review: A great exciting account of how Savannah is it's own country. The discribtions of each charactor are the best I have ever read and the suttle story never looses one's interest.
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Summary: Why do they say it's about a crime?
Review: The only Crime is paying money for this book. I saw a show on TV about it and thought the book would be great....wrong. If you think this book is about the crime of murder..think again. It is just about all the different people that the author met in Savannah. If I'm reading a true story about a murder I want to meet the people that are involved in it...not the people the author meets jogging down the street or eating breakfast with. The author should of named it "Unusual People I Met While In Savannah." Don't waste your money!
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Summary: Berendt gives character to his characters
Review: I found the entire novel fascinating, and cannot wait until I have a chance to personally visit this part of the country. What stood out most dramatically, however, were the people; if I do get to take my trip, I only hope I can meet the characters who jump off the page and into your mind. Charles Dickens would have loved to people his books with the abundance of quirky, genuine, fascinating individuals to whom Berendt introduces us. He skillfully weaves his story line(s) throughout the novel, never losing sight of the fact that it is the people who move the reader and who keep one turning pages. I heartily recommend it to those who enjoy sitting down and being transported into a place where tradition lives, and where uniqueness in personality seems to abound.
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Summary: Humor, suspense,local color,-what more??
Review: This book has lines that made me laugh out loud. Great plot, wacky habits of the rich and not so famous, sex, humor - what more could you want?? It's a book I read twice and will certainly read again. It's such a great read it's impossible not to read it rapidly the first time - you can't wait for the end. I'm waiting for his next one.
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Summary: BORING
Review: Wow, I had to have radar to find the plot, no, it was a compass. When it did emerge, my insomnia was cured, but quickly re-occured. This book is just another slow developing, steamy (maybe) wandering tome trying to explain the South. Maybe they think the Civil War is still going on.
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Summary: An entertaining and well-written book
Review: There is no such a thing as a book everyone likes, so you have to expect to see some people give this book bad ratings. But to me, it seems almost impossible to deny that this is a masterpiece. The book is so entertaining that you are always waiting to go back and reading. If you're reading these reviews because you don't know whether to buy this book, just go ahead and buy it. Of course it is easy to criticize any book if you set your mind to do it. But instead, just relax and prepare to read one of the most engaging books. Up there in a previous review someone wrote that anyone who's lived in a small southern town could have written this novel. I'd like to see them try.
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Summary: A NICE PLACE TO LIVE BUT WHO WOULD WANT TO VISIT...
Review: Heretics unite! You have only your money to lose. So, there i am losing weight at the Rice Diet, struggling with my food sobriety, gasping for some intellectual stimulation, when I see a full page ad in the NY Times in which Random House congratulates itself, for having sired the book which has had the longest continuous run on its best Seller List - 187 weeks!! So, get to Borders, plunk down $20., and return to the Rice House (Durham, NC). In about three minutes I realize that I have finally found something more boring than eating rice! But how can that be? 187 weeks? No way, it must be ketosis. So i swallow my rice and my pride and resume, but it plods and plods and i wait and wait, but nothing happens, characters are visualized but I feel no empathy, no identification, no disgust, not even mild salsa-like sensations. Nothing. Surely it is I who have made a mis-judgment. Tomorrow is another day. More rice. More boredom. Morning TM and Yoga have more stick-to-the-ribs pizzazz than this thing. But I finish it, barely; and wonder, what is the fuss about? This experience has happened only once before, when I read the novel, Stones for Ibara(?) which had been given the National Book Award for Fiction. I just don't get it. And I like Seinfeld!
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Summary: Delightful variety....
Review: Read this book to be transported to another place entirely. I found it impossible to put this book down, partly because I was laughing so hard and partly because I was learning so much. At first I felt cheated because it wasn't a true story, but then I just fell in love with the narrative and no longer cared. Read this book if you're going on vacation or taking a long plane ride. The characters in this book are so well spelled out and so colorful. You find yourself wanting to take a trip to Savannah. A fine book.
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Summary: Midnight in the garden is a mesmerizing southern whodunit.
Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a mesmerizing southern murder mystery--a whodunit with a mint julip.As the narrator says this is"Gone with the Wind on mescaline." Really, it's much, much more. This is a study of a dying subculture: the Old South and its gentility. Afterall, where else could you find dragqueens, male homosexual hustlers, southern aristocracy,and voodoo conjurers? This cultural gumbo is mixed with irony and humor. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a mesmerizing southern whodunit with grits and mint juleps.
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Summary: Quite an enjoyable read!
Review: I enjoyed reading this book very much--being a "Low-Country" native myself, I love reading about familiar places. Knowing that it was a true story made it even more intriguing!
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