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Summary: Already making the rounds
Review: I just finished reading this book and I absolutely loved it! You never knew what was going to happen next. What made it even more enjoyable was the fact that I live in the same town where the story takes place. I do have to admit, at some points the story became a little bizarre, but maybe that's what made it so captivating. Great story!!!
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Summary: what a great book
Review: I picked this up because I enjoyed Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil. Like other reviewers, I was put off by the first chapter, but kept on reading. I just finished it, and have to say it is one of the best books I have read in a while! Huston didn't try to put a p.c. spin on events, even though his mother was ahead of her times in regards to racial equality and women's rights. He told his story and included all his warts. The ending did seem a little rushed, but the epilogue made up for it. I know there are people who say there is no way this can all be true, but who cares? Probably every family has stories that are too strange to be true, but we listen to them and want to believe them anyway.
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Summary: wonderful read
Review: I was at the book store, five minuets to closing, and i saw the title of this book and grabbed it in hopes that i did not choose a bad book. I have read books before, but never really got into them. After i started reading this book i could not put it down. The stories were wonderful, and the fun never stops, there were sad parts, funny parts, the whole book was great. it's the book that triggered me to read more often. I JUST finished it, and will read it again, i have my family reading it, i'll give it to my kids when they are old enough. My uncle lives where it took place, and i'm going to look for where the farm was and all the land marks, and the graves of the Curtiss family, if you read the book they talk alot about the graves. It's the best book i think i shall ever read. Highly recommend it.
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Summary: 500 Stars & more, miss this book and you've lost it all
Review: I've spent most of the day reading this fabulous (and I mean that literally for once) book which is wondrously readable; it ain't just finest kind, it's beyond that. Mega superb, blast off your socks! Rumor has it the book was originally written as a memoir; wow, that really knocks off socks! Memoir, novel, whatever, it's finest kind of reading bar none. I am talking the kind of reading that holds you glued to the chair and your fingers flipping pages. There's such a conflagration of action and compassion in this book, the reader doesn't know where to turn, except for MORE of the book. Horse lovers will love this book, as will farm lovers; historians will have a veritable ball; students of political science will be enthralled; religious enthusiasts will have grist; as will cooks who love to cook and can; weavers and seamtresses who adore their art; orchard (especially apple) aficionados will be thrilled. I swear, everything in this book is up someone's/everyone's alley at least thrice or more. Finest kind, indeed.
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: Rarely do I find a book that caught my intrest like this one did!
Based on the true story of Curtiss (who is believed to be a direct decendent of John Wilkes Booth), the book is filled with everything that makes for good reading...love, hate, sex, and murder. I don't want to give anything away, I want everyone to read this great book.
In a review of the book by Ann Patterson (Spartanburg Herald-Journal) she asks in an interview with Curtiss, "How does it feel to have written the story that "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" wanted to be?". And I agree, it is better!!
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Summary: Southern sin
Review: Supposedly based on a true story from the life of the author growing up in West Virginia. As I was reading this I was reminded of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" as it is a story that is too good to be true. It is hard to believe that this isn't entirely a piece of fiction but it is based on events that took place in 1928-33. I have a hard time believing that the author's family got away with everything the author claims they did. (I do believe the stories regarding the Klan.) This is a great story with murder, suicide and insanity that wraps you into the life of the characters (if you read it with a grain of salt).
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Summary: wonderful read
Review: Terrific book, a Southern Gothic family story that reminded me of Prince of Tides, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, To Kill a Mockingbird....a fun, moving story.
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Summary: A Great Read
Review: This was a great Southern gothic read, audacious, full of the murder and mayhem that the description promises. What I've found most intriguing is the fact that Curtiss changed many, but not all, details about the people and events described, because now I'm curious to know what parts are real, and for those for which he took creative license, what the real details were. Figuring out the real story would be one great mystery to solve! One thing I know for sure: Booklist's review is dead wrong on one account: it states that Stanely became the famous opera singer Stella Roman. Not true. Curtiss said in an interview with Wild Child Publishing that Stanley's real female name was NOT Stella, and that in real life she became a country-western singer. I could only imagine how they came to that conclusion. Now, if I could only figure out the rest....
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Summary: Is it really true?
Review: This was such a sensational story! Over and over again I kept saying "this can't be true!" I laughed many times, my jaw hung open for many pages in disbelief and I almost cried at the end. I was so fascinated with the entire Curtiss tale that I was ready to buy a plane ticket to West Virginia to see where it all took place. I don't want to give anything away, just read this book! Very emotional page turner. You will not regret it. My thanks to the author for such a wonderful tale!
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