GONE SOUTH

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Summary: Really enjoyed! Great story, unusal characters
Review: "Gone South" is one of the few books I keep around for a re-read when I'm out of fresh ones. It's full of entertaining and unusual characters, interesting scenery and has a great plot. It's a human based thriller - not full of 'creatures' like many of McCammon's others, but many of the humans in it aren't run of the mill by anyone's standards. Just a great book to blow a weekend with!

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Summary: somebody needed to do a review....
Review: 8 and a half actually. This book seems to have escaped many readers who are familiar with his others. It lacked the overall impact of Wolves hour and Swan Song, and was not as intense as Mine, but this novel has merits of its own. If you are a reader of Clive Barker then this may interest you. Its been years since i read it so the details are blurry, but it was a good read and well worth the time. Rob doesnt take things to the extremity of strangeness as Barker does at times, but Gone south combines interesting characters, realistic motivations, fantastical twists, and bizarre inserts. It was strange.... thats why i liked it so much...

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Summary: Very good!
Review: After Reading McCammon's "Boys Life" it took me a while to read again. There are books out there that are so good that picking up another book can only result in disappointment. I cried so hard after Boys Life I figured that I should ease back into the waters of "lessor books" with another McCammon. Gone South was perfect for the job. It is a great book but was not as good as his Boys Life to be sure, but tells a story of a Man running from a murder and being pursued by bounty hunters. (One of whom has a conjoined submissive twin growing out of his chest - a disgusting character indeed.) The other is an Elvis Impersonator named Pelvis Easley. While on the run the murderer meets a woman who is searching for a child faith healer. And then McCammon does what he does best - allows a cast of emotionally burdened characters to intertwine and dance from chapter to chapter until this book reaches its powerful climax.
So, when you are done reading Boys Life, and need to recover, Gone South is a good direction to go in.


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Summary: Never enjoyed it that much
Review: Don't get me wrong, I couldn't put this book down. But that is because McCammon's stories are so interesting. However when I finished, I thought to myself, that was just a weak plot. I'd reccomend his other stuff before this.

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Summary: Very good book!!!!!!
Review: Gone South has the action of Boy's Life and the depression of Usher's Passing!It was the second book i read by Robert McCammon.(Boy's Life was the first).I think anyone should read this for it's action and excitement!Gone South grabs you by the throat and keeps grabbing.A really good book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: A nice, good read.
Review: Gone South is a moralistic novel. About faith and redemption, and in some parts (especially concerning Flint and Eisley) prejudice. It's not up to par, to say the truth with great novels like Swan Song and Boy's Life, but then again, it's always a cumbersome task to deliver such fantastic reads like those. Yet, its an enjoyable novel, and well recommended for McCammon fans. Especially the new batch of them, like me.

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Summary: Pulp Fiction
Review: I dont want to give anything away here. . .but I can tell you that McCammon has created unbelievabe characters put in a believable story line that somehow gives credit to the characters realness. Without going into a realm of fantasy of fantasy horror how do you make a reader care about the flamboant characters right out of a bad b-movie (nothing against bad b-movies) you make them real . . . you flesh them out by giving them real emotional responces to a society that the reader can relate to or is familiar with. McCammon has done this in Gone South. Hey folks, lots of page turning action, romance, sexual tension, and bottom line its a great chase book. If you like your fiction a bit twisted, this is a great book, enjoy.

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Summary: Pulp Fiction
Review: I dont want to give anything away here. . .but I can tell you that McCammon has created unbelievabe characters put in a believable story line that somehow gives credit to the characters realness. Without going into a realm of fantasy of fantasy horror how do you make a reader care about the flamboant characters right out of a bad b-movie (nothing against bad b-movies) you make them real . . . you flesh them out by giving them real emotional responces to a society that the reader can relate to or is familiar with. McCammon has done this in Gone South. Hey folks, lots of page turning action, romance, sexual tension, and bottom line its a great chase book. If you like your fiction a bit twisted, this is a great book, enjoy.

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Summary: A really good McCammon book.
Review: I have just read Boy's Life, Gone South and Swan Song within the last weeks. McCammon is a very, very good writer and Gone South is a good book. The bounty hunters Flint and Pelvis are the comic touch. They are funny and on a desperate hunt for Dan carrying them deep into the swamps. The only weak point I would point out is the main character, Dan, who I find to be simply too uninteresting and too full of self pity to bring much sympathy, and really if it wasn't for Flint and Pelvis then it would be a bit bland. However Dan does pick up towards the end and the book has a way of putting you in the scene. I like too the way that the bounty hunters are likeable too. It's a fast read, and you keep turning the pages since the book hardly slackens down. It's not as good as Swan Song or Boy's life, but still a bit weaker book from McCammon is like a super book from most other writers.

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Summary: Typical McCammon Brilliance
Review: I have read and loved this authors books for many years and this book shows just why those who read him will also continue to look for his books.
He is about to bring out a new book the first in over ten years so i await with bated breath to continue my love affair with this writers books.
The characters in this book are unique, funny, lovable and just very entertaining and the badies you just love to hate, and sometimes the goodies and badies are not always black and white in what they do or what actions they take to resolve a problem. The story is different but as usual with this author it keeps you thinking and involved all the time. Good reading.