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Summary: Five Stars!
Review: I never figured this one out until the very end, and I loved the payoff on every level. A hard book to pigeonhole though--John Grisham mixed with John Updike and a little Hunter S. Thompson maybe. The writing is exceptional, and I loved the author's sense of humor. Everything about this book seems so polished and evocative that you just slip into it and roll along with the characters. It's smart and moving and right on target. I've actually started it again.
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Summary: A Funny, Irreverent Look at the Rural South
Review: Judge Clark's depiction of the rural south and his mixed bag of characters is more than a stereotypical "trailer trash" novel. Those of us with southern roots have met Brother Pascal and his cohorts, have female friends with two names - such as Ruth Esther - and can conjure up memories of adventures involving Miller Lite and pickup trucks. The characters may be fictional but we "know" them. The twists and turns of plot reveal the author's expansive imagination and superb storytelling skills. THE MANY ASPECTS OF MOBILE HOME LIVING is "good ole boy" glory at its best.
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Summary: Super Book
Review: THE MANY ASPECTS OF MOBIL HOME LIVING is the best book I've read in years. It's a tour de force--brilliant, funny, clever and a great read right to the end. So very few books these day are plausible and entertaining on a plot level. This one tells a great, fun, twisting tale and drops in a real lesson without getting preachy. MOBILE HOME LIVING is the real thing, the whole package. Highly recommended.
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Summary: The Many Aspects Of Mobile Home Living
Review: Clark's first book is a winner! It keeps you turning pages to see what may happen next. The name says it all. A great book!
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Summary: Southern Fiction's Triumphant Return
Review: Clark's first novel is a rollicking read, a classic Southern novel. With his artful prose and well honed vocabulary, Clark tips his hat in the direction of other fine Southern writers that have preceded him, while remaining strikingly fresh and new. This novel takes us on a serpentine trip, both literally and figuratively, as we explore not only the North Carolina and West Virginia landscapes, but also take the occassional side trip into the inner workings of our revered legal system. Not to mention a drug laced exploration or two into the meaning of life. Clark has managed, in these short 350 pages, to conjure up and slay many of our most feared demons, from the classic disillusionment of our post-graduate times to the spiritual abyss that so many of us have adopted as our safe haven. And he has done it through the introduction of a cast of rascals and ner' do wells that tug at your heartstrings like long lost friends. While the task seems to be nearly overwhelming on its face, Clark manages to twine all of the pieces into a solid rope, leaving only one question unanswered at the surprising conclusion of this excellent first work--Where is my Ruth Esther? This is a must read!
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Summary: outrageously comical
Review: Judge Clark has apparently been a keen observer of human nature and has captured it well in this comical, somewhat robbinesque tale. Should appeal to a wide variety of readers as it has elements of many genre's artfully blended.
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Summary: Witty, with Twist and Turns
Review: A great first novel. A nifty story highlighted with wonderful charchter development. If I hadn't met many of these folks in person I would swear Judge Clark made them up.
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Summary: A true original - funny and twisted and new
Review: I admit that the title alone is what drew me to this book, but the author doesn't disappoint: THE MANY ASPECTS OF MOBILE HOME LIVING is as odd and beguiling and clever as its title promises. It's no white trash epic, but actually a weird and compelling ride with a young, spiritually lost judge of the New South and his brother, a charming rogue with his own problems. Their misadventures and romances and conversations are never less than entertaining, but Clark has more on his mind than that. He uses his characters, so strange and complicated that they seem as real as any fictional people you'll ever encounter, to explore many important themes -- success, the American Dream, race, the meaning of life -- in a subtle and yet thrillingly original way. At the end, I got the feeling you always get from the best books, that everything the author wrote is true and that all the characters you met are off living their lives in the same fits and stalls and moments of transcendence we all experience, and if you knew them or had their phone numbers you could just call them up and talk about whatever goofy things you talk about with your real friends. The blurb on the back compares him to Hiassen, but entertaining as Hiassen is, I think Clark is a deeper and rarer bird, already more accomplished in limning real people and the things they do - if not as sharp with plot, which at times seems almost incidental. But the writing is so good it doesn't matter.
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Summary: THE NY TIMES IS WRONG
Review: Despite all the buzz and hoopla, the NY Times got it wrong. This book isn't "the best legal thriller" ever written. No, you see, it's hardly a legal thriller at all as best I can tell, and I've read it twice as of this morning. This is a book with some characters from the legal world and some scenes that happen in the courtroom, but the book is so much better than that narrow area. It's trippy and wild and just plain out there. I loved the judge, Evers; he's funny, believable and at times frustrating. That makes him real. A HUMAN BEING. The three or four plots keep you guessing until the end, and there's never a dull moment. Most of all, I admire Mr. Clark for breaking out of the box and writing a book that ignores convention and all the pc nonsense in the world. So the Times got it partly right. This is a great book, no doubt about it.
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Summary: overhyped disappointment
Review: I couldn't get through the first two chapters of this book, and I really wanted to, given the hype I had read about what a funny, unique book it was. I found it cliched and the writing, especially the dialogue, to be awkward and unlifelike. I felt betrayed, like I had wasted my money. If I had picked it up in a book store and read the first two pages, I would have put it back and found something else.
It speaks volumes about the promotion that goes into making the next big hit in the fiction publishing world
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