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Summary: Rednecks, Snakes and Corrupt Law Men -Yoweee
Review: I had never heard of Harry Crews until I did a search on bodybuilding books and came up with the fiction book Body authored by Mr. Crews. From there it has been a rocky raucous road! A Feast of Snakes was adventure from the get go. Snake roundups in Mystic, GA., one legged sheriff raping the women,
bodybuilders, former high school athletes living off their past, shine....way too much to talk about here - you have to read the book!...set the mood before you start - sit on your porch with a mason jar full of spirits and take off on a non stop whirlwind adventure.
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Summary: White trash runs wild
Review: I read this book several years ago, and it still stays with me. This story of white trash living in the south, living off of old glory, whiskey, and rage is really something good. It's a horrific account of lives that are worth nothing, and those same lives act accordingly, and in the most nasty ways. Not for the weak, but a good read!
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Summary: Brutal, depraved, perfect...
Review: I read this book while a junior in college in a Southern Lit. class. What words can I use to describe it? Twisted...Black...Funny...Entertaining?
I really enjoyed this book. What makes this work unique is that it is a story of a "highschool HERO/ real life ZERO" in a small town in Georgia. Crew's goes deep into the psyche of his characters and their respective alternative personalities (I use alternative instead of "Dark-side").
The characters have a real-life authenticty concerning their physical actions, attitudes, and thoughts. They are projected so well that one could apply FEAST OF SNAKES in lessons of psychology.
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Summary: A lesson in psychology?
Review: I read this book while a junior in college in a Southern Lit. class. What words can I use to describe it? Twisted...Black...Funny...Entertaining?
I really enjoyed this book. What makes this work unique is that it is a story of a "highschool HERO/ real life ZERO" in a small town in Georgia. Crew's goes deep into the psyche of his characters and their respective alternative personalities (I use alternative instead of "Dark-side").
The characters have a real-life authenticty concerning their physical actions, attitudes, and thoughts. They are projected so well that one could apply FEAST OF SNAKES in lessons of psychology.
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Summary: Sure enough, _A Feast of Snakes_ will knock you on your butt
Review: I somehow remembered an old lit. teacher mentioning the name "Harry Crews" in a class once before he read bits from an old interview out loud. I remember snickering a little when I heard what Crews had to say about Ayn Rand. In Joe Lon Mackey, we are brought an unforgettable example of near-success and public short-term memory. _A Feast of Snakes_' main character is unable to come to terms with his lost football star fame and liquor-selling future. As the locals and tourists gather to hunt and consume Mystic's rattlesnake population, Joe Lon's fate and hollow memories consume him and propel him towards his destiny. I read _A Feast of Snakes_ for the first time five months ago, and the hollow spaces in my guts still reverberate from its stark and powerful impact. Not since reading _Heart of Darkness_ have I been so awestricken by one man's writing. Crews' prose is as hard and earthy as his characters. His portrayal of Mystic, Georgia remind me of the fearful travels I've taken to the Low Country and the "Dark Corner" of my native South Carolina. Mystic's inhabitants share the same unflinching grotesqueness of the people that lived down the dirt roads and in the screen-doored country stores of my childhood. And their spawn who we their teeth. The shadows of these eerie places and freakish people are resurrected in _A Feast of Snakes_. But the more I talk, the less I describe _A Feast of Snakes_. You will be as speechless as I was when I put it down.
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Summary: Sure enough, _A Feast of Snakes_ will knock you on your butt
Review: I somehow remembered an old lit. teacher mentioning the name "Harry Crews" in a class once before he read bits from an old interview out loud. I remember snickering a little when I heard what Crews had to say about Ayn Rand. In Joe Lon Mackey, we are brought an unforgettable example of near-success and public short-term memory. _A Feast of Snakes_' main character is unable to come to terms with his lost football star fame and liquor-selling future. As the locals and tourists gather to hunt and consume Mystic's rattlesnake population, Joe Lon's fate and hollow memories consume him and propel him towards his destiny. I read _A Feast of Snakes_ for the first time five months ago, and the hollow spaces in my guts still reverberate from its stark and powerful impact. Not since reading _Heart of Darkness_ have I been so awestricken by one man's writing. Crews' prose is as hard and earthy as his characters. His portrayal of Mystic, Georgia remind me of the fearful travels I've taken to the Low Country and the "Dark Corner" of my native South Carolina. Mystic's inhabitants share the same unflinching grotesqueness of the people that lived down the dirt roads and in the screen-doored country stores of my childhood. And their spawn who we their teeth. The shadows of these eerie places and freakish people are resurrected in _A Feast of Snakes_. But the more I talk, the less I describe _A Feast of Snakes_. You will be as speechless as I was when I put it down.
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Summary: Great Work of Fiction
Review: I was assigned this awesome book in my Georgia History Class and let me tell you it is out of this world!!!! The only thing holding it back was the fact that Crews stretches it out and makes the story develop slow. Usually I shun any author that overstretches his book, but Crews does it with finesse. Crews builds up such suspense that makes the overstretching worthwhile. The book is a wonderful read though. You must keep an open mind because of the language and the sexual themes that Crews employs. Once you get over those, it's not hard to see what a great writer of fiction Crews is among other contemporaries.
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Summary: Great Work of Fiction
Review: I was assigned this awesome book in my Georgia History Class and let me tell you it is out of this world!!!! The only thing holding it back was the fact that Crews stretches it out and makes the story develop slow. Usually I shun any author that overstretches his book, but Crews does it with finesse. Crews builds up such suspense that makes the overstretching worthwhile. The book is a wonderful read though. You must keep an open mind because of the language and the sexual themes that Crews employs. Once you get over those, it's not hard to see what a great writer of fiction Crews is among other contemporaries.
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Summary: Did I miss something?
Review: I was really looking forward to reading this book in hopes that it would bring back warm memories of the South that I know and love. Not what I got. I think I may have enjoyed this book when I was fifteen and loved all those prepubescent teen books. I was really disappointed.
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Summary: Best Definition of
Review: LOVE OUT THERE IN THIS TWISTED WORLD. CREWS IS SO O'CONNOR WONDERFUL - HE CAPTURES WHAT FAULKNER AND O'CONNOR WOULD HAVE IF THEY WERE STILL WRITING TODAY. BUT HIS DEFINITION OF LOVE IN THIS NOVEL IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS!
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