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    <body><![CDATA[Bragg's third and last book in the trilogy about his family.<br/>Nobody tells the story of the poverty and hard times of living in the foothills of the Appalachian's like Bragg does.  He captures the resilency, strength and love of his people, because he lived it. The good times and the bad.<br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22929569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bragg's third book about his origins in Alabama, this one deals with his alcoholic, unreliable father. There's a huge level of ego masquerading as self-deprecation here, as in, &quot;look how poor I was&quot; and &quot;look how hard it is for me to relate to my own son,&quot; which all carry the imp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31612714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book from the library because it's a memoir and is about a step-father/step-son relationship, two things of interest to me and dear to my heart. I know very little about the American South, so wasn't sure I would really care much about it. I know more about China than I do parts of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29011450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rick Bragg is an amazing writer with a gift for choosing the exact word or metaphor to make his point.  In The Prince of Frogtown he examines fatherhood,  looking both at his father and his stepson.  His  hard living, hard fighting, hard drinking father was a miserable SOB by most lights...but he ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22684525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as strong as &quot;All Over but the Shoutin'&quot; but still, no one evokes time and place among contemporary authors like Rick Bragg. He alternates stories about his much-reviled father -- a drunk who left his wife and three sons in the lurch -- with stories about him and his new stepson (his b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25685655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Rick Bragg's writing!  In this third and last trilogy of his family memoirs he shares the struggles of his alcoholic father in an intricate merging of his own growing relationship with his stepson.  &quot;All Over But the Shouting&quot; remains my favorite, but this is a good read with a powe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20123143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;All Over but the Shoutin'&quot; and &quot;Ava's Man&quot; left me with a sense of something positive--well-being or even a slight modicum of peace, &quot;The Prince of Frogtown&quot; did the exact opposite--it saddened me and and angered me. Bragg discusses his father with a distance that make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27043476">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Rick Bragg is an evocative story teller, and I think his memoirs are strong, probably partially owing to him being a journalist.  This third memoir is about his mostly absent father--who was written off as a mere footnote in his previous books.  Bragg delves into his father's childhood and h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35108796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Memorable quotes:<br/>&quot;We were driving through Piedmont...my grandfather Bobby was holding a bottle half hidden by a popcorn bag...I lived a long time after that believing you could hide any sin in the Bible if you had a big enough brown paper bag. I wish they made them people-sized. I would c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22815904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've now devoted enough time examining Rick Bragg's childhood.  I get it.  It was horrible.  I enjoyed the first two volumes in this trilogy (All Over But the Shoutin' and Ava's Man) more than this one.  I got the impression that he was meeting a deadline and rushed the writing.  Basically the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31357777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rick Bragg snatches you out of your own life and immerses you in his history in such a way that you feel you are his vicarious wing-man, only to realize that you are only witnessing the parallels of his and your own experiences. His trilogy of All Over But The Shoutin', Ava's Man, and The Prince of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37030965">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All Over But the Shoutin' is in my top ten books of all time.  Yes, the titles on this list vary depending on my mood, but you'll surely find Rick Bragg in there somewhere.  Like Mary Karr and her Liar's Club, like Peter Greenaway and his fluorescent world, like Mary Tyler Moore, Bragg gives everyda...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27344012">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I missed the first two books in the trilogy, but I am happy I picked up the Prince of Frogtown in Book People.  I was looking for a Summer read, and when I caught the cover and line &quot;Double dog dares, Blow Pops, Cherry Bombs, Indian Burns, chicken fights and giggling half wit of choruses&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32834868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bragg continues, giving us an in-depth look at the man who was his father-- what formed him into the oft-times hard, rough character who seemingly had little regard for those around him.<br/>And yet, showed remarkable signs of tenderness at other times.<br/>A fantastic journey of a man trying to f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49454317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[took me several sittings to get into this one, but i'm glad i stuck with it. rich sense of time and place. bragg alternates between passages about his father and passages about his stepson. he goes looking for &quot;the father he never knew&quot; (the boy and man his father was before becoming the v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26389746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who else but a southern writer can throw chuckles in the middle of such a tragic story.  Who else but Rick Bragg can do this with a true and personal story.  He seems to have pushed aside his need to parade his way of southern writing around like a dog &amp; pony show and gotten to the true heart of sou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21241828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really liked this book - some parts were 5 stars for sure, it was a hard one to rate. I went with 4 stars because there were some parts (the history of the mills, etc) that I could not get into and made me wonder if I would be able to finish the book. After the history lessons were over though - I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33842722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prince of Frogtown<br/><br/>Karl Wallenda, the great-grandfather of daredevils, said life is the wire and the rest is waiting. My father couldn't scare himself but he could scare the rest of them.<br/><br/>She was happy with a gentle helpless boy, because a boy like that would need her forever....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70380475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No question, Rick Bragg is a great writer. In The Prince of Frogtown, he stitches together his father's life, a man who knew little and thought little of. A raging alcoholic, Charles Bragg abandoned his family for drink when his three sons were little boys. This is a sad, painful tale. <br/><br/>G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70335311">more...</a>]]></body>
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