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I suggested this for one of my book clubs after I spent an afternoon in Charleston on a recent road trip. This was also my first Pat Conroy ( but it will not be my last). I just loved this book. Written from the perspective of Leo King and covers a tumultuous period of 20 years, from 1969 through 1989. As it opens, he is a lonely teenager in the summer between Junior and Senior year of high school. June 16th, Bloomsday, changes everything and it will continue to influence his life for many years
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The plot - two suicides, two pedophiles, a nun, a priest, AIDS, a hurricane and a psycho who is out to kill. The story takes place in Charleston, S.C. between 1969 and 1986. High school friends endure long friendships even though life takes them on a series of devastating disasters, which develop during difficult, disgusting, different scenarios dreamed up by this author. Yes, I purposely listed all those words that begin with d!
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Well this was a disappointment. It started out well and I initially had high hopes that this would be an engaging book that was well written. And then the overwrought prose and unrealistic dialogue began...and continued. The unlikely plot twists began to pile up so that it became a game to guess the next one; and one of the twists that was supposed to be a big surprise was obvious at the beginning of the book but took 300 pages to be "revealed". I have not read other books by Pat Conroy and it l
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Conroy includes characters from all walks of life in this novel .... orphans, star athletes, an aids-infected gay, oversexed goddesses of the screen, black cops, ex-nun, an abusive priest,etc... The story is told from the perspective of Leo (former nerd) gossip- writer. The amazing thing about these characters is the fact that most of them are lifelong friends. They all experience some sort of dysfunction and somehow, have a connection that keeps them united in spite of their differences. I don'
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Definitely a page-tuner - and pretty dark, but I did love it as an extravagant foray into adult literature! Conroy truly knows his way around Charleston, a place I remember from childhood as just as sultry and lovley as he depicts.
Oct 04, 2016
Jeana
marked it as dnf
I am going to try a different Pat Conroy book. I have it the old college try but it is BORING, the characters are mostly flat and I can't get through the rest.
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