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Audiobook read by Jeff Woodman.
Berendt was a free-lance journalist when curiosity took him to Savannah and he began to write about the particularly insular culture of that Southern city. Then a murder happened, and his story really took off.
I read this sometime in the mid to late 1990s. My F2F book club discussed it in June 1997, and I know I had read it before then. Of course, that pre-dated my keeping track of my reads on Goodreads (or even in my handwritten book journal), and I have no notes ...more
Berendt was a free-lance journalist when curiosity took him to Savannah and he began to write about the particularly insular culture of that Southern city. Then a murder happened, and his story really took off.
I read this sometime in the mid to late 1990s. My F2F book club discussed it in June 1997, and I know I had read it before then. Of course, that pre-dated my keeping track of my reads on Goodreads (or even in my handwritten book journal), and I have no notes ...more
I enjoyed this book on Audio CD narrated by Jeff Woodman. Excellent narration. I especially liked Minerva's voice.
Truth IS stranger than fiction. And Savannah is not just the genteel city I have experienced in the past. I met some pretty weird characters in this book. John Berendt met them all, even though he changed some names to protect the few but chosen ones.
You will meet along the way Joe Odom, Chablis, Minerva, Jim Williams and Danny Hansford to name only a few.
I have good friends who live ...more
Truth IS stranger than fiction. And Savannah is not just the genteel city I have experienced in the past. I met some pretty weird characters in this book. John Berendt met them all, even though he changed some names to protect the few but chosen ones.
You will meet along the way Joe Odom, Chablis, Minerva, Jim Williams and Danny Hansford to name only a few.
I have good friends who live ...more
1.5 STARS
"Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex."" (From Amazon)
I found the writing a ...more
"Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex."" (From Amazon)
I found the writing a ...more
The author does a great job with creating/relaying interesting and quirky characters; in fact, the first half of the book is basically just presenting them. While they are enjoyable it does seem to intimate that southerners are all quirky and weird. As a southerner myself I have to say that there are far more normal people than that type, though I suppose they don't draw readers. It almost feels like our job is to put on a show to entertain curious northerners. I have to agree with other reviewe
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Jul 26, 2014
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu
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Shelves:
mysteries-of-all-kinds,
history-non-fiction
Jul 11, 2013
Bianca
marked it as to-read
