Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Apr 04, 2009 fyc rated it really liked it

I read this book a long time ago but forgot that I had until I started reading it this time around. I must not have liked it much the first time because the facts don't come back to me very quickly and I've forgotten a lot of things (like Chablis) that I shouldn't have. I usually have good recall of a book that I've read and enjoyed so I must not have cared much for this one the first time around. This time, however, I was amused and fascinated by it. It is so full of eccentrics that I couldn't ...more

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Nov 25, 2009 Angela Randall rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, award-winner, a-great-list-of-top-books-to-read, young-adult-educational-material, we-own, bruce-recommends, history, 1990-1999, 20th-century, friends-recommend

This is one of those books where you just need to pick it up and be prepared to enjoy the ride. I can't believe these people are real! Okay, so maybe take off a little eccentricity for artistic license, but even so these people are completely unbelievable... which can only be attributed to the fact that this is non-fiction. I mean, if this was fiction you'd HAVE to say the characters were unrealistic - they're just that far off the wall. ...more

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