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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Start date: August 1, 2023

Finish date: August 31, 2023

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: August 2023 New School Classic Group Read
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Dec 25, 2018 RJ - Slayer of Trolls rated it really liked it

Not really a true crime book as much as it is an introduction to the eccentric denizens of Savannah, GA, a mysterious and wondrous place largely untouched by the outside world. Whether or not the first-hand stories and accounts of the local goings-on are exaggerated by the teller (which is to say, the person relating the story to the author of the book) or even wholly fictitious is unimportant in the face of how completely entertaining and outrageously hilarious these tales often are.

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Feb 05, 2009 Suvi rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: _north-america, non-fiction, true-crime, deep-south

The second half was boring because of the court case. I was somewhat disappointed since it is a true crime book but the eccentric characters who actually exist made up for it.

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