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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 expected this book to be much more of a true crime book than it actually is. The first half of the book chronicles the authors decision to live part time in Savannah, Georgia and he tells tales about the eccentric people he meets. I'm really not interested in stories like this so I found the first half of the book to be pretty boring and I kept getting all the eccentric characters mixed up. The second half of the book primarily focuses of Jim Williams multiple murder trials though stories abou
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Boy what a strange book
As to its authenticity in regards to Savannah and the Savannahians (?), I'm not too clue-y but seeing that it was so well-received, it's probably close and therefore, the intriguing factor of the book. How did a community become so "isolated" and "immune" to changes in the world & of the time? We are, of course, looking at it from an outsider's point of view (being narrated by a New Yorker) who it appears would experience Savannah in the full and thefore, was interacting with all sorts of groups
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Call me crazy, but this is an exceptional instance of when I liked the movie better than the book.
Jan 07, 2017
Marla
marked it as to-read-someday
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