Yeah, I’m reading Book 24 on Week 26, but there’s a long weekend coming up and I’m pretty sure I’ll catch back up then. Anyway. I brought this book home with me after my last trip to MT; my Mom bought it on a whim, read it, thought it was awful, and begged me to take it with me. I thought it was pretty awful, too. It portrayed small town Southerns as the redneck stereotypes everybody thinks of, and I’ve lived in the South long enough to take that sort of thing personally. Granted, I’m not in a small town now…and there’s plenty of rednecks here too, but there are also plenty of people who genuinely care about people. This collection of stories only had one person that genuinely cared about someone else – and it was clear at the end of the book. Other than that, the characters were all caricatures of absolutely miserable people. I did miss the fact that it is a book of short stories, so as the book ended I was still hoping for some resolution from the earlier chapters…but there was none. Couldn’t finish it soon enough.

320 pages
0.5/5 (yep, I thought “Under The Dome” was FAR better than this, for what that’s worth).