Deliverance74 reviews
James Dickey

Delta, 1994

I cringed, I squirmed, I had nightmares. Great book.

+ The Sublime Poetry of Violence, Death and Darkness
+ Honor Culture -vs- Culture of Law
+ James Dickey Delivers One of the Greatest Novels Ever Written That Has Done For Wilderness Adventures What Jaws Did For Swimming
+ Don't Miss the Novel!
  
  











  



  
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford World's Classics)
Mark Twain

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There ...
  
  











  



  
Owls Hoot in the Daytime & Other Omens: Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman (Volume 5)5 reviews
Manly Wade Wellman

Night Shade Books, 2003

John the Balladeer

+ Silver John Is A Guitar Man Just Like Me!!!
+ Outstanding fantasy/horror with a regional twist
+ Appalachian Gothic Gold
+ John's back, and he's still singing
  
  











  



  
Still Time5 reviews

Aperture, 1994

After meeting Mann, the book was made more magical.

+ Sensitive, Remarkable Photographs
+ still time
+ THE MAGICAL TOUCH OF BEING GIFTED
  
  











  



  
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader11 reviews
Harry Crews

Touchstone, 1993

A Reason to Read

+ DELIRIOUSLY ABSURD AND DEPRAVED
+ Southern Fun
+ beautiful and sad.
+ dude rocks!
  
  











  



  
Michael McDowell's Blackwater I: The Flood25 reviews
Michael McDowell

Avon Books, 1983

Well-Written, Entertaining Supernatural Saga

+ FANTASTIC BLACKWATER SERIES
+ something creepy in genteel Alabama..
+ Michael McDowell's Blackwater Series
+ Blackwater Series
  
  











  



  
A Feast of Snakes: A Novel32 reviews
Harry Crews

Touchstone, 1998

i read

+ What an amazing author!
+ Wow
+ Took me HOME.....
  
  











  



  
Old Nathan: Old Nathan1 review
David Drake

Baen, 1991

Completely different from anything else Drake has written

This collection of related short stories is completely different in tone, topic, and style from anything else that David Drake has written. Nathan was not yet 20 years old when he fought in the Battle at Green Mountain during the American Revolutionary war and something happened to him that ...
  
  











  



  
Suttree60 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1992

Great!

+ Why can't I write like this?

This is an amazing book. I finished it in 4 days and started all over again. Not for children though.
  
  











  



  
Deep South7 reviews
Sally Mann

Bulfinch, 2005

Transcendent Images

+ Exquisite and Haunting Landscape Photography
+ moving photos
+ seeing through the opaqueness
  
  











  



  
Immediate Family35 reviews

Aperture, 1994

Grand Photographic Book

+ Gorjus
+ Highly Recommended
+ pretty
+ I loved it!
  
  











  



  
The Devil's Hearth: A Fever Devilin Mystery13 reviews
Phillip DePoy

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003

Fire on the Mountain

+ Is there a Shrink in the house?
+ Linger on the Devil's Hearth
+ First in series a true pleaser
  
  











  



  
Outer Dark33 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1993

brilliant, disturbing

+ No country for old faint-hearts!
+ Outer Dark reads like William Faulkner.
+ Inner Dark, As Well
  
  











  



  
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake ...28 reviews
Inc. Foxfire Fund

Anchor, 1972

Sure Fire Reference

+ Oringial Foxfire book
+ Great to read this again
+ I love the whole series!
+ Foxfire collection
  
  











  



  
Child of God59 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 1993

McCarthy's tale of a Southern Ed Gein where Horror becomes Art

+ Good, but not McCarthy's best
+ Road Lovers, Start Here

I love horror of any kind; novels, short stories, movies, you name it. Being from Tennessee, I'm especially drawn to "rural legends" about backwoods boogie men that you often wonder are or aren't lurking somewhere off in the woods beyond your back doorstep. My first McCarthy book was "Blood ...
  
  











  



  
Deep South7 reviews
Sally Mann

Bulfinch, 2005

Transcendent Images

+ Exquisite and Haunting Landscape Photography
+ moving photos
+ seeing through the opaqueness
  
  











  



  
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford World's Classics)
Mark Twain

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There ...
  
  











  



  
Immediate Family35 reviews

Aperture, 1994

Grand Photographic Book

+ Gorjus
+ Highly Recommended
+ pretty
+ I loved it!
  
  











  



  
Outer Dark33 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1993

brilliant, disturbing

+ No country for old faint-hearts!
+ Outer Dark reads like William Faulkner.
+ Inner Dark, As Well
  
  











  



  
Suttree60 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1992

Great!

+ Why can't I write like this?

This is an amazing book. I finished it in 4 days and started all over again. Not for children though.