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Deliverance 74 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!
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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 ...
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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
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Still Time 5 reviews
Aperture, 1994
After meeting Mann, the book was made more magical.
+ Sensitive, Remarkable Photographs + still time + THE MAGICAL TOUCH OF BEING GIFTED
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Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader 11 reviews Harry Crews
Touchstone, 1993
A Reason to Read
+ DELIRIOUSLY ABSURD AND DEPRAVED + Southern Fun + beautiful and sad. + dude rocks!
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Michael McDowell's Blackwater I: The Flood 25 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
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A Feast of Snakes: A Novel 32 reviews Harry Crews
Touchstone, 1998
i read
+ What an amazing author! + Wow + Took me HOME.....
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Old Nathan: Old Nathan 1 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 ...
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Suttree 60 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.
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Deep South 7 reviews Sally Mann
Bulfinch, 2005
Transcendent Images
+ Exquisite and Haunting Landscape Photography + moving photos + seeing through the opaqueness
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Immediate Family 35 reviews
Aperture, 1994
Grand Photographic Book
+ Gorjus + Highly Recommended + pretty + I loved it!
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The Devil's Hearth: A Fever Devilin Mystery 13 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
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Outer Dark 33 reviews Cormac Mccarthy
Vintage, 1993
brilliant, disturbing
+ No country for old faint-hearts! + Outer Dark reads like William Faulkner. + Inner Dark, As Well
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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
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Child of God 59 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 ...
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Deep South 7 reviews Sally Mann
Bulfinch, 2005
Transcendent Images
+ Exquisite and Haunting Landscape Photography + moving photos + seeing through the opaqueness
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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 ...
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Immediate Family 35 reviews
Aperture, 1994
Grand Photographic Book
+ Gorjus + Highly Recommended + pretty + I loved it!
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Outer Dark 33 reviews Cormac Mccarthy
Vintage, 1993
brilliant, disturbing
+ No country for old faint-hearts! + Outer Dark reads like William Faulkner. + Inner Dark, As Well
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Suttree 60 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.
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