On the Night the Hogs Ate Willie: And Other Quotations on All Things Southern

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Summary: Warts and All, a Survey of the True South
Review: I bought this book thinking it would be a collection of colorful southern language quotes like its title. It's not. While the quotes are interesting and sometimes maddening (if you're from the South), rarely do they approach the colorful style of the book's title. The authors would have added to my enjoyment if they had told me something of the people they quoted (such as a simple "editor of the Podunk Times"). With another title -- and thus with different expectations -- not a bad book, but I feel duped!

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Summary: I feel duped
Review: I bought this book thinking it would be a collection of colorful southern language quotes like its title. It's not. While the quotes are interesting and sometimes maddening (if you're from the South), rarely do they approach the colorful style of the book's title. The authors would have added to my enjoyment if they had told me something of the people they quoted (such as a simple "editor of the Podunk Times"). With another title -- and thus with different expectations -- not a bad book, but I feel duped!

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Summary: Warts and All, a Survey of the True South
Review: In the South we've screwed things up as much as we've gotten'em right and this book covers it all. Quotes on BBQ, kudzu, agriculture, civil rights, literature, topography, bein' nekkid, grits, grammar school, yankees and football make for one of the most accurate pictures of the South I've seen. If this book doesn't make you laugh, tick you off, make you cry, feel nostalgic, proud or ashamed then as the locals say 'you ain't from 'round here.' I use this book all the time, if you like quotes there's always something here for you.

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Summary: Want to know what the real south is like?
Review: This book of quotes gives the most toal picture of the true South that I have seen. Southerners will appreciate it. Others will just enjoy it.