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Summary: Interesting look at America
Review: "Redneck Nation" is an attempted satire comprised of over- generalizations and stereotyping. Although originally from the South, the author perpetuates stereotypes that are common among North-Easterners, and the film industry. Some are accurate, some partly true, and many blatantly false. Sociological statistics compare northern and southern societies, highlighting the differences, which are interesting. All in all, this attempt to be sardonic, satirical and humorous, turned out to be nothing more that impish adolescence.
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Summary: New Book, Old Stereotypes
Review: "Redneck Nation" is an attempted satire comprised of over- generalizations and stereotyping. Although originally from the South, the author perpetuates stereotypes that are common among North-Easterners, and the film industry. Some are accurate, some partly true, and many blatantly false. Sociological statistics compare northern and southern societies, highlighting the differences, which are interesting. All in all, this attempt to be sardonic, satirical and humorous, turned out to be nothing more that impish adolescence.
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Summary: Self Proclaimed Obnoxious A$$
Review: ...This book is supposed to be humor, but I find very little humor in constantly knocking your own roots, and mocking sarcasm about everything that suits his fancy. If you don't mind being insulted, (whether Southern or not) feel free to buy this. Otherwise your money would be better spent elsewhere.
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Summary: Brilliant and Funny
Review: As an expatriate South Carolinian (but who is returning soon and nailing his feet to the ground) I have thoroughly enjoyed Michael Graham from his days on public radio and writing for the Free Times of Columbia. Redneck Nation followsw in the Graham tradition of bludgeoning into submission any attempt for the Old South to rise again. So, obviously Graham sees the needs to point out that the rest of the country, paticularly the self-important intellectual elites, have adopted the Old South's ideals and called them enlightened. Read this book, and you'll be surprised at hoe accurately Graham skewers both the North and South equally. This book is also laugh out lous funny. Buy it, read, and definitely give one to your Yankee friends. They'll love it, too.
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Summary: This book should be catalogued as fiction.
Review: As you may know by now, the thesis of Mr. Graham's book is "the South is backward, stupid, and bigoted. It used to be that only the South was this way, but the South has successfully exported its backwardness, stupidity and bigotry to the rest of the country." The notion that bigotry and stupidity originated in the South is ludicrous, and the assertion that at one time the United States north of the Mason Dixon line was a bastion of progressiveness and acceptance is simply contrary to fact.
Next time you write a book, Mr. Graham, back up your assertions with fact. A little research would totally disprove your notion that racial problems, closed-mindedness and ignorance were at some point "acquired" by the rest of the country by virtue of the South's influence. Unfortunately, they've been there all along.
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Summary: This book should be catalogued as fiction.
Review: As you may know by now, the thesis of Mr. Graham's book is "the South is backward, stupid, and bigoted. It used to be that only the South was this way, but the South has successfully exported its backwardness, stupidity and bigotry to the rest of the country." The notion that bigotry and stupidity originated in the South is ludicrous, and the assertion that at one time the United States north of the Mason Dixon line was a bastion of progressiveness and acceptance is simply contrary to fact.
Next time you write a book, Mr. Graham, back up your assertions with fact. A little research would totally disprove your notion that racial problems, closed-mindedness and ignorance were at some point "acquired" by the rest of the country by virtue of the South's influence. Unfortunately, they've been there all along.
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Summary: Redneck Nation Hilarious.
Review: Having come from the "south" I should be offended by his raucous humor about "us". Unfortunatly truth hearts.
Laughing, crying, holding my sides I read it non-stop.
His humor is reminiscent of Chris Rock, who manages to "get" everyone.
In these times, it really is important to laugh at ourselves and our strangenesses. This book pretty much covers them all.
Have plenty of pork-rinds available.
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Summary: Funny and right on target.
Review: He grew up in Dixie, couldn't wait to get out, and found that there was no "out" to get to. That, as Michael Graham tells it, is the story of his life, and he spends the rest of the book illustrating his predicament in hilarious fashion. Politically correct types of both left- and right-wing varieties will find much with which to be offended here. Graham skewers northern liberals for their hypocrisy and pretense, pointing out in no uncertain terms that they are, by and large, not nearly as far removed from stereotypical Southern "redneckism" as they would so desperately like to believe. At the same time, the author is neither a Dixie defender nor a right-wing populist; his primary beef with the North (and with the North's liberalism) is its failure to live up to its stated ideals and promises, rather than its hostility to a "redneck" culture that Graham seems to genuinely despise. All in all, an entertaining if slight view of where we're headed in America.
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Summary: Can I get a refund from Mr. Graham?
Review: Humor is one thing, hate is another. It's obvious Mr. Graham despises the South, and doesn't care over much for the remainder of the United States. Too bad we're not all as sophisticated and worldly as he believes himself to be. PS - I had to give him a star; Amazon wouldn't take my review unless I gave him one.
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Summary: Continuing the stereotypes of the South, without originality
Review: I cannot recall having read a book written with more contempt for the South and its people. This author surely must have had a most unhappy childhood after he moved to South Carolina, at a young age. His characterizations of Southerners must have been influenced strongly by his nurturing mother, who was also from the South(Southern California),as they faithfully follow the tiresome stereotypes of Hollywood. We've all heard most of his
"humorous descriptions of the typical Southerner" many many times. His innovative "discovery" that racial prejudice and other low-minded traits exist outside the South, must be seen as truly insightful, according to the book jacket and other on-line reviews. To quote one of the Mr. Graham's favorite sources, "noone ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American Public." I'm sure this book will sell.
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