The story flows ok, the main character is somewhat interesting and her story has been told a thousand times before. Seduced by empty promisses, Pregnant, and no husband...
There are some interesting parts to the second half of the book, but over all, the book is sluggish with unecessay dialogs with strangers, and describtion of scenery and events, (some are pointlesly repeated: told from one and then the next narator point of view). The story moves ever so slow. Almost like the rest of the South. The supporting characters are interesting but muddle up the main story with their inner thoughts, (I supose it is meant to give more insight), but failing to devalope in depth. The view points jump from narator to narator so much its hard to orient one self as to where the story is now, who is talking, and what do they have to do with Billie (the main character).
The language used is the written version of the southren 1960 spoken "english" by the Black Minority and the White Trash Poor. So it is filled with what some would describe as gramar errors. I thought this was the only part of the reading that actually made the book authentic read.
Over all the book is overated, and runs on the Author's maximizing her reputation as a "Pulitzer Prize" winner. Final note though not a bad summer/entertaining reading, it is not this deep, insightful (nor is it particularly funny) book, as promissed by the author and the other reviews.
There are some interesting parts to the second half of the book, but over all, the book is sluggish with unecessay dialogs with strangers, and describtion of scenery and events, (some are pointlesly repeated: told from one and then the next narator point of view). The story moves ever so slow. Almost like the rest of the South. The supporting characters are interesting but muddle up the main story with their inner thoughts, (I supose it is meant to give more insight), but failing to devalope in depth. The view points jump from narator to narator so much its hard to orient one self as to where the story is now, who is talking, and what do they have to do with Billie (the main character).
The language used is the written version of the southren 1960 spoken "english" by the Black Minority and the White Trash Poor. So it is filled with what some would describe as gramar errors. I thought this was the only part of the reading that actually made the book authentic read.
Over all the book is overated, and runs on the Author's maximizing her reputation as a "Pulitzer Prize" winner. Final note though not a bad summer/entertaining reading, it is not this deep, insightful (nor is it particularly funny) book, as promissed by the author and the other reviews.
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