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The Wettest County In The World: A Novel Based On A True Story (2008)

by Matt Bondurant(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416561390 (ISBN13: 9781416561392)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Scribner Book Company

review 1: I started listening to this book in audio format, and while I thought the narrator was fantastic, I don't think the novel's structure lends itself to audio. The story of the Bondurant brothers running moonshine during Prohibition is interwoven with the story - several years later - of reporter Sherwood Anderson trying to uncover the Bondurants' involvement with the Moonshine Conspiracy in Franklin County. The shifting of the narrative was confusing in audio, so I switched to the printed text, but in the end I've decided my real problem was with the author's decision to include Sherwood Anderson as a narrative device. I found his character distracting to the main storyline, and I would have preferred more focus on developing the Bondurants. Still, I liked the author's lyric... moreal prose and found that despite the poverty and violence in the story, there was a hopeful tone, less depressing than other GritLit I have read recently. Maybe because the main character Jack Bondurant is a dreamer or maybe just because this story carries with it the aura of family legend.
review 2: Okay, this book has a good story to it...but it just so hard to get through. There were some good parts where I got totally lost in the book. The other parts I found myself skimming (which I do not do). It is the rare occasion where I like the movie more than the book. You do learn more about the brothers which is why I wanted to read the book in the first place, but all in all not really a book I enjoyed and would not recommend it. less

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