Books by Sharyn McCrumb
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review 1: Soooooooooooooooooo disappointed!! I usually love Sharyn McCrumb,but this book was very hard to read. I realize it is based on a Revolutionary battle, but still, the characters could have been more interesting. And she labels it a "ballad" novel, which usually means there are sup...
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review 1: Amazing. Motive, place, character development...my favorite, Pauline Foster
review 2: Great story that was true. A lot of mystery surrounds what actually happened.
review 2: Great story that was true. A lot of mystery surrounds what actually happened.
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review 1: This book was a Christmas gift from my daughter. If you remember the Kingston trio song you will enjoy this book. A man named Tom Dula was tried, convicted and hanged for murder in Statesville, N. Carolina in 1868. The author did a lot of research, reading the original trial t...
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review 1: 3.5 stars from me. This book is full of beautiful writing, but also has strangely redundant phrases and passages. The main character is a sociopath, so I spent most of the book wanting to see her get her comeuppance. Also, there were parts of the story that made no sense to me, b...
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review 1: THE BALLAD OF TOM DOOLEY BY Sharyn McCrumb is the story behind the story of legend Tom Dula (locals pronounce Dooley, like opera in Grand Old Opry). Dula was convicted of the murder of local girl, Laura Foster, his supposed sweetheart, and hanged. The story takes place in the App...
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review 1: It's not really a novel(la), but two clever and heart-warming stories that never intersect. Each story is very well-done, and I'm glad I read them. But the writing doesn't quite live up to the stories. The Florida influence seems awkward. And, as I said, the stories are not t...