This was a very uneven piece of work, I thought. I was kind of hoping for road trip stories of the author’s encounters with strange places, kind of a bit of negative Americana, but it was mostly a compilation of other peoples opinions the author obtained from emails, which is very much the style of many of the entries. While there were some entertaining descriptions of American cities and towns, most of it was simply angry rants I could easily find for free online. The entries on cities were broken into various “stats,” some serious such as crime and poverty rates, but most “humorous” such as the types of people who call these “hellholes” home, including such diverse undesirables as “dirty hippies,” Mexicans, violently racist rednecks, gang bangers, or the obese. Politically correct it isn’t, but at least it lets everyone make fun of everyone. While including the blatantly obvious such as Detroit, others tear into small towns like St. Cloud, MN or “overrated” cities like Seattle. I certainly wouldn’t look for any unbiased opinions from this book and the majority of information obtained could easily be found by entering “city-name-here sucks” in Google. While it may provide some insight into some reasons why locals or visitors might dislike a certain place, I just felt “The Absolutely Worst Places to Live in America” slapped together