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November, 2007

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   The United States of Appalachia — 1 person

   
   
   
   
2. Wednesday 28

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   Hotspur (Foxhunting Mysteries (Paperback)) — 1 person

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   The Horse Doctor is In — 1 person

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   A Guide to the Crooked Road — 1 person

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informative — 49 weeks ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

He is an enjoyable enough writer. Except that sometimes he explains terms and sometimes he doesn’t which was occasionally infuriating. And unless it is different for horses and people, he uses the term “placenta previa” totally erroneously—for him that means being born in the cowl rather than having the placenta blocking the cervix. But I learned a lot and got caught up on a lot of things that I needed caught up on. And his humor is sometimes actually amusing!

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A story about "A Guide to the Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail" — 1 year ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

I suppose this book is ok since it is only written in order to promote tourism for a very specific state thingie. Ok, really, the whole thing basically s*cks for an actually local person EXCEPT for the 2nd CD. The music CDs included are wonderful. And since he follows the “road” from east to west, and since I’m a girl from the far west part of the road, it is the second CD that I actually really like a lot.

And I didn’t know Tom T. Hall, a rather interesting character himself, is now living in Scott County. He wrote Taking the Crooked Road Home which is on this CD.

And I am always proudly from Wise County, Virginia, thank you very much.

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I so wanted to like this — 1 year ago

and I do love the subtitle but the book, mostly, was of such a skewed perspective as to not be worth reading.

What perspective? Liberal with a capital L Democrat Socialist Progressive perspective. Anything that might smack of, oh, conservative values (like music) was given amazingly short shrift, and anything that smacked of a progressive political perspective was declared to be “appalachian” even when the people he was profiling didn’t live in the mountains more than minutes (like most of his abolitionists . . . while he totally ignores the pro-South perspective that was and still is here which totally ignorant people please note—a pro-South perspective is not pro-slavery).

At least he did a decent job with the Wautaugans (even if he calls them by the wrong name) and the Over-Mountain Men who basically won the revolution for the Patriots. But that story was already well established for him to draw from . . . and his telling isn’t a really compelling one even at that.

sigh.

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