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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

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Vintage (1999), Paperback, 400 pages

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I enjoyed reading this book but it was hard to stay motivated. It seem to drag on a bit. I did buy this in Savannah and saw some of the locations in the book wich made reading it fun. The characters are so life like and Berendt writes them vividly. Overall is a good read. ( )
  LorLe | Dec 27, 2009 |
This book felt like a series of vignettes about eccentrc Savannah characters. I felt it did not contain enough "story" for me. But it does make me want to see the movie. ( )
  SandyMarshall | Dec 9, 2009 |
This is a piece of fiction wrapped around a single true event. Be that as it may, it is well written and entertaining ( )
  jwcooper3 | Nov 15, 2009 |
This book is just so good. It's funny, full of memorable characters, and completely true. That last actually makes it even more compelling. In short, it's about the author's adventures in Savannah, Georgia, in the 1980s and all the quirky people he meets. It's also about the murder trial(s) of Jim Williams, a wealthy antiques dealer whose annual Christmas party is the height of the social scene. I was drawn in from the very first, and now I desperately want to visit Savannah and see its storied beauty. ( )
  melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |
Great book...unbelievable eccentrics...UGA - the bulldog - ...murder & mayhem...all true! ( )
  CarmenOhio | Oct 11, 2009 |
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He was tall, about fifty, with darkly handsome, almost sinister features: a neatly trimmed mustache, hair turning silver at the temples, and eyes so black they were like the tinted windows of a sleek limousine - he could see out, but you couldn't see in.
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John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame.

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