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Loading... South of Broadby Pat Conroy
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. didn't like so quit reading  Sockurmum | Dec 25, 2009 |  This is my first Conroy book and I loved it. It took me a while to learn all the characters but once I did the book was great. I have bought other Conroy books and have them in my tbr stack. (  ) tanya2009 | Dec 24, 2009 | love descriptions, of the settings he makes me almost feel that I am really there. The narrator, Leo King is a paper boy in the beginning of the book, and his descriptions of bicycling through his paper route made me want to visit Charleston and walk or even bike those streets. Although this book is is the story of 10 people who meet the summer before there senior high school year (1969) and we follow them through to the present. It is almost a love story of the city. This is one of those books I didn’t want to put down. When I did have to put it aside to do some real work I kept wondering what would happen next. Although some critical reviews did not find this story plausible, or believable, that these people would remain friends for so many years. I think it is something we would all hope to find. I found parts of some of Conroy’s books to be a bit graphic, and although this one had some “gritty “, I did not find it as disturbing as some of the others. This was the first book that had a sympathetic, loving father. I found the end of the book uplifting, and felt like I was saying good-bye to some good friends when I finished the last page. (  ) cr82learn | Dec 8, 2009 | Excellent writer, no breakthrough news here. Creates a vivid landscape with characters that capture ones attention. This is my first Pat Conroy book so I can't compare it to others he has written. In response to some of the harsh interviews, I guess it depends on what you are comparing a work against (i.e. the author's "oeuvre" or the wide world of books). As in rating anything, the bigger the field, the better the review for talent. Are we comparing it against the "Great Books of the World" or general fiction? ( ) librarygeek33 | Dec 6, 2009 | More about Charleston than anything else, with Hurricane Hugo coming on stage at the end. This is a preppy Conroy, not the rough country boy of Prince of Tides, but just so Charleston. ( ) Jaie22 | Dec 3, 2009 | 
 Conroy thanks his editor Nan A. Talese in his acknowledgments, but South of Broad merely adds urgency to the question of what it is this woman does, exactly, apart from pick up the tab.  Conroy remains a magician of the page. As a writer, he owns the South Carolina coast. But the descriptions of the tides and the palms, the confessions of love and loss, the memories “evergreen and verdant” set side by side with evocations of the “annoyed heart” have simply been done better — by the author himself. Conroy is an entertaining storyteller -- he has a corker of a final twist here -- yet much of “South of Broad” shows a weakness for emotional fireworks, two-dimensional characters and rough or purplish prose. Conroy reels his teenage characters through cliché showdowns of racial and class divisions, trying to make those broad social issues the backdrop to the personal stories in the narrative -- including the recurring presence of the shadowy and vicious Poe father. But Conroy doesn't have anything new or interesting to say about the racial and class divides. And too many of his characters are set up as types instead of fully fledged people, incapable, at times, of anything more than the most mundane of dialogues.
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