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Anyone who grew up in a small town in the 40's and 50's will enjoy this book, especially if that small town was in the South. Willie Morris was a brilliant wordsmith. I have read several of his books and this one may be my favorite.
I am from Yazoo City so this book has always been one of my favorites. Not many people have that sense of home these days. Yazoo City has an enduring quality and charm that shows in all his books and stories.
I was shy and didn't want to bother him, so I didn't introduce myself and have a chat. There is a great feeling of safety and warmth whenever I drive into the city limits. I saw Willie Morris at a car wash in Jackson, MS not long before his death.
No matter where I live, it will always be home. I would have loved to have spoken with him. Now I regret my shyness - should've taken the chance.
It is a feeling of home. I feel blessed to have grown up there.
I was born 2 years after Mr. I watched baseball in those days, I went into a haunted house, I had my run-ins with a teacher's pet, etc. And the story about the race - very, very unlikely.
My childhood was not at all like Mr. Even thinking about Tom Sawyer, the incidents in there were not as outlandish as those in "Good Old Boy". Morris.
His tales remind me somewhat of the character in the movie "Bigfish". Morris'. I recognized some of the events of the times, but the adventures he told of going through came across to me as gross exaggerations; just think of the 8 foot+ tall Indians he mentions.
To me this book was entertaining and well-written, but not really enlightening regarding growing up in the 40's. but I enjoyed Salinger's writing about this stuff much more.
This was a great memoir about a "typical" southern boy's childhood. I best remember in this book the chapters of a typical day in the life of a boy his age in Yazoo City--a day in the summer and a day in the fall. He tells of his childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, with all his childhood friends, including Spit McGee (the forty's Huckleberry Finn).
I would not put Mr. He recounts the story of the Witch of Yazoo and the broken chain. I wish Willie Morris had not died so young because I found his work so enjoyable, and it would have been wonderful to read even more of his writing.
He recalls their baseball games, football games, hunting on the Delta with his father, practical jokes played on anyone and everyone. Morris up on the same level as Mark Twain (and he probably would not want it either), but this book reminds me in a lot of ways of Tom Sawyer--a young boy's life on the Mississippi Delta. Everyone should experience these memories, whether in real time or vicariously.
One of the best and most humorous of his stories is the tale of the haunted house and what the boys found in it one dark and stormy night. These are great vignettes and very poignant pulling in the reader to want to recall his or her own childhood memories.This is a great memoir and can be enjoyed by all.
This is one of the best books that I have ever read.Mr. Morrishas a beautiful writing style, and captures the beauty of the southperfectly.
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