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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m reading Demon Copperhead. 600 hundred pages long and it is sagging. I want to quit! I can’t bare to read it anymore, I don’t care about Demon. Too much internal dialogue and not enough plot.[/quote]

I fast forwarded and skipped a bunch. The ending was good. I just couldn't.

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Bleak, dark, rambling. I sooo wanted it to end. Wouldn’t recommend. I think she took real license and painted a dramatized and overstated version of that part of the world. [/quote]

No. The setting and story are very real. My book-loving friends who are also from Appalachia either couldn't read it or did so essentially feeling heartsick most of the time (I was the latter). We all know our own real-life Demons and Maggots and Aunt Junes and Emmys and Fast Forwards and Doris, often many times over. We all have some version of Devil's Bathtub and "dragging Main" in the Lariat. We know the poverty and the irreparably torn families and have seen most of the horrific things the book describes. Nothing in that book surprised me; nothing in it was something I haven't personally seen.

I do think it was a good book, though.

Pachinko and Circe were two of my favorite long reads. Half of a Yellow Sun was a rough but rewarding slog.[/quote]

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