Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Bad Review
100 Volume in a Year: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Past Figgy | Books | April 7, 2009 |
Past Figgy | Books | April 7, 2009 |
When I started reading this, I had no idea it was based on true events and real people. I knew there was a movie based on it, and then well-nigh halfway through I did some quick research and found out that, aside from some pocket-sized changes to names and situations, every story and every character in this book is existent. That made a great thing even better.
Midnight is, in a nutshell, about the city of Savannah, Georgia. John Berendt, the narrator, is enchanted with Savannah from the second he beginning visits the city. To him, and to the reader, it'south like going into a completely separate and alienated globe, full of strict rules and bizarre characters that live in a place that seems untouched past time and the outside world. It'southward fascinating, really, and to find out that all of the stories are true adds an extra touch of charm and mystery to the book.
The first half of the book is generally full of little stories about the characters Berendt meets during his many trips to Savannah. Each character he encounters not but has their ain personal story, but is full of tales and scandals most people dead or alive. Yous get the sense that there's far more there than could fit in a book. Nosotros find Berendt trying to navigate the maze of personal relationships and the strict hierarchy of Savannah high guild, where everyone knows and remembers everything virtually everybody. This was easily my favorite function of the book. Berendt is never judgmental, and though there are stories of racism, murder, theft and general snobbishness, it'due south all full of humor and the sense that the characters just don't intendance what anyone exterior Savannah thinks. It's seriously great fun to read.
The 2d half is a petty less heady. One of the characters nosotros're introduced to early on in the book commits a shocking murder that rocks all of Savannah high lodge. Information technology'southward a complicated case that ends upward being retried 4 times in a menstruation of 8 years or and then, and Berendt focuses mostly on the trial and this time period in the second half of the volume. It'southward interesting for the about role, but the problem is that zilch much changes from trial to trial, and reading about information technology becomes monotonous and repetitive sometimes. I found myself getting impatient for Berendt to stop talking about the trial and get back to the crazy characters and stories. He does, but keeps returning to the trial, which bogs downward the step of the book somewhat. This isn't to say it makes the volume bad, just non as perfectly consistent with itself as it could have been.
That being said, this is overall a great read. I love stories that deal with multiple characters, and Berendt does a fantastic job of juggling their stories and personalities to give the states a sense of the earth they alive in. It'south amusing and night, full of stories of claret and murder, scandal, death, parties and living the high life. I loved information technology, and just like Berendt himself, I was left fascinated with Savannah.
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