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title: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
type: Book
date: 2021-06-02
rating: 5
author: "John Bernherdt"
genre:
year: 1994
status: Finished
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What is the goal of this book? What is its thesis? 

You might argue "it does not need to have a thesis or goal, it merely needs to be true" — but this book clearly was not strongly interested in truth. Events are re-arranged and embellished for narrative convenience; characters are diminished into caricature.

Which arrives at what I think the goal of this book is, which is to be entertaining. There's nothing wrong with that goal, but — I didn't find the book entertaining! It felt...sneering and ungripping, except with its depictions of the Savannah landscape, which I desperately now wish to visit.