My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham Devoto Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of My Last Days as Roy Rogers
Book Review: It brought my Roy Rogers days home again.
Summary: 5 Stars
From debating the merits of Roy Rogers over Gene Autry to building fantastic forts, from being afraid of catching polio to being adventurous enough to tackle local mysteries...the only thing missing from My Last Days as Roy Rogers was trading comic books and eating all the banana pudding I wanted. Pat Devoto lived in a world parallel to mine (is it true we all have a twin?). Ruleville, Mississippi, in the 1950s had the same quirky characters, the same colorful dialgue, and all those old familiar places that have held a lifetime's worth of excitement.Book Review: This was a very enjoyable book .
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed the book. I grew up about 20 miles from the book's fictional town of Bainbridge, Alabama.(It's really Florence, Alabama, the author's hometown) The characters and story in the book share a little "To Kill a Mockingbird" and a little "Huckleberry Finn", even though the two main characters are young girls. Everyone who grew up in a small town in the south knows or knew someone like the adult characters in the book, and possibly even Tab and Maudie. It brings back memories of more innocent times when children could wander around the neighborhood at night and people left their doors unlocked.Book Review: A little Twain, a little Capote, a little Harper Lee.
Summary: 4 Stars
Devoto may have "swiped" just a little from a few other "Southern authors", but the concoction is so delicious, I couldn't find fault. I don't know if you really had to grow up in the 1950's South to truly appreciate this, but it returned me to a place and a time I have sorely missed. I plan to buy several copies for "boomer" friends, both Yank and Rebel.Book Review: Just so-so
Summary: 2 Stars
I was disappointed, maybe because all the reviews I read were so effusive in their praise and I was expecting too much. Still, I found the girls a bit too precious; their friendship contrived; some characters (especially the twins and the father) to be so undeveloped as to be irrelevant; and just a general lack of pizzazz. The comparisons to To Kill A Mockingbird are wrong; this book does not come close. My opinion is obviously in the minority, bubt I just don't think this book is all that good.Book Review: Superb debut book for Devoto..among the best of its genre
Summary: 5 Stars
I borrowed this book from the library and after reading it in one sitting oredered my own copy to enjoy over and over again. The girls are hilarious, endearing and profoundly wise in thier childlike responses to life in that era. I adore southern literary fiction and this is one of the best I have ever read...right up there with the Yahoo girls! Please, Miss Pat, write us another one!