Tobacco Road (Revised) | 
The Lester family is a group I have not forgotten since I first encountered them in my 9th grade reading class.
Tobacco road is disturbing, funny, depressing, and realistic to the time frame in which it's set. You follow a family of poor Southerners who keep making the same bad choices. It always made me wonder how different this story might play out if it wasn't set in the rural South.
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pickI don‘t know how to review this. It was funny, and depressing in equal measure. And in the end, there was no character growth, which seems to be the point. #bannedbooks
Started this on my lunch hour today. #currentread #bannedbooks
Reading this little classic. I know nothing about it going in.
Early Bird Books has 1300 books on sale today, because it‘s Friday the 13th. I might have gone overboard. ☺️
panRead for @bookriot s #ReadHarder Challenge to read a book set within 100 miles of your location. If this book wasn't 108 pages I would have DNF it. Dialogue was annoyingly repetitive, did not connect with any character, and found it creepy. It did not help that the formatting and typeset of this printing was HORRIBLE. If you want to read this find an older used copy, DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTING.
Here's a look at the book I got earlier today. It's a first edition in great condition and came with this little card explaining the history of the book. Really cool!
@Reviewsbylola do you know anything about it? Sounds like the original Hillbilly Elegy..
Passed by the Alabaster Bookshop today and just has to pop in for a minute! So many old, rare books in there... but I walked away with just one! Very proud of my restraint ☺️
pickIf you combined Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty, the Beverly Hillbillies, and As I Lay Dying, you'd end up with the Lester family in Tobacco Road. Every character in this white trash Southern novel is absolutely awful, but that just makes them that much more interesting.
Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain‘t got nothing. That‘s how it looks to me. Don‘t seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain‘t got no time to fool with us poor folks.
