Book is an inadequate description. I like the term manuscript. Lately I've been having a problem with my neck--Dr. Golf has an answer.Sometimes I have a problem with my soul--Dr. Golf has an answer. The ultimate endeavor will survive the latest aberations of hype. Dr. Golf must continue to publish.

I picked up this book on a whim and you should, too. These stories about the post-WWII rural South are often funny, sometimes moving and worth reading.

The stories are short and easy reads, so stick this book on your bedside table and read a story or two each night before going to sleep.

The only fault I had with "Southern Fried Plus 6" is that many of the settings and characters had a sameness to them. But this is a minor problem in what is overall a fine collection.

This a a good collection of stories to introduce readers to William Price Fox. "The Pit Fight" is an exceptional read because of its insightful comment on evils in human nature and has been enjoyed by many of his students that participating in his creative writing classes at the University of South Carolina. You will not regret buying it, it has something for everyone and you'll want to go back to the stories again and again.

I read this book back when I was in college in the early sixties; it was just SOUTHERN FRIED then, a little paperback I picked up on impulse...it turned out to be one of the funniest books I had ever read, and I always regretted giving it away when I joined the army. I never forgot it - who could forget Leroy Jeffcoat with his fast nerves, or Round House with his razor, or the Buzzard's Lope, or, oh, don't get me started.

So I am delighted to see it back in print (with six new additions) and heartily recommend it. This is a particularly good book to have if you're reading in bits - coffee breaks and the like - because the stories are very short. (Some aren't even stories so much as little vignettes.) Be warned, though, your co-workers may look strangely at you when you burst into uncontrollable guffaws.

I can't think of any close comparisons - maybe Jeff Foxworthy on some sort of very dangerous drugs? Anyway buy this and read it. If it doesn't make you laugh you must have had your sense of humor shot off.

this hard to find book is well worth the search. if you love the south (carolinas) and can relate to being a poor adolescent with a desire to own your first car, were a little more adventurous than the average teenager, and understand people in a realistic manner come along for the ride. two young men decide that first hudson is worth smuggling a little moonshine for the local bootlegger. hilarious at times, gut wrenching at others. not recommended for the shallow at heart.

This book is funny, realistic, and the characters are exceptional. Anyone can relate to the plot of a girl that would like to make it big, help a friend see the light, and make it out of a small, provincial town. She meets people along the way that help her to learn where she's going. The ending atypical. If the reader has already decided in what direction Ruby is going, they might be a little let down, but it is nevertheless a realistic ending for a realistic and humorous story.

I love disaster books, and have since I was old enough to read chapter books. Early in my relationship with Amazon, I did a subject search on different disasters, and was suprised by the meager selection. There really are very few readable first-person/journalistic book-length disaster accounts available. We are indeed fortunate to have first-rate books like "The Perfect Storm," and "Isaac's Storm" come out so close together.

It is also the reason I must be kind in this review. These books remind you that you read books like this for two reasons. One is to participate vicariously in an intense experience. The second is to further our understanding of science--both social and physical. How does a disaster develop? How do we react to it? Were the right decisions made? This book, written before the others I mentioned, does not fufill any of these purposes very well.

"Lunatic Wind" is essentially a first-person account of the passage of Hurricane Hugo through South Carolina and how it affected a man, his two teen-aged sons and their grandmother. The account is very parochial and not very insightful.

Perhaps the most memorable passages are the descriptions of the two young men, doggedly ignoring and resourcefully dodging all attempts to keep them from surfing in a hurricane off a barrier island. If anything proves the late development of judgement skills in the adolescent this is it!

One hungers for comprehensive journalistic accounts of important disaster events like Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew: "How did the storms develop?" "Were they predicted accurately?" "How did people (and institutions) survive?" "What was the long-term impact?" But they are apparently rarely attempted. Which makes books like "Lunatic Wind" valuable.

"Lunatic Wind," should be seen as a primary source, a building block, to an eagerly anticipated comprehensive treatment of Hurricane Hugo.

Hello....what book is this? Is it about hurricane Hugo? I need lots of info about hurricane Hugo! Now!

This incredible book is the novelization on actual incidents that occurred during Hurricane Hugo. You will be unable to put this book down, in fact, you may very well fall off the edge of your seat!

This is basically a stretching-out of two of his earlier short stories, "Dear
Diary" and "Dear Diary: Wanda" which were published as part of "Southern Fried Plus Six" in the late Sixties. If you've read those, you've seen pretty much everything in "Wild Blue Yonder." A high school dropout enlists in the Air Corps and various things happen pretty much the same way they did in the earlier stories - training, a bar fight in Texas, the girls he and his buddies meet in town and their night out, he's just adding to old stuff that he's said before. A couple of examples:

From "Dear Diary":
"Had lunch. Good food. Had two helpings of everything. Nice cut of ham with raisin sauce. Potatoes, beans, ice cream and coffee."

From "Wild Blue Yonder":
"Same day 1830 hours. Great food for supper. Nice cut of ham with raisen sauce. Raisen e or i? ...Had two helpings of everything. Except ice cream."

Now, I have been a Fox fan for quite awhile, long enough to have had a copy of "Southern Fried" since the Seventies and to remember big chunks of it, but I have to say I was thoroughly
disappointed with "Wild Blue." I bought it at the Southern Festival of Books, a big literary gathering that happens in Nashville every fall, and meant to go hear Fox speak at one of the authors' forums and maybe even get him to sign this, but I managed to miss his appearance and it's probably just as well. It's actually quite a good story if you haven't read those two from "Southern Fried," but if you have you can see everything coming before Fox says it and the book's not nearly as interesting.

Wild Blue Yonder is a superbly written, semi-autobiographical novel by William Price Fox which is set in 1943 South Carolina, and is about Earl Edge, a 16-year-old truant and small town trouble maker who sees no way out of his problems than to lie about his age and join the air force. Wild Blue Yonder is highly recommended as a coming of age saga told largely in the form of the protagonist's journal entries of change, hardship, the loss of friends, and surviving the perils of World War II.

You need to know that there are NO color pictures in this guide. This book has small b&w photos of what must be nearly all of R.A. Fox's prints with a price guide. It's great to know all the names of the pictures that I have, and the one's that I've seen that I would like to have. However, this book is better for someone with better eyes than I have. For me, the b&w photos are too small to distinguish much of the detail.

This book was a big letdown. As a native South Carolinian I was looking forward to finding some points of interest that not everyone knows about. To suggest that places like Patriot's Point in Charleston are little known secrets is silly. There's a HUGE naval ship in the middle of Charleston Harbor! How can this be considered "off the beaten path"? This book would be helpful for someone visiting our state for the very first and possibly only time, since it's focus is on the most well known tourist attractions in our state. Fox didn't even have the dates for the South Carolina State Fair correct. Never, in my 39 years, has "the fair" been held in September. In fact, when I was younger it was even later in the year than it is now. I think maybe Mr. Fox has been living in Georgia or Florida and only claiming to be from our great state! He knows well the few restaurants he frequents in the low country, but that is it. The BEST book to check for really interesting places and history is SOUTH CAROLINA: A DAY AT A TIME by Caroline Todd & Sidney Wait. These ladies put our esteemed Mr. Fox to shame with their knowledge of our state.