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ridgewaygirl's review against another edition
5.0
Castle Freeman, Jr. is a very good writer. So good that you never notice that his writing is any good at all; you're too busy following the rapidly moving plot, in which the tension is gradually mounting and things are about to go very wrong. You don't even notice the pitch perfect tone of the dialog because it sounds just like ordinary people sound, while talking about ordinary things. The cadences and patterns fall so perfectly that they are invisible and all you notice is a couple of old guys shooting the breeze.
In Go with Me, Lillian sits in her old car in the parking lot behind the sheriff's office. Armed with a paring knife, she waits to tell him that Blackaway's after her. He's killed her cat and he's coming after her. The sheriff sends her to the old mill to ask Scottie for help. What she gets isn't him, but an unlikely pair of protectors who set out for the backwoods of the lost towns to find Blackaway and get him to leave her alone.
Go With Me is a short book, but it's full of atmosphere and foreboding. There's not a wasted word in the book and each character is fully fleshed out in so few words, they shouldn't feel as fully alive as they do. Set in a forgotten corner of rural Vermont, Go With Me is close to perfect.
In Go with Me, Lillian sits in her old car in the parking lot behind the sheriff's office. Armed with a paring knife, she waits to tell him that Blackaway's after her. He's killed her cat and he's coming after her. The sheriff sends her to the old mill to ask Scottie for help. What she gets isn't him, but an unlikely pair of protectors who set out for the backwoods of the lost towns to find Blackaway and get him to leave her alone.
Go With Me is a short book, but it's full of atmosphere and foreboding. There's not a wasted word in the book and each character is fully fleshed out in so few words, they shouldn't feel as fully alive as they do. Set in a forgotten corner of rural Vermont, Go With Me is close to perfect.
ivegotnoshelfcontrol's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
enelvee's review against another edition
3.0
Not bad. I found the clipped Vermonter dialogue annoying, but I understand that's appropriate to the setting.
bunnieslikediamonds's review against another edition
3.0
A short, darkly humorous tale about some colorful backwoods Vermonters out to get a local thug. A fun, quick read, but not that memorable.
lisalotte's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
2.5
pattieod's review against another edition
4.0
This has to be one of the shortest novels (novellas?) I've ever read - finished it off in an hour or two. It reads like Elmore Leonard if he lived in backwoods New England instead of Detroit, so if you enjoy Leonard's good-old-boys-having-stupid-conversations black humor, you'll enjoy this.
cinnamuscles's review
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
wendoxford's review against another edition
2.0
2 star = OK wasn't exactly what I thought. This is a very odd book - flecks of comedy, against a violent canvas of a woman out to get the town's bad guy (really bad guy)who, even the sheriff, won't pursue
ohlookanowl's review against another edition
5.0
Castle Freeman Jr blew me away with his gorgeously quiet and atmospheric novel set in rural Vermont. His characters and his ear for dialogue are superb. There's a lot going on under the surface of this deceptively short novel. Go read it. Now. (Immediately after reading this one, I picked up Go With Me, which was just as good, though in a very different manner.)