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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well-written essays, but not enough of them,
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This review is from: Far-Flung Hubbell:: Essays from the American Road (Hardcover)
I've been a fan of Sue Hubbell since her excellent and much-neglected "Broadsides From The Lower Orders", perhaps the most charming and readable book about, well, bugs ever written. So I was looking forward to this collection of essays. Unfortunately, I can't give it as high a rating as I would have liked. Hubbell's merits are all on display: the warmth, the willingness to dig under the surface, the very mild tongue-in-cheek humor. If you like both Garrison Keillor and John McPhee, you're sure to like Sue Hubbell. But... the darn book is just too short. For a $21 hardcover I expect more than ten or twelve shortish essays. The book runs under two hundred pages in a largish typeface. And while some of the essays are minor classics -- I particularly enjoyed the trip to the magicians' convention -- several are somewhat dated. Journalistic essays on the Michigan Elvis sighting of 1986 and the Missouri earthquake scare of 1990 do not hold the interest as they would have at the time. I recommend Sue Hubbell highly, but not this book. Check out "Broadsides" or her book about raising bees, and wait 'til this one comes out in paperback
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Far-Flung Hubbell:: Essays from the American Road by Sue Hubbell (Hardcover - July 10, 1995)
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