Review: Fixin' to make you laugh...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2012
Bubba seems to get himself in trouble at every turn.  When he gets home from a rough day, er, night at work where he should have been fixin' cars instead of manning the register, he finds a dead woman in his backyard.  And not any old dead woman but his ex-fiance.  While Bubba is standing there in shock, trying to figure out what to do, the realtor that has been trying to buy his mother's land with her run down house on it to make a SuperWalmart (of course) makes a call to the Sheriff's Department to report the dead body.  Of course, the Sheriff comes down, figures out that Bubba is the only person in town who knew the recently departed, and decides then and there that Bubba musta done it.I wasn't sure of this book at first, I will say.  But, it had me laughing.  I loved the language, as anyone who has even lived in the south will recognize words that don't exist anywhere else, as well as how people say things.  The author captured this very well.  No matter what Bubba does, he seems to just get himself into more trouble, bruising up probably every part of his body at some time.  And when suspicion might be able to cast in another direction, something else happens to just make it worse for him.  I think my favorite was the scene with the hole.  While there are many different holes discussed being dug up on the property, that one particular part was just too much.  The characters all stand by themselves, and I would love to see more of what happens in this little town.I apparently read the revised version, so I didn't notice too many of the "glaring" errors notated by others.  However, what I did notice was spelling done in such a way to create the language, such as ifin or fella.  What I loved was the fact that this book didn't just use words from every day language, and I found a lot of big words I would never find in other books.  Great play on extremes.