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Tumbleweeds

By: Leila Meacham
Narrated by: Angele Masters
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Devoted fans of Leila Meacham will devour this long, juicy audiobook. Tumbleweeds is the story of three young friends - the saint, the sinner, and the angel - growing up together in the sort of small Texas Panhandle town that lives and dies by its Friday night football games. A fateful event casts a long shadow over these three intertwined lives and leaves the listener desperate to see how it all plays out.

©2012 Leila Meacham (P)2012 Hachette Audio

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80-yr.-old super religious lady writes DUMB book?

I only saw good reviews here. I should have checked Amazon where many reviews list the zillion faults with this book. It was so bad. So very bad. Stilted dialogue, attitudes more suited to the 1940s or '50s--including how the author handles the relationship between two of the two main characters when they are teenagers--and then it's just one improbable, implausible, ridiculous, stupendously stupid situation/event after another well into their adulthoods.

It felt like "Old religious lady goes outside her comfort zone and tries to write a contemporary story, which goes horribly wrong because she is so uncomfortable with anything beyond 1950s ideas, values, morals." I actually have no idea how old the author is, but it seems like it was written by an old woman who is very out-of-touch with the world today.

I rolled my eyes so often, I'm surprised they didn't get stuck.

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I hated two thirds of the story.

I fast forwarded through half of the story. Too much information, unnecessary details and it was just sad and everyone was miserable for the whole book.

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