Inherently readable

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I am about as different from Sean of the South as one can be. I am a Yankee on the very liberal end of the political spectrum. I call myself a “cultural Catholic” but really I am an atheist who was occasionally raised Catholic. I have also lived on the panhandle of Florida and central Alabama, as well as rural North Carolina, and spent a year of childhood in Georgia being forced to attend a baptist church. I found the book very readable and I did laugh and cry. However, Sean relies too much on lazy hyperbole. His description of Catholicism was exactly how you might expect a fundamentalist southerner to describe it. Sean should stick to what he knows. That said, I enjoyed large parts of the book, especially the descriptions of parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and DC that I am familiar with. I appreciated his musings on nature and the exploration of his marriage.