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    Killer Diller
    Killer Diller
    Killer Diller
    Audiobook8 hours

    Killer Diller

    Written by Clyde Edgerton

    Narrated by C. J. Critt and Norman Dietz

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Shuttled among orphanages and foster homes since he was 11, Wesley Benfield-newly converted-is trying to turn over a new leaf. But two things are keeping him from a straight-and-narrow kind of existence: lust for Phoebe and a National Steel Dobro bottleneck guitar. There's more than one way for an ungainly white boy to find a little soul, and Wesley strikes out on his own path of redemption.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 2, 2011
    ISBN9781461810209
    Killer Diller

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    • 2/5
      This is Edgerton's typical humorous North Carolina (NC) novel. The book follows, Wesley, a twenty-something guy living in a half-way house after a few arrests and jail time. He is in Summerlin, NC on the edge of a Christian college campus. The twin brothers who are president and dean of the Christian college decide to start Project Promise. The idea of this project is to pair a member of the half-way house with a student or young person in town that has mental handicaps, and the person from the half-way house is supposed to teach a skill to the person with mental handicaps.Wesley loves music and is in a band with other members and former members of the half-way house. Wesley becomes friends with his mentally handicapped partner from Project Promise and lets him join their band. It's not the most interesting plot ever, but it's supposed to be a funny and light-hearted, small town NC kind of book.I did not find this to be funny as I did the previous Clyde Edgerton books I have read. I am not sure if my sense of humor has changed or this book just wasn't that good, but I think it's a combination of the two. The last time I read Edgerton was in high school, so I think my sense of humor has changed since then.There were a lot of jarring things that are mentioned in this book. Wesley has a sexual fixation on a girl living across the street from the half-way house and feels the need to tell both her and other characters in the book about his past bodily/medical malfunctions while they are on a date or eating in a diner.Both black and white characters say and think racial slurs about one another in the book. The way the two black characters are portrayed in the book is nothing but stereotypes. I am not sure how to feel about the racial slurs and portrayal of people of color in this book. If the book was trying to have a serious discussion of racial issues and used racial slurs as examples or to make a point then I think I would be okay with it. But when a white man from the South uses racial slurs and stereotypes about black people in a Southern novel that is supposed to be a humorous, light-hearted fun book, it's unsettling to say the least. Yes, including racism is being accurate to the South but I don't feel that it belongs in what is supposed to be a light-hearted, humorous novel that is focused on the antics and trouble a guy in a half-way house gets himself into.The twin brothers and a lot of the other high-level staff that work at the Christian college are portrayed more accurately I think. They are hypocritical, self-serving, superficial, shady, wanna-beat-my-way-to-the-top-but-not-have-anyone-know-it types. The book is very typical NC in this fashion because there are some hypocritical Bible-thumping people in the South. The small town setting, the dialect the characters use, the food they eat, etc. is all very NC. So readers that aren't familiar with the South or with NC may not understand some of this or be able to really appreciate those details. I thought these were the most accurate and best parts of the book since I had issues with the characterization, plot, etc.This book was a disappointment after the laugh aloud funny books I remember Raney and Walking Across Egypt being in high school. Although, who knows how I would feel about those books now.I can't recommend Killer Diller.
    • 4/5
      Having read Walking Across Egypt, I knew that this would be a funny, touching novel. On the back cover blurb, it references "cornpone" characters, but I found the characters true to life, and the social analysis is on target as well. Highly enjoyable!I wrote the above before reading the comments about it being a racist novel. I have to say i am very puzzled that anyone would find it racist. Perhaps the concern was in the portrayal of Shanita, the young black woman who resents the white people around her and calls them names inside her head. I found her a rather sympathetic character, and felt that what we were seeing was s young woman who would mature over time and whose portrayal was realistic. Her thinking is not nuanced, but that seemed an accurate characterization. When my brother saw me reading this book, her said, "Oh, that's a great book," and that is from someone who reads only a few books a year, if that. Our mother gave it to him when he was young and I can think of at least one other person I would like to share this book with.