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As Tell It Right's post 38 (above) points out, the people who come from there, for all its grinding poverty, do not want to leave. They are attached to their extended families and their home. Depending where one lives, there are few places in the U.S. as beautiful as the Appalachians and surrounding piedmonts.
My wife watched it on Netflix last night and really liked it. I’m out of town and didn’t join her. I’ll watch it myself soon.
Ordered the book. It is discounted for Prime Days, but Amazon would only let me order one
I would have ordered a DVD, too, if one was available.
Watched it last night. Interesting, but depressing. After showing a horrendous childhood, it fails to show him succeeding as an adult. A lot of profanity.
Your usual excellent synopsis!
This thread explains why it set off the left, which owns publishing in this country; so maybe you will give it a second chance.
“Anything by Ron Howard is probably not worth your time. It’s probably hateful and slanderous to the right knowing Ron’s leftwing politics.”
You’re absolutely right. “Apollo 13” was a terrible, hateful anti-American screed.
Already impressed with what Vance had to go through to get to where he is today.
I recall reading the book jacket, which is where the author's bio is usually found, and being astounded at how far he had come—as of then.
Thank you for your excellent commentary on Vance’s book “hillbilly elegy“. Iyou
have expressed what I think about the book so much better than I can. I read the book several years ago with a group that included some liberals. Everyone liked it back then. It would be interesting to know what they would say now.
Another book that every American middle school child should read is Ben Carson‘s “Gifted Hands”. It is inspirational and so much better than the movie. The movie is hardly worth a look. Carson, unlike Vance, had a very good mother, though she was poor and illiterate. She was hard-working and guided her boys to become upstanding adults.
A better book on the Appalachian migration is “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb.
Do not pan it for that reason, give the book a chance.
My father-in-law’s family lived in that area for several years in the 1930s. The house had a dirt floor, and food was difficult to come by. I do not know why they moved from Michigan to that region, maybe living there was less expensive. They moved back to Michigan for auto industry employment.
Talking to my husband’s southern Ohio cousins was fun. Wish we could see them again.
I have seen it. I thought it was a good movie. It gives you a good look into how drug addiction can wreck lives.
As it happens, the Obama admin had special plans for the people of Appalachia, many of whom Obama and the Dems considered problematic because in general they are being obstinate about accepting welfare, etc.
Touche
It is on my shelf, read several times and copiously underlined, as is How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman, which is also great background about the Ulster Scots migration into the U.S. And let's not forget Thomas Sowell's incisive Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
“wreck lives”
And wreck the family and loved ones around the addict.
Watching it this weekend.
The movie views very slow. For a better sense read the book.
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