Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife

Touted as fact - theres the humor

Roberts seems to make up most of what she's written without truly knowing those she's written about. She may be a Floridian at heart, and she may have grown up in the it's capital city but the 'facts' she writes about she took from the newspapers. She isn't related to all the people she claims to be and therefore, the book may be enjoyable to those who aren't familiar with Florida, I simply say: believe nothing you read and only half of what you see...

where's the editor?

This is an entertaining book. Roberts can write and knows how to tell a story. I'm a Floridian, via Cork County Ireland, I reckon, and have the same ambivalent feelings about this junked, bipolar and beautiful place. My problems with the book are:the prose is too cute, too ornate, too full of its self. Where is the editor? And also, I can't stand anyone who has a dog in the fight of the Left vs. the Right. Anyone who can't see the Left is just as foolish, blind and destructive as the right, is a hack or an idiot. But it's a very good book and the author should be proud. Outside, it's October in florida, and the heat has finally backed off.

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