What readers think of All Over But The Shoutin', plus links to write your own review.

First of all, it's unfortunate that the reader that left the "Unknown" message obviously did not read the book very well because he wrote plenty about the suffering of the colored, not that the book is even about that, but if that is all you can think about, RACE, then that's your opinion.

RIck Bragg did a terrific job on this book

We are reading this book in my college English class, and the class is thoroughly enjoying this book. We've come to understand how his mother has struggled for her kids; she’d sacrificed so much for her 4 boys. Before anyone objects she did have 4. This was not the story of the South in that particular time frame; it was the story of his family and of his life. I appreciate Rick Bragg telling his story the way he did. It took a lot of guts to let out that much family pain and struggle. It was a great book. Mrs. Garcia's Eng 095 class is highly appreciative of this book because a lot of the older people in my class really lived like that and can share their experiences with us first hand. So I give this book a 4 for its harsh reality check.

I read this book for a school book project, and quite honestly it was very hard to pull quotes from and apply to life. Sure, it is a very touching story about a poor boy growing up in the South and following his journalistic dreams, but I would rather have read it for fun than have struggled trying to pull substance from it. I would definitely recommend it for book clubs, though.

I liked this book for the most part. some parts of it i couldn't take my eyes off. there were also some parts that i couldn't keep up with because of the jumping around the writer does.

I have to agree that the book was a little hard to follow at times the way he jumped from subject to subject, but it also tells a good story. There were parts in the book where I couldnt put it down, however, there were also parts where it took all I could to read to the bottom of the page. Interesting lifestyle. It really pulls the reader in ....as I read it I wished I could have been there to help.

I started off enthralled by this book but lost interest midway through it. I admired his Mother and I was especially fond of his eldest brother. However, I feel as a reporter Mr. Bragg owed us some background on his father. I also noticed that there were almost no references to his younger brother, Mark. Mr. Bragg wonders aloud at the demons that haunt his younger sibling. Perhaps those demons are from a lifetime of indifference from the men in his family. Ignored by his older brothers and abandoned by his father, his only solace was the grasping neediness of his mother. The only part of the book I enjoyed were the parts involving his Mother, and I could have done without the almost constant crowing about the fact that he paid for his mother's house. That was a good thing, but we didn't need to read about it over and over again. Get over yourself, Mr. Bragg.

I think Rick Bragg gives his spineless mother far too much credit for where life has taken him. In my eyes, she did not deserve to be revered, but to be resented for allowing so much suffering and instability in her children's lives. I had a difficult time reading this book because I continued to wonder what points I was missing or what I was not understanding about why this woman should be so honored. Overall, though, it was an interesting book to read, and well-written.

This is the worst book I have read in quite some time. I finally just gave up about page 250.

He is a horribe hyprcite. He constantly talks about "yankees" and "whites" in a deragatory form.

Generalizations are never okay.