Delta Wedding Audiobook

" I read about 2/3 of this book but had to call it quits. This is the first time I've read Eudora Welty, whose photography I love. She writes beautifully, but it wasn't enough to hold my attention. Maybe I've read too much Southern writing recently, but I felt that I was drowning amid too many characters and too little action. I believe this was her first novel so maybe that explains it. In any case, I would be interested to read her other work (perhaps just short stories, though!) "

" Eudora Welty has without a doubt a gift for words. She captures moments and brings them to life through the written word. What she cannot do is craft a story that flows. She should have written poetry, and left prose to those minions who know how to write simple dialog. "

" for a southern girl this was an amazing book. i could feel, hear and smell everything ! at first i had to re-read some of the passages and then decided reading them out loud helped a lot. the whole book felt like i was taken back in time and witnessed the preparations for this wedding, the love the family had for each other and the truly southern ways... "

" I'm a sucker for southern fiction. There is something about it that is really haunting. Eudora Welty is one of my favs. Great book. It's on my recommendation list. "

" This was the most hard to follow book I have ever read. There were so many family members that it was very difficult to remember each one. I kept on having to read back to remember characters. Only two people in our book club finished the book. They didn't have anything really positive to say about it either. "

" Great southern lit. Watch out for complex sentence structure and pronouns without an antecedent. I like the way it looks at family relationships and the way and individual thinks she knows what people are really like. "

" Couldn't get all the way through, prefer her short stories I guess. "

" eudora welty makes me wish we'd never moved away from the delta. and thankful we did. "

" I'm rereading it for my book group. I let myself sink into the language and the characters. It creates a time and way of life. I love the way she captures speech. Not much plot, but I can feel myself there. "

" Read something else, anything else that Eudora's written and it's way better. "

" This book was pretty good. I read it for an English class an it presents an idea of what life was like way back when people still owned plantations and ladies were expected to act proper and all. It wasn't necessarily one of my favorites but it was a pretty interesting read. "

" i can't really get into her but i went to her house on our summer road trip in jackson, ms "

" I started reading this b/c I had not read any of Welty's novels, only short stories. This book was hard for me to get through b/c there was little defined plot, it was a somewhat interesting view of a delta family. I like most of her other work much much better. "

" Good, but Welty's syntax can often be hard to follow. Southern and mysterious, it slowly illustrates the lives and histories in a Southern family through shifting points-of-view. "

" I haven't read any Welty in years and had forgotten how amazing she is. Funny, insightful, and just beautiful writing. "

" I read this book every few years. It is magical, the writing pulls you right into the story and the setting. A genteel family in the delta prepares for a wedding, and a young cousin visits. The writing just sings to you. "

" Southern Gothic purple prose gets no better than this. "

" The works of Welty are some of the most enjoyable reads. "

" horrid experience reading this story that went nowhere "

" Read for Southern Voices-Delta Wedding 9/2006 "

" Just re-read. 'Delta Wedding' is really baller. "

" The Optimist's Daughter. I listened to Welty herself read the book on audio tape and fell in love with her voice and accent and delivery. Then I wanted to read the book itself, which is wonderful, though perhaps improved by hearing it first from her. "