Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: original post here.
I read this for book club, and I liked it. The vignettes I mentioned that fill the first half of the book I found to be more enjoyable than the second half, which is composed mostly of the legal side of things. Which I should find interesting, shouldn't I? But it just wasn't as colorful as all the background.
This is a short, rather plotless tale of two men having a conversation. The white man, we come to discover, is a professor who just tried to commit suicide. The black man is a formerly drug-addicted ex-con who's made it his life's work to try to help other people like him. They debate life and religion and reason. It's a short book and an easy read, but one that I've come back to several times since I finished it.
HBO did a movie version (trailer) of The Sunset Limited starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Haven't seen it, but if I do I'll let you know.
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