Highland Laddie Gone
Written by Sharyn McCrumb
Narrated by Davina Porter
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Sharyn McCrumb
Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Ballad of Tom Dooley and The Ballad of Frankie Silver. Ghost Riders won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature from the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Audie Award for Best Recorded Book. Named a Virginia Woman of History by the Library of Virginia and a Woman of the Arts by the Daughters of the American Revolution, McCrumb was awarded a merit award by the West Virginia Library Association in 2017 and the Mary Hobson Prize for Arts & Letters in 2014. Her books have been named New York Times and Los Angeles Times Notable Books.
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Reviews for Highland Laddie Gone
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I picked this up at Library because I recognized author's name, but couldn't place it. Ended up skipping-ahead which usually tells me I'm get bored. And, I was. I like the Scot history--it's fantastic. And I liked reading it until I realized I couldn't really tell one character from another--usually one can tell who is talking because you learn the rhythm of their speech pattern but in "Highland Laddie Gone", they all had the same rhythm--even the newly arrived in America from Scotland. The plot idea was goo and the location great, but the necessity to get it over won out and I read the last chapter right after chapter 6. I was still drawn to reading bits here and there since the language was enticing, just not enough to read cover to cover. Perhaps I'll try another of Ms. McCrumb's novels and also see if I can place why her name is familiar.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I picked this up at Library because I recognized author's name, but couldn't place it. Ended up skipping-ahead which usually tells me I'm get bored. And, I was. I like the Scot history--it's fantastic. And I liked reading it until I realized I couldn't really tell one character from another--usually one can tell who is talking because you learn the rhythm of their speech pattern but in "Highland Laddie Gone", they all had the same rhythm--even the newly arrived in America from Scotland. The plot idea was goo and the location great, but the necessity to get it over won out and I read the last chapter right after chapter 6. I was still drawn to reading bits here and there since the language was enticing, just not enough to read cover to cover. Perhaps I'll try another of Ms. McCrumb's novels and also see if I can place why her name is familiar.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A pleasant read, but a disappointing mystery. It relies on someone killing to keep a secret that could not plausibly have survived even this far, and one certainly doomed by its repetition to hundreds of interested buffs.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Elizabeth MacPherson, forensic anthropology grad student and amateur sleuth, continues her mystery-solving adventures among the loony subcultures of the American South. The real attraction of the story is McCrumb's depiction of heritage-mad Scots-Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to "authentically" recreate a mostly imaginary past. It's played mostly for laughs (and they are numerous) but you can see her beginning to play with themes that she'll give serious attention in her more substantial "Ballad Novels." The rest of the book is mostly perfunctory: The mystery is sketchy, the plot has too many loose ends, and few of the characters (Elizabeth included) escape from two-dimensionality for very long. You can see flashes of the writer McCrumb would later become, however, in the deftly sketched character of the sheriff and in a bravura scene where an old man flashes back to his service as a WWII bomber crew member.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I don't think I even finished this one. The tape (I listen to audio) was SOOOOO bad I couldn't even finish it. Didn't break my heart though.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Murder at the annual Glencoe Mountain highland games, in the Appalachians. Elizabeth McPherson investigates. The highland-games setting provides quite a bit of humour, but the mystery is not that exciting, and I find MacPherson irritating. While these mysteries have some funny moments, I don't like them that much. They are okay, but they don't compel me to re-read.