{"id":645,"date":"2006-12-15T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","slug":"book-log-cant-wait-to-get-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Book Log – Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven: A Novel<\/i> by Fannie Flagg<\/p>\n

I think got this book for our beach vacation earlier this year, and as I enjoyed Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel<\/i> and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel<\/i>, I added it to my To Be Read pile.<\/p>\n

I was not terribly engaged by the read, and given that I was engaged by her previous works, I’m curious as to why. I see three possibilities…<\/p>\n

1) Can’t Wait<\/i> just isn’t as good as her previous works.
\n2) I’ve changed as a person since I read the other books about 10 years ago.
\n3) I’ve since read The Rattlesnake Master<\/i>, which is a superior work in the southern-small-town-stories genre.<\/p>\n

I’m inclined to think it’s a combination of the above.<\/p>\n

I can’t understand why Beaufort Cranford doesn’t enjoy the same popularity as Fannie Flagg. Maybe because nobody made a movie of his one book. Possibly because he only wrote one book. , poke him on that, won’t you? Fannie is flagging, somebody’s got to pick up the slack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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