In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

by Jean Shepherd
Category: "Autobiographies, Memoirs and Biographies"
Pages:264
Year of Publication:1966
Date Added:05/13/2014
Date Read:02/14/2015
Notes:This is the book Christmas Story was based on. It's presented as a memoir of Ralphie returning to hometown of Hohman, Indiana, in the industrial north. He meets his old friend Flick, now a bartender, and the two reminisce about the old days. Chapters on the Christmas he got the BB gun, the leg lamp and a fight made it into the movie. Other chapters on the local movie theater, school, fishing with his dad, etc. did not.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

Review - In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash

Enjoyable, but not great. Shepherd's writing style is over-the-top and I found myself tuning out during long, descriptive paragraphs then having to read them over again, only to discover they really didn't advance the story much. It was set in the 1930s, during the Depression, and that aspect was interesting.

Reviewed by Roger on 2015-02-14 10:24:34

Back to the list