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(More customer reviews)Prior to reading all 500 pages of Bob Pearson's "Stinky's Tales", I had nearly dismissed as a choice reading for entertainment. The book returned me to a period when I found time to read instead of watching television. It returned me to a time of my youth, of growing up in the same little town in Upstate New York in which Pearson was reared. What he wrote was true to the letter regarding the feelings and closeness of the community during those years...years which I shall never forget and characters to whom he made reference that I also will not
forget. It was truly difficult to put the book down until I had finished reading it in its entirety, looking forward after each section to the next.
I would like to offer this correction to one reference made in the book regarding a young lad who had run over a girl with his boat following a water skiing outing. The young lad(four years her junior) was greatly enamored of the young lady to whom he referred and was on his way to pay her a visit, when she unexpectedly dived into the water from a raft and directly under his approaching boat, breaking the skeg off the lower unit of the engine as it cut her outer thigh to the bone. The young lad was scared to death but jumped into the water and towed her to shore to awaiting adult hands. I was that young lad! But, what he said regarding her willingness to reveal her battle scars to others was indeed true. Read it for yourself and enjoy all the
shenanigans and colorful characters of the time and the inciteful remarks made by Pearson in comparing the values of bygone years to those of the present.
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The book, "Stinky's Tales" describes in short, mini-chapters,one hundred and sixty episodes involving Bob, his family, friends and teachers in a variety of growing-up experiences.The tales are humorous and often contrast sharply with trends seen today in family school and community life. Bob and his friends travel along from the early 1940's to the point in time when they graduate from Sodus Central School. It is interesting to note the number of teachers that came out of the student body in the rural school over time. As the reader travels along with "Stinky" and his associates many things will become very clear. Values evident sixty years ago are absent today.Read along and make your conclusions.
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