Redneck Riviera

While this book doesn't live up to Salvation on Sand Mountain, it remains a fascinating narrative. Covington proves himself to authentically insane, but the true situation is weird to the point of theatrical. I've actually started looking at the property in question on Google Map's satellite view. Thi......more

I really liked this book. It was interesting enough that I didn't quit and put it down before the end. Seriously, I drop lots of books after starting them, because I decide they are a waste of time. The ending isn't all happy and lovely, it's just life. Usually that might bug me in a story (I like ev......more

Written with delightfully wry southern delivery, Covington relates the story of his inheritance of a landlocked piece of useless Florida real estate. His father had been the victim of one of those Florida swampland scams and he left the property to the author as a kind of adventurous bequest. The as......more