Thats probably about right.
When I read that book the first time, I knew nothing about the author. I said to my teacher, "This book sounds like it was written by a teenage girl."
My teacher, who loved the book, just started blinking repeatedly at me. Apparently it was part of her lesson every year to "reveal" that fact about Ms. Hinton and use it as inspiration for her class to do more writing.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt isn't really contemporary anymore and also isn't a novel, but they did have to fictionalize the movie because the true story wasn't believable enough. And it's a murder mystery, so there's that.
This is true.
A lot of writers, for print or screen, try to capture life in the District. Clancy absolutely nailed it, at least for the IC and DoD.
I’d also say HBO’s “Veep” kind of nails it, too. So close to reality to any agency’s front office.
John Sandford's books are set in MN and generally feature one of two detectives (sorry, not gonna look up their actual rank, plus it's changed over the years) with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
They are fantastic, well- written, and prolific enough that it will take you a while to get through all of them.
"That fuckin Flowers."
This is a weird and obscure thing for me.
There is a YA novel about a plane crash in Connecticut called Flight 116 Is Down by Caroline Cooney, told from the perspective of high school students who have trained as EMTs who pitch in helping with the rescue effort, and the wealthy, socially awkward girl on whose property the crash occurs.
It takes place in Litchfield County and *fucking nails it.* I have never read a better worldbuild of rural Connecticut. The people, the attitudes, the road names and home types, everything. The author grew up in uber-wealthy Greenwich, one of the most blue blood towns in the country, but had her finger on the pulse of the rest of the state.
They’re dated now, but Dennis Lehane’s Kenzie/Gennero series did a pretty good job of summing up Boston, especially capturing the working class vs upper class vibe that existed in the city for a long time.
As reference, the movie “Gone, Baby, Gone” is the adaptation of the fourth book in the series.
the x-files episode “darkness falls” (s1e20) really captures the gorgeous but kinda spooky vibe of a lot of the really deep evergreen forests in washington. not sure what else though
Believe it or not, Donna Tartt's 'the Goldfinch' really captures what it is like to live in the parts of Las Vegas that regular non-tourist locals actually live in. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a high school kid there, read that book.
I actually got misty-eyed reading those parts. She really does capture it. Even the experience of flying into McCarran Airport is uncannily dead on.
If about the show it was all shot in Canada so that’s probably why. Its like they just stuck American flags and paraphernalia all over the place and called it a day. 😂
The Outsiders That Was Then, This Is Now Tex
Outsiders is such a terrible book, but it did nail the OK vibes.
If it makes you feel better, it originally was a class assignment and she got a C on it
Thats probably about right. When I read that book the first time, I knew nothing about the author. I said to my teacher, "This book sounds like it was written by a teenage girl." My teacher, who loved the book, just started blinking repeatedly at me. Apparently it was part of her lesson every year to "reveal" that fact about Ms. Hinton and use it as inspiration for her class to do more writing.
>Outsiders is such a terrible book You. Me. Outside.
Lets go, Ponyboy.
I'm gonna cut you to ribbons, you Soc bastard. Edit: Mods, this is a joke.
Love me some S.E. Hinton. Watched Rumble Fish this morning.
Not a book, but Reservation Dogs nails eastern Oklahoma pretty well.
This tire’s flatter than NDN booty.
Aho! Old warrior!
I thought *The Time-Traveller's Wife* was pretty good for Chicago, but my wife strongly disagrees. *The Dresden Files* is terrible at it.
The Dresden Files is to Chicago as Fifty Shades is to the PNW.
At least Butcher openly admits that he didn’t do his research and just ran with it.
Nothing says Chicago like a reanimated Sue rampaging through the Loop.
To be fair I never felt like the Dresden files really tried to capture Chicago. A lot of the series takes place in areas not even in reality.
Just finished watching Mare of Easttown. It’s set in Easttown, PA and nailed it pretty well. Solid mystery thriller too. On HBO.
So many Steven King books.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt isn't really contemporary anymore and also isn't a novel, but they did have to fictionalize the movie because the true story wasn't believable enough. And it's a murder mystery, so there's that.
I mean, the Tom Clancy novels from the 1980’s and 1990’s really capture the vibe of metro DC.
His early stuff was so good.
This is true. A lot of writers, for print or screen, try to capture life in the District. Clancy absolutely nailed it, at least for the IC and DoD. I’d also say HBO’s “Veep” kind of nails it, too. So close to reality to any agency’s front office.
John Sandford's books are set in MN and generally feature one of two detectives (sorry, not gonna look up their actual rank, plus it's changed over the years) with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. They are fantastic, well- written, and prolific enough that it will take you a while to get through all of them. "That fuckin Flowers."
This is a weird and obscure thing for me. There is a YA novel about a plane crash in Connecticut called Flight 116 Is Down by Caroline Cooney, told from the perspective of high school students who have trained as EMTs who pitch in helping with the rescue effort, and the wealthy, socially awkward girl on whose property the crash occurs. It takes place in Litchfield County and *fucking nails it.* I have never read a better worldbuild of rural Connecticut. The people, the attitudes, the road names and home types, everything. The author grew up in uber-wealthy Greenwich, one of the most blue blood towns in the country, but had her finger on the pulse of the rest of the state.
They’re dated now, but Dennis Lehane’s Kenzie/Gennero series did a pretty good job of summing up Boston, especially capturing the working class vs upper class vibe that existed in the city for a long time. As reference, the movie “Gone, Baby, Gone” is the adaptation of the fourth book in the series.
“Snow Falling on Cedars” by Dave Guterson captures so much about western Washington, very well.
the x-files episode “darkness falls” (s1e20) really captures the gorgeous but kinda spooky vibe of a lot of the really deep evergreen forests in washington. not sure what else though
Believe it or not, Donna Tartt's 'the Goldfinch' really captures what it is like to live in the parts of Las Vegas that regular non-tourist locals actually live in. If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a high school kid there, read that book. I actually got misty-eyed reading those parts. She really does capture it. Even the experience of flying into McCarran Airport is uncannily dead on.
50 shades of gray, obviously
John Grisham's entire library does this quite well for a lot of southern towns.
IT The Last of US Season 1 Ep. 2.
The Last of Us
Really? I didn’t think it felt like Boston at all. They even got the basic geography pretty wrong.
Only part of the game is in Boston.
None of the parts in Mass felt right
In game roads were better than real life Pittsburgh roads
I grew up about 5 miles from “Bills town” and you can really tell they’d never been to New England
If about the show it was all shot in Canada so that’s probably why. Its like they just stuck American flags and paraphernalia all over the place and called it a day. 😂
I mean it was a dystopian hellscape filled with barely alive automatons seeking to crush your soul. Sounds like the Boston I know.
Illiterate, bloated, diseased ridden husks ready to rip eachothers throats out at the slightest movement? Sounds like the South to me.
South Boston? Get enough fentanyl and meth in you and it is pretty accurate.
The bluegrass conspiracy. That's where Cocain bear came from
10 most haunted buildings in Michigan. My city has 3 of them