Just finished watching "Where the Crawdads Sing" on Netflix. One of the best movies I have

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7. I really disliked the movie and the book

I am strongly biased against this unhinged fiction. I grew up in the time and place it is set. Nothing about the story, the setting, or the times are true. It was so awful, it could not be filmed in where it was supposedly set. Nowhere in NC looks like what the book describes.

The species described are a hodgepodge of fresh and saltwater, mostly from other regions.

Hurricane Hazel in 1954 would have wiped clean (>95%) the islands and shorelines along this fictional locale along with the real ones.

The coast of NC is not a day trip from Asheville, not now and certainly not in the 1950s.

The "hills" in Greenville, NC are a laugh; SC, maybe, but wouldn't fit the plot.

British actors playing Southerners -- what is this? Gone with the Wind?

And so much more.


Enjoy the movie, but realize the author seems a fraud. (Maybe worse) The book, a fantasy.