re: #54 iceweasel

Excellent, I’ll add that to my list (along with the others you’ve mentioned before). I’m getting great recs from you and others here.

I remember reading an article ages ago involving snakehandlers, and it did involve a murder or an attempted murder I think….or maybe just deaths from handling the snakes? I wonder if it’s the same one? How many could there be? I’ve always been fascinated by this practice.
Anyway this book looks great. Thanks!

Yes. Covington wrote about the trial for the NYT, and that series of articles started him working on the book. At one point he handled snakes himself, to see what it was like. He was also in a PBS documentary, as I recall. But the book is really primo. Memorable stuff.