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Title: Hard Rock Just Misses the Mark
Review: Having lived in Tulsa and attended some of the Tar Creek Superfund conferences, I had high expectations of this book, was eager to read it and was prepared to like it. Obviously Mr. Sims has experiences and life history worth sharing. However, in this attempt to tell share some of this history (as historical fiction) his writing appears padded and strained. The characters were caricatures and, while I wanted to care about them, I had difficulty extending that empathy. It seemed that Mr. Sims was aspiring to be Erskine Caldwell-ish; however, he fell short of the mark and Hard Rock is no Tobacco Road.
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