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Roy Makes a Car by Mary E. Lyons, Terry Widener

swe3tp_reads's review

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3.0

Loved the dialectic. Loved the lesson of "you can do anything you put your mind to and it may even impress God"

faeriedrumsong's review

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5.0

well, the brilliantly written first page is about as quintessentially american tall tale as it can get! "he can grease an axle faster than you can say 'carburetor,' and he can clean spark plugs just by looking at them hard." HA

for fans of the outlandish style of tall tales, this is a winner with its modern twist. Some people, if they are very dogmatically religious, may take umbrage with the idea that Roy sold God a car, that God pays for with money, and that *then* God made cars just like Roy, but come on, its a tall tale.
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