Talk:Hillbilly Elegy

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Feeding trash? Covering with gasoline?[edit]

I am listening to this book now. I don't believe that J.D..'s grandparents fed HIM trash and I am quite certain that they did not cover him in gasoline. Both of these incidents, I believe, were things done by his grandmother to his grandfather.--98.166.244.182 (talk) 01:44, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're quite right. I corrected those errors. I also tried to give the curious reader of this article a sense that this is not a sociological tract, but a devastating autobiography. Profhum (talk) 22:46, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article didn't imply that the author's grandparents fed him trash, nor did the source material for the paraphrase. czar 23:01, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

I removed this list of references from the External links section, per WP:ELNO and WP:NOT DIRECTORY. I include them below solely for the potential purpose of expanding/improving this article, realizing however that most are probably largely redundant. --Animalparty! (talk) 02:20, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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