First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Delightful, easy to read, light-hearted but with sharp insight into human nature. Father Steve's small town church is rolling along peacefully, but boringly, when a large family of Pentecostals moves in not far away, intent on building a large church and pulling in all the locals. This is war. On top of Father Steve's current frustrations (he's not gay), comes Vicky, the child of the former priest at this little church, and Mark, a gay priest from another local church, who quits the priesthood and moves in with Father Steve temporarily. Festivals are already heaped on top of each other in this part of Louisiana -- any excuse to drink and party is welcome. What to do? How about The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival? With elephant and rabbits. The whole shebang. Carnies running rides, games, food, beer. The irreverent and often-drunk Father Steve delegates the work to others and proves useless in most situations except his resolve to stop the Pentecostals from taking all his parishioners. Join in the confusion and fun! Lively writing. This book is stupid, I can't believe it even got published. I really hate to read and this just made me hate it even more. According to my teacher Mr.Holden "literature" is supposed to challenge us, entertain us, make us think. But, it was pointless of reading to me. If it wasn't for a grade i would have changed book along time ago. The ending of the book wasn't understanding to me at all. After i did all that reading and then he had to leave Grand Prairie, leave behind Father Steve and Miss Rita and St. Peter's and everything else on those pages that wasn't understandable. Just a waist of time.Some of the book was funny though. Like for instance how the priest kept saying "fuck" a lot of the time. When i first seen that, that made me think that he was the perfect definition of situational irony.Actually that is the only thing funny about the book. The book should have had some other people who where humorous so that way ui could have been interested nd had somthing to laugh at because if the priest wasn't in the book then the book would have been all around boring.What made the book boring to me is the fact that everything seemed so normal. It seemed more like a biography than a story you would want to tell somebody. Another thing, im not Catholic but im pretty sure that if people who are Catholic read the book they will bee offended. i dont want to be the one who gives away everything so i wont tell you why it may have been offensive you will have to go and get the book and read it yourself. The author of the book had a slow pace. It was alot of reading about nothing important before he had even got to Grand Prairie. The journey to Grand Prairie should have at least been interesting so that when he left in the end it would have been kind have reasonable because most of the book came from the journey there. But since everything interesting was supposed to had happen in Grand Prairie (which was not interesting at all) caused the story to seem slow and boring.The book is not interesting to me because there is nothing about the book that i could relate to. It was mostley about catholic people and i dont anything about them or their culture so i couldnt get a feel for the book. The only thing that i could relate to is the cursing priest.The book The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival is a horrible book in my opinion. the best thing about it is that it has some funny parts. But i recomend that you do not spend your money this book.
What do You think about First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival (2009)?
I laughed so hard reading this book. A wonderful story.
—Yazzy
Just plain fun ... Very heart-warming ...
—heather
