This 1992 book was mentioned in a recent Washington Post article on the resurgence of front porches (were they ever really “gone”?). The cover’s nice and, after all, how could a book about front porches be bad?

It is.

The pictures are bland, many faux-sepia toned, and the “content” consists of an awful foreword and a bunch of quotes from other books that somehow—sometimes only very loosely—relate to porches. If it was written today, I would have assumed someone Googled “porch quotes” and just used the result to cut-and-paste in this book.

A total waste of time.