Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel
by Fannie Flagg
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Read in January, 1993
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Flagg's heroine Daisy Fay Harper (who cannot abide being called after a vase of flowers) tells her own story through diary enteries from when she is 11, 15 and 18. They are, for the most part, believably written. Especially the 11-year-old entries (most of hte book) skip around according to what Daisy feels is important (food, her hatred of Kay Bob Benson, her Daddy). Daisy's depictions of her home life are especially affecting as told by Daisy - who sees nothing wrong with the problems that wou...more
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is a coming-of-age story set in Mississippi in the 1950s. The story is told in diary entries (which I love) and follows Daisy from age 11 until after she finishes high school. Daisy is a spunky character who has to put up with a completely dysfunctional family, including an alcoholic father. There are all kinds of interesting characters involved including a crippled girl, a man with elphantiasis, an albino woman, Daisy's best friend Pickle, and Daisy's arch-nemes...more
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Read in December, 2005
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is a touchingly funny story written by Fannie Flagg. Daisy Fay Harper keeps a journal chronicling all of her adventures from the time she is 11 to when she wins the Miss Mississippi pageant. She's a tomboy sort of girl with a Dennis-the-Menace type penchant for getting herself into trouble. She doesn't mean to, it just seems to happen. Her father is an alcoholic ne'er-do-well with lots of grandiose ideas. The kooky locals in the story are lovable, partic...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Haaaaaated it! I don't understand the inspiration behind this book (or, shall I say, the lack thereof?) For starters, what would possess a person to write a book about "white trash" in the first place? Secondly, why do her critics call it "side-splittingly funny" and "sheer, unbeatable entertainment"? I didn't miss the attempted humor...I just found this book to be morally degrading and not all that funny. Some parts caused me to wonder why on earth someone wou...more
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Read in July, 2008
This was a fun read. I especially enjoyed the first half of the book when Daisy Fay is eleven. Her view of the world was a lot of fun to read. The last half wasn't quite as captivating but it was interesting to see the person Daisy Fay was becoming and how she was getting there.
According to the cover, the book was originally published as "Coming Attractions." This title isn't really appropriate but it catchier than the original, I guess. Either way, forget the title and enjoy the s...more
According to the cover, the book was originally published as "Coming Attractions." This title isn't really appropriate but it catchier than the original, I guess. Either way, forget the title and enjoy the s...more
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Read in December, 2007
This novel revolves around Daisy Fay Harper and her accounts of her every day world in the south in the 50's. The book is very interestingly written from her point of view during two different times in her life. Being a Southern Gal living in the North I loved this book. I felt it was so accurate and wonderfully written and I felt it really did depict the south as it really was in the past. Daisy is such a quirky character but also so believable. I liked this 10 times better than Fried Green Tom...more
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Probably one of my favorite books ever. It's one of my comfort books, along with Anne of Green Gables, that I can go back to time and time again and never get bored by it. It's full of southern charm and wit. Fannie Flagg is a wonderful storyteller and while I love all of her books this is the one I would give to people first. THis stroy follows Daisy from a young age all the way into adulthood. (I actually think it's semi-autobiogrpahical.) It's a great summer read.
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ahhhhh really makes you feel 9 all over again, but with the hindsight of 27 odd years. I have to thank Ashley profusely for this one. I wish I'd had the pleasure of reading them when I WAS bout 9! Makes me share a part of her childhood knowing Ashley read these as a girl. It also really makes me understand another little part of her. Books can so profoundly open up your soul if you pick them up at the right times, I've never had that affect watching TV :P
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Read in September, 2007
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Fannie Flagg is a brilliantly funny, authentic writer. If you ever read "Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistle Stop Cafe" or saw the movie, you will surely like this one too.
It is a highly entertaining account of the formative years of a very down to eart girl growing up in Coastal Mississippi in the 50's. Great characterization! The writing style is unique and is as though Daisy were simply have a conversation with you. Most enjoyable. Give it a try!
It is a highly entertaining account of the formative years of a very down to eart girl growing up in Coastal Mississippi in the 50's. Great characterization! The writing style is unique and is as though Daisy were simply have a conversation with you. Most enjoyable. Give it a try!
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Read in January, 1993
I vividly remember reading this book during my god-awful typing class freshman year of high school. I was surrounded by a lot of freaks, but when I started giggling at the scene where Daisy Fay is galloping past a army convoy on an out-of-control horse after she lost her bikini top, they looked at me like I was the freak.
By far my favorite of Flagg's books, and probably one of my favorite laugh-out-loud books.
By far my favorite of Flagg's books, and probably one of my favorite laugh-out-loud books.
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Read in January, 2008
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I debated on whether to give this 3 or 4 stars. I did enjoy the book. Fannie Flagg is a brilliant writer. I loved her writing style in this book. I believed I was reading an 11 year old's journal, and then a 15 year old's and a 17 year old's. I did laugh, but after awhile I felt so bad for Daisy Fay's situation that I couldn't laugh anymore. However I had to keep reading and find out what would happen next!!
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This is one of the most hysterical books I have ever read. It is written with such an honest perspective that you just know that some of the anticdotes were taken from real life. Daisy Fay Harper is a spunky, sassy girl from the Mississippi gulf region. This book follows her from 11 years of age through young adulthood, and every step of the way is filled with hilarious situations.
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Read in May, 1994
Years ago, this book got me back into reading! And I have never laughed so hard, for so long, reading a book! Daisy is charming and blunt. life through her eyes and ears gives this story an innocent nostalgia akin to "a christmas story" by jean s. I found it hard to put down... and I have to admit, I was bit sad when it ended. I've always hoped we'd revisit Daisy in a sequel.
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I have read this book so many times that the cover fell away long ago, regardless I refuse to let it out of my grasp. Somehow the reading and re-reading of this book aided in shaping my own childhood and teen years just as I read along with Daisy's. It is a wonderful, easy read. Almost the younger and original Bridget Jones Diary... but white trash and set in the south ;-).
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Read in October, 1996
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fans of "Fried Green Tomatoes",southern fiction
By the author of "Fried Green Tomatoes," Fannie Flagg offers another Southern Classic about young Daisy Fay growing up on the rural beaches of Florida. A member of the junior debutantes with a dad intent on making a fortune by staging a "miracle," Daisy Fay chronicles her life through her diary from her childhood up through her exploits in a 1960's Miss America pageant.
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I think this is one of my all time favorite books! I have read it so, so, so many times over the last 15 years of my life. I always take it to the hospital when I'm having a baby with my favorite passages marked so my husband can read them out loud when I need a little "boost". It is so hilarious...I laugh every time I read it...hysterical, out- loud laughing! Love it!
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I'm not sure, this may have been Flagg's first book, and I think that when I first read it the title was different, but I loved this book. Daisy Fay is a true original, trying to get by in a world she finds confusing, because as she often finds, people don't always tell children the truth.
I lost track of the number of times I laughed out loud during this book.
I lost track of the number of times I laughed out loud during this book.
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Read in June, 2008
This book is at once funny and sad. It is written as a diary of a young girl, Daisy Fay growing up in the South with clearly dysfunctional parents--at least clear to every one else but her. Daisy Fay's spunky personality and childlike insights are engaging but the plot was not as intriguing as other Fannie Flagg books and was a little too predictable.
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I haven't read this book in years, but I read it numerous times and remember how it made me laugh out lout and almost pee my pants. Flagg mastered the "quirky" character long before "quirky" characters were in (authors now seem driven to litter their novels with quirky people-- and their only purpose is to do quirky things-- annoying).
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