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    <body><![CDATA[I really love this movie, but as usual, the book is much better and vastly different. In 1985, two women, Ninny and Evelyn, meet and develop a strong friendship. They share treats and conversation while Ninny spins the story of Whistle Stop and its inhabitants, weaving relationships through generati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9148438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel bad saying it, but I think this is a case where I liked the movie better than I liked the book! The movie had its heartbreaking moments, but one was still left with quite a bit of humor and a general feeling of the significance of living life to the fullest. The book featured many more charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38427500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that reminds us of what was once truly great about society, while still facing the worst in it head on.  It mayn't again be found in the community, but it certainly can be found within us, if we choose it.  And in small ways, then, glimpses will be found in our circle and possibly bey...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25993095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always found the movie totally charming, and the book is even more so.  Here we get a lot more of the back story of the Threadgoode family, and Idgie's relationship with Ruth.  The story moves back and forth in time, and it is interspersed with amusing clips from the Whistle Stop newspaper.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Always interesting to read the book after seeing the movie. Especially since I love the movie so much.<br/><br/>I like the book too, though. It's kind of radical in a lot of ways, which is depressing because it was written in the 1980s. Depressing because it's radical in mostly feminist ways an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43656334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is less a review of this famous novel by Fanny Flagg, and more a tribute. One day I was at the library and there was a bookstall. I picked up this copy of ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ for fifty cents and was glad I did. <br/><br/>I had seen the movie twice, but that was some time ago. It’s on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79407904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've seen this movie more times than I can count, though I've only read the book twice.  It's most likely weird sounding, but I loved each of them in different ways.  The movie because of the portrayal of the characters, and how it all played out on the screen (Evelyn and Ninny were just such wonder...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53692462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</em> is both funny and heartbreakingly brutal; I found myself laughing and crying (hard). It starts off with middle-aged housewife Evelyn Couch meeting an old woman named Ninny Threadgoode in the nursing home where her mother-in-law is living, and Mrs. Thread...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58438477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I got into this book and realised what it was going to be like/what it was about I prepared to hate it – this is going to be folksy, sentimental, rose-tinted – in fact I loved it. I didn’t find it meandering – it is very cleverly constructed, following different story lines at different...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41295144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fried Green Tomatoes was one of my favorite movies.  I think everyone wanted to be like Idgie Threadgoode back then; carefree, independent, strong, and determined.<br/><br/>Reading the book brought back wonderful memories (of what I remember of the movie) of life back in the 30's in Whistle Stop, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73332368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of you may remember that this was a movie, but let me tell you the book is something all its own.  The characters are still there (if you like them in the movie) but on a another level; the movie cleaned up a lot of &quot;unseemly&quot; tidbits and sanitized some great aspects to the novel.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56768719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book on tape while driving to Boston and then around going to work and etc. The movie was much better. I liked the book but the movie gives it much more justice. Towanda's &quot;character&quot; was much more alive in the book than in the movie which was very interesting. Always go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12750078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this movie, so I was excited to read the book as books are usually so much better.  I would have to say this book was an exception to that rule.  I did enjoy reading it, however, it was more of a hodge podge of stories of many different characters.  I liked the &quot;readers digest&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49580734">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  I liked the fact that the author had Mrs. Threadgoode, an 86 year old woman, tell the story to a woman suffering from severe menopause.  Also, the weekly bulletins throughout the book gave the reader a real sense of the town and characters back in those days.    ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The movie was AWESOME.  The book, disappointing. It felt a bit too loose and random, sort of running all over the place but not necessarily tying together as well as the film.  One very unusual case in which the film is far superior to the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend the movie. I also recommend the book -- but don't expect the two to be liked for the same reasons.  The movie is &quot;the good parts&quot; version of the book (great cast!) and the book meanders and back-tracks and I probably wouldn't have liked it at all, except that I did. I liked the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61794629">more...</a>]]></body>
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