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Author: Kathryn Stockett
Title: The Help
Description: Come on. I know I’m the last person on the planet to read this book. You don’t really need the description, do you?
Plot: This book was one of the rare ones that had me obsessed; I was either reading it or thinking about reading it for the 4 or 5 days it took me to get through it. Several of the subsidiary plot lines had me consumed with wondering what would come next.
Characters: Beautifully done. The black characters speak in dialect, but it do ...more
Title: The Help
Description: Come on. I know I’m the last person on the planet to read this book. You don’t really need the description, do you?
Plot: This book was one of the rare ones that had me obsessed; I was either reading it or thinking about reading it for the 4 or 5 days it took me to get through it. Several of the subsidiary plot lines had me consumed with wondering what would come next.
Characters: Beautifully done. The black characters speak in dialect, but it do ...more
finished 7/26/13
There's a lot of varying talk about this book, some good and some bad and I think that as a whole, that's exactly what the book is, some good and some bad. For those who may never have thought about racism, the book probably (hopefully) opened their eyes to a sort of representation of the type of life black people and especially black women in 1960s southern America could have lived. Others may have mixed feelings about that representation or take issue with the fact that the boo ...more
There's a lot of varying talk about this book, some good and some bad and I think that as a whole, that's exactly what the book is, some good and some bad. For those who may never have thought about racism, the book probably (hopefully) opened their eyes to a sort of representation of the type of life black people and especially black women in 1960s southern America could have lived. Others may have mixed feelings about that representation or take issue with the fact that the boo ...more
I will fully admit that the beginning of this book bored me nearly to tears. I am, however, grateful that I continued as it really turned into a special book. I was dying to find out for the longest time what The Terrible Awful was and was suitably horrified when it was revealed. I am actually quite anxious to see the movie now and I can only hope that the movie did the book justice. My only complaint was that I felt the story ended too soon. I felt like I wanted to see a little bit more of the
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I struggled at the start of this book with the diction, starting with one of the maids, but once I got into the language of the book I was hooked. With alternating voices and a cast of vibrant characters the dynamics of the deep south in the early 1960's comes shockingly to life.
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So sad it is over!
Jul 11, 2011
Natalya
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Melissa
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Grumpy72
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Sarah
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