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Jun 19, 2011
Judy
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The culture of this book is amazing. Miss Hilly is the typical queen bee -- she was probably the grade school bully, ran the college sorority and now has some kind of power over all the other little women. It was hilarious, but sad, when she went to tattle to Skeeter's mother. The men, meanwhile, may have their own world but in the world of these women they know only what they're told: When Skeeter asks her father about Constantine, he says only that she quit and Skeeter says, "He is too honest
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I love this book! I love the relationships that form throughout the story. I enjoyed the way the author wrote from three different perspectives as each different character and tied them in together.
This book was superb. Everyone should read this and take a look at how they view others who might be different from themselves.
This is a must -read book - not only about race relations in the 60's in the South but about relationships between women. WARNING: yucky scene with a pervert in the woods, and a nasty exchange about a pie that includes the sh__ word.
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very good
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