The Help in Settings

Apr 15, 2015 Sassafrass rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, kindle, borrowed-library, z-ravenclaw-mmp, z-challenge-books-2015, z-2015, historical-fiction

*4 STARS*

WARNING: SPOILERS! Do not read this review if you don't want the spoilers.

I saw the movie before reading this book, and I have to say that while I thought the movie was better than the book, I liked this much more than I thought I would.

I think that the movie did the book a lot of justice, but it made right what I thought the book got wrong.

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For one, I liked the way that Skeeter's relationship with Stuart was handled in the movie as compared to the book. The whole marriage ...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Penney rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, novel, women-s-fiction

Really great books make you think and feel before, during and after you read them. For me, this was certainly true of The Help. I was a bit hesitant to pick it up because, normally, stories based on the realities of ethnic and racial struggles just make me sad and angry. As an African American woman I actually don't want to read about the pain and oppression of our past, it hurts. That's what goes through my mind every time I pick up a book with this subject matter, 'I don't want to hurt'. But, ...more

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Nov 21, 2010 Tien rated it it was amazing

Shelves: usa, historical-fiction, literature, favorites

Wow - amazing...

I can't really comment on how authentic the characters / setting are since I don't know very much about the Southern American ways (I'm an Aussie) but I truly enjoy the story and especially the courage of each characters. The suspense was built really well cuz boy, don't I feel tense!

One of my best reads this year, definitely. ...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Ann rated it really liked it

I listened to the audio version of this book and it was done very nicely with different people reading different characters. The book centers on the 1960's Mississippi town of Jackson. Skeeter, a young white woman who wants to be a journalist, meets and writes the story of several black maids who care for the white children of their employers. The story gives their side of the story when it comes to segregation, bigotry and the way things were in the south during that time. It was long to listen ...more

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Jul 31, 2009 Pollyanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, tear-jerkers, favorites

I didn't know what to expect before reading this, it was so hyped up that I thought I would probably be disappointed but I thought it was brilliant. I don't often recommend books to my mum and nan but I have told them that they have to read this. It was funny at times and also sad, I actually did cry and I very rarely cry at books.

Aibileen and Minny were such fantastic characters I really enjoyed listening to what they had to say, Miss Skeeter annoyed me at times but she had a good heart really ...more

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Apr 12, 2010 Shannon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: listened-to

So good. Loved the characters. Even the ones that weren't very likable you loved. ...more

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Aug 24, 2011 Stephanie Tuell rated it really liked it

Well. It turned out way better than I thought it would. At first the language got to me, but I quickly overcame it. I found myself feeling for everyone in the story. A must read for everyone, especially in this day and age.

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