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AMAZING story. This was so hard to put down, I fell in love with these characters and started to feel like I knew them on a personal level the deeper I got into the story. I loved how the story was told from three character's point of view. You get a different "feel" for it at different angles. Even though this book is fiction I know it is based on real life black maids working for white families and this book dives so deep into how personal some of those relationships were that it made me mad a
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It was a good book. I did not live in the south, but I feel that it was representative of the time. The book takes you through a range of emotions. I would encourage you to read it.
What a book! I think the last book I read that was this good was "A Thousand Splendid Suns". This story was so much more than a book about civil rights. Suspense, romance, family relationships... along with a good dose of the horrors that close-minded individuals inflicted upon others during the sixties. The characters here so believable, so human. And, the events didn't occur in a "fictionally-construed-perfect-happy-ending" kind of way - it felt real, probably because it was, at some level for
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Currently reading for Gender in Contemporary Lit class.I loved the developing friendships between the women and how they discovered they had more in common than they thought.
I enjoyed this book. Maybe the southern pace slowed me down, because I didn't get though it as fast as I wanted. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie. There were some great one liners and paragraphs in this book that I really enjoyed.
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This was an awesome book. Stockett did an excellent job of capturing the building tension of the time. This book has made me want to now read "To Kill a Mockingbird" which the author references. Hope the movie does it justice. Excellent read.
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Amazing. All you need to know is that, as slow as I read, I was able to read it's 500+ pages in one checkout period. It was that good.
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An easy read that leaves you thinking.
