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The Help has become hugely popular lately and I jumped right on that bandwagon. I really enjoyed this read. The narrative follows three women in Jackson, Mississippi, one young white woman and two black maids. All three of them face pressure from their families, employers, and friends to follow the conventions of the 1960s. Skeeter bucks the trend by sabotaging the Junior League and secretly interviewing her friends' maids for a tell-all-book. While this is a really long book, the characters are
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I am sorry that I waited so long to read this book. It was wonderful. I did not want to put it down. It was a great story It is a great story of the color divide in Mississippi and a young white girl that was tired of sitting round just watching. She talks with them and hears their stories. She then writes a book about the maids in her community. There is fear, love and understanding all wrapped up in a very touching story.
This book really deserved 3.5 stars. Reasons why:
1.I hate the language writing in this book. Only one of the maids talks from the south? And it is written phenotically? Yah that doesn't fly with me very well
2.there is nothing more that i don't like is when the book itself is about how it got the title. like the main character is writing the book that you are now reading. I found that extremely cheesy and a stupid twist ending
3. I did enjoy the different character per chapter.
4.I lost interest a ...more
1.I hate the language writing in this book. Only one of the maids talks from the south? And it is written phenotically? Yah that doesn't fly with me very well
2.there is nothing more that i don't like is when the book itself is about how it got the title. like the main character is writing the book that you are now reading. I found that extremely cheesy and a stupid twist ending
3. I did enjoy the different character per chapter.
4.I lost interest a ...more
This book was amazing! It is one of the best books I've read since the Other Boleyn Girl. It was touching, moving, and inspirational. You really feel like you in the homes of the white ladies viewing it through their "help" If you want to know what it's like to be a black maid living in 1960's Jackson, Mississippi, pick up this book.
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I guess I can't read long books. Some where about page 250 I was done. I felt it dragged at the end and I felt a need to just skim and find out the ending.
I had a hard time switching between people. I got so into one character...it took me about 5 pages to switch to the new one. But I am not sure how else you could have written it.
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I LOVED LOVED the idea of this book. The one thing that was SO inspiring is the idea of how people really lived their lives and courage to tell others how hard ...more
I had a hard time switching between people. I got so into one character...it took me about 5 pages to switch to the new one. But I am not sure how else you could have written it.
HOWEVER
I LOVED LOVED the idea of this book. The one thing that was SO inspiring is the idea of how people really lived their lives and courage to tell others how hard ...more
Aug 06, 2011
Melissa
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it was amazing
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This was a wonderful book - I love reading about the South, as I know so little about it. It was wonderfully written through the eyes three very different characters and that added so much depth and perspective to the narrative.
Loved it! I would have preferred more closure at the end though.
As many others have mentioned, the audiobook is outstanding, probably one of the best I've ever listened to.
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very good. not an easy read but very good.
Sep 04, 2014
Kayla
marked it as to-read
