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Summary: Disappointed...
Review: It seems that this book is loved by many but, unfortunately, I just did not have the same reaction. About 80 pages into the book, I had to put it down. Now, I hate not finishing the book but I felt as though it was a waste of time. Maybe I just don't get the whole Queen thing - I don't need someone else to worship me to validate my goodessness. But more than anything I just found the book to be stupid. I would recommend "Kiss My Tiara" instead. Happy reading!!
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Summary: Wannabe!
Review: My mother read this in her book club and kept raving about it. I finally borrowed it to read on a road trip from Houston to Huntsville (not a long trip). I could not stop laughing! This is a fantastic book! I'm 26 and am now a die-hard wannabe. I recommend this book and the other SPQ books to any WOMAN who wants a good laugh. For those who have complained about it not being serious literature - hey, what did you expect?
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Summary: I Guess I Was Expecting Too Much
Review: I had heard this book was very funny, and it looked like it would be a fun book to read. My first opinion after I started reading this book was that Ms. Browne was obviously not in with the popular crowd in her school days. Throughout the book she goes on about how her and the "Tammys" are superior and the "Wannabes" have to wait on them hand and foot and will never be an actual "Queen"....PUH-LEASE!!! Get over yourself! I should have stopped, but no...i pressed on and finished the book.Sure there were some humorous parts and some good recipes, but for the most part it was repetitive and sad rather than funny. I do give the Sweet Potato Queens credit for having lots of fun, (even though our definitions of fun are two totally different things)because having fun in life is so important! However, my lasting impression of the Sweet Potato Queens is that they are 30 and 40-somethings that are really 20-something wannabes, and act like trailer trash in the process. If you want a real fun book (although dark at times) about true friendship, read "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells. The Ya-Ya's have fun too, but, unlike the Queens, they have class!
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Summary: I'm so glad I finally read this book!
Review: If there's one thing better than reading this book, it's listening to Jill Conner Browne read it! I picked up this book a dozen times before I read it. I don't know why I waited so long! The Sweet Potato Queens (all Tammys) are a scream! Browne tells great anecdotes and truths--the story about "be particular," for example, is good advice told in a memorable way. I'm not sure I'm up to the "no fail way to get a man to do anything," but then I'm not a Sweet Potato Queen either. I don't think you have to be Southern to relate to this book, but it may be funnier to us. Highly recommended!
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Summary: How can you not love it?
Review: I have seen this book several times before I bought it at a small airport when I was desperate for reading material on the plane. I really wish I had read it sooner. I was raised by a woman that well deserves to be a Sweet Potato Queen and I saw so much of my mother in the things Browne spoke about. I kept thinking I had come to the funniest part of the book and as I would read on...I would find something better. It started with the 5 men every woman needs in her life. I thought, this is the best. Then I got the the possum (and yes according to brown I spelled possum right) story, and I thought, it can't get better than this. Then I got to the food. I know am waiting to get the Sweet Potato Queens' Big Cookbook...This is southern food at the best. I loved the book so much I recommended it for a book club. I have gotten so many emails thanking me for selecting it.
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Summary: Worth the extra $ for the audio version
Review: Although this book is funny enough on it's own, hearing Jill Conner Browne read it in her Jackson, Mississippi twang and hitting every vocal influction she intended the words to have makes it an altogether literary treat. These fabulous, self-proclaimed 'Fallen Southern belles" come in all shapes and sizes and make no apologies for it. On the other hand, they'll be the first to tell you that you are not Sweet Potato Queen material if you are "too fat to walk without winding yourself". Besides, you want to live as long as possible, or at the very least, heed the sage Queenly advice of writing your own obituary ahead of time, just in case. Otherwise well meaning friends and family will write something atrocious like, "she always loved shoes and will be buried in a pair of beige leather pumps her daughter 'Poochie' bought in Atlanta", or worse, they'll disclose your hated family nicknames, like David "do-Nasty" Williams. Hmmm- advice to live by. Other SPQ advice doled out is regarding why they'll always sunbathe ("I will do it until I can no longer drag myself outdoors into a patch of sunlight", she writes), "Be Prepared", "Educating Our Young", "The Five Men You Must Have", and the SPQ's famous "True Magic Words: How to get any man to do your bidding". This hilarious romp through the SPQ's world is a must-have for any woman with a sense of humor- or, a pulse, for that matter.
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Summary: This book makes even us Northener's laugh!!!!!
Review: First I wanted to say that I totally disagree with the review by .... The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love, and subsequent books, are some of the funniest, truthfull and encouraging books I have read in a long time. Even though I live in Michigan, I can still relate to the aging gracefully (but crazily) advice, the 5 men we need in our lives (unless of course you are fortunate to find all the qualities in one man) and all the wonderful girlfriend support that this book promotes. I have highly recommended it to all MY girlfriends and have thus broadend the SPQ's "cult" following as well as increasing my girlfriends caloric intake from all the great recipes that are shared in the books!!!!!
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Summary: World's best manual on how to have a good time
Review: The Sweet Potato Queens are outrageous, and their "Book of Love" is an absolutely hysterical read. There's no question that this is strictly light fare - it's so fluffy that it almost floats of the bookshelf - but it still has lots of amusing advice and anecdotes about life and love. This book is all about having a good time. Jill Conner Browne is a born storyteller, and does she ever have stories to tell! Some of the world's most decadent recipes are a bonus. I can't wait to mix up a batch of "chocolate stuff"!
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Summary: I wanna be a Queen when I grow up Mama
Review: This is the funniest book I've read this year. I'd seen the Sweet Potato Queen book on the shelves for years but I always found a reason not to buy it. I finally ran out of distractions and I'm so glad I did because this book was a sheer joy. For two hours I laughed, sighed and noded my head. It flat out made me happy. I couldn't ask for more.
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Summary: When you can't be near your Girlfriends
Review: This book was one of the best I've read on so many levels. I live too far away from my girlfriends and this book was a great substitute to all the crazy things my friends and I do when we're together. I love that these group of women actually exist and that they are so committed to laughing with and at the rest of the world. I'd actually even consider taking a trip to Jackson's St. Patrick's Day Parade with my friends to see these women and laugh along with them. I hope Ms. Browne decides to keep writing! Thanks for the laughs.
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