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Summary: A beautifully written book.........could NOT put it down!!!
Review: Fannie Flagg is one of my favorite authors........and this book is a perfect example of her gift of telling a story......I laughed aloud, was intrigued, and cried...a rollercoaster of emotions...it is one of most beautifully written books I have ever read!!! MARVELOUS!!!
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Summary: Started with a bang and ended with a whimper
Review: Flagg's story-telling style, much like Garrison Keillor's rich tales of adventures in Lake Woebegone, capture the charm and humor of ordinary people and events. One of the warm memories of my baby boomer childhood was being allowed to sit up late, listening to the murmur of "elder generation" voices carrying on discussions much like those of Dena's charming Missouri relations. As in Fried Green Tomatoes, Flagg's moving back and forth in time was sometimes fun, sometimes poignant and overall a creative method for moving the story line along. The reading was enjoyable until Dena's "BIG (unbelievable) REVELATION." From that point on a story that opened with spirit fizzled into a disappointing melodrama with saccharine caricatures. Try again, Fannie, and stay with it to the end!
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Summary: Excellent reading! Please tell me there will be a movie.
Review: Even though I'm from the south, when I read one of Fannie Flagg's books I wish I had been born a few years earlier and a few states further south.This book made me laugh out loud several times and kept me in just enough suspense that I read it all at once. Please tell Ms. Flagg to keep on writing. The world needs more books like this.
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Summary: Great insight on healing, growing & overcoming the past.
Review: Fannie Flagg's newest book shows a different writing style & character development than we have seen from her in the past. The book does a great job of juggling many characters, time periods & places without seeming disjointed. The reader gets to see Dena with all the warts beneath her beautiful glamorous facade. The reader then gradually finds out the deep-seated reasons for her seemingly selfish & destructive behavior. This newest book is a departure from Ms. Flagg's past homespun tales; however, it comes back in the end to the rural Southern life readers have come to expect. Give this very different book a chance and you will fall in love with Dena and all the unusual folks who populate this fascinating book. Ms. Flagg does a great job of weaving small town life, odd characters and a puzzling mysterious past into a must-read book.
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Summary: Read this book on tape
Review: Read this book on tape: Fannie Flagg is an engaging story-teller. She differentiates her characters with slightly different voices and accents, making the reading experience much more interesting than it would be in straight book form. I read it in the car, and then sat in my driveway for the last half hour of the book to hear its end. The tapes last for 5 hours, so it was perfectly perfect for the long ride. (I do wonder what I missed, now that I know it was an abridged version. Maybe I'll have to get the book too.)
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Summary: Extremely insightful
Review: I could not put this book down. It is a quick read which really allows one to think about the effects of television news. Not only that, but the main character, who is well developed, really draws the reader in.
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Summary: Good beginning that deteriorates badly.
Review: The beginning of the story was well written and full of interesting characters. It drifts backs and forth in time which is not a distraction once you adjust, but then it switches from an interesting combination of dialogue and narrative to straight narrative and letters which seemed to say, "I've got to wind this sucker up and get it to the publisher." I don't want to give away the ending, but I have to say that to me it was very unbelievable.
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Summary: Poor story line and unbelievable characters.
Review: I would never have finished this book, were it not for the fact that my book club selected it. I think I can include it on my list of the worst 10 books I've ever read. Nothing seemed to work - not the story, not the characters, not even the prose.
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Summary: a big disappointment, this is a dull book
Review: A big disappointment, this dull book is a messy hash of trite story lines leading to a particularly silly ending - don't waste your time on it, read something beautiful and nourishing instead. The author needed an editor, and didn't have one. Not an original thought or story turn in the whole mess!
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Summary: A book with heart and a lesson.
Review: Welcome to the World Baby Girl is a wonderful study of friendship, ambition and heartbreak in a story that made me feel all of it. It provided wonderful contrasts of warm nostalgia and bitter pain from the same time period. At times, I was reminded of the complex struggles in "Band of Angels". It is a completely different book and different type book from Ms. Flagg's previous works, but has just as much heart in its own way. The book's characters are universal. Welcome to the World Baby Girl also reminded us that rejudice is not limited just to Alabama. A very worthwhile read and a very powerful book.
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