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Summary: Who is the Miricle Man
Review: This book is a 'laugh out loud' treat that is very enjoyable.Like others, I also didn't know who the miricle man was at the end but I think that is the point of the title. Each of us is to figure out who we believe the miricle man was. I think the last entry gives it away... A great book but take my warning: Don't read it on a plane or in a crowd. You will laugh so hard that people will think you are weird.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is one of my favorites. I've had it since High School and I re-read it about once a year.
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Summary: This Should be a Classic
Review: "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" is for those who love to read and who love to read excellent, simple fiction. Told in a diary format, Daisy Fay shares with us her life from age 11 thru high school as she grows up in 1950's Mississippi. You'd swear she's real. The book is hilarious, fast paced, and warm. My only near-complaint is 'Who is the Miracle Man?' I finished the book and stared at the cover for a long time, thinking back through the story,trying to figure out who is meant by that title, and I couldn't come up with an answer. The book was previously published as "Coming Attractions", and I think they should have left that title alone. Treat yourself to one of the best books you'll read in a long, long time.
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Summary: Funny ... With Drama and Story-Line to Boot!
Review: What a wonderful book!!! I picked this up (from a friend's rec) after reading many serious, family dramas. I love family dramas, which is one reason I loved this book. But this book was different as it offered drama with a huge and colorful flair of humor and sweetness. Daisy Fay was born to two very different people, both natives of Mississippi. She was an only child. This story follows, through her narrative, her life from the time she is about 11 until she is about 18. Daisy Fay doesn't have an easy life, for sure, but she's the best trooper around, excelling with her wit, smarts, and some kind of 'strength she musta beena born with' ... as my Momma would say. This story is chocked full of characters.... Kay Bob 'Big Mouth' Benson, Miss Dot (leader of the Jr. Debutantes), Ula Sour, Mrs. Underwood, Grandma Pettibone, Ruby Bates, Mr. Cecil and the Cecilettes, Vernon Mooseburger, Michael (the Italian) Romeo, Peachy Wigham, Sonny Snow ... the list of colorful players goes on. This is easy to read and funny but also delivers a story that is the icing on this sweet, delectable cake of a book.
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Summary: Daisy Fay for President!
Review: It's not often accurate to describe anyone as a hero/ine, but Daisy Fay Harper is the heroine of one of my favorite books, "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" by Fannie Flagg. It's a sweet, silly, noble, crazy book, sometimes heartrendingly sad but more often hysterically funny; and unlike some cutesie kid characters, Daisy will strike an unmistakeable note of truth with anyone who remembers what being a child was really like. The book is in the form of Daisy's diary. The story starts when she's eleven and ends when she's about twenty. In the beginning, she's a very bright girl with a sense of humor that can only be described as "wacky" (I usually dislike that word -- but what else can you call somebody who titles her Halloween project "The Hall of Blood and Guts"?). Her parents are constantly fighting, primarily because her father is completely irresponsible, but she's very fond of her father because they're so much alike -- ambitious, charming, full of big ideas and harebrained schemes. Daisy daydreams about movies and popular songs, and eagerly anticipates blossoming into an exciting adulthood of fame, fortune, the occasional albino, and Technicolor adventures. Like Pippi Longstocking, Daisy is feisty and self-confident, and her mental and emotional health are not at all hampered by "femininity". It doesn't bother her that being smart makes her different from the other kids at school, or that girls aren't supposed to be the class clown -- and if she even realizes that she's an oddball, she's OK with that. Despite her weirdness, she has her own circle of friends, including some grown-ups. She has only one arch-enemy, the arrogant, spoiled-rotten rich kid Kay Bob Benson (every kid knows another kid who's a hateful, backstabbing snake, and the adult authority figures never seem to catch on -- why is that, I wonder?), whom she's able to outsmart and outmaneuver without even trying very hard. I like Daisy partly because she's a little bit like me -- or like I could have been in a parallel universe -- but mainly just because Daisy is who and what she is. She personifies the childlike qualities that most of us start out with and then lose somewhere along the way. Daisy's brave, smart, kind, resourceful, and funny -- but also stubborn, amoral, buttheaded, and conniving. She's loyal, generous, and supportive toward her family and friends (when one of her pals gets a fever that causes all his hair to fall out, she wins the essay contest by writing a composition titled "Why I Want to be Bald"), but downright vengeful toward her nemesis, the evil Kay Bob (who richly deserves it). Daisy looks after she leaps, not before -- that is, if it ever occurs to her to look at all, which isn't often -- and the results aren't always what she expects or hopes for. She doesn't always succeed in being good -- in fact, a lot of the time, she doesn't even try -- mainly because the not-so-good way is easier and/or more fun. But deep down, she's pure at heart and trying to find her way in a world that doesn't always make sense to kids -- and too often, isn't kind to them, either. Daisy's underlying integrity makes the reader empathize with and root for her throughout the book, no matter what sort of mischief she's up to at a given moment. The pleasurably implausible plot is full of surprises and convoluted twists and turns. The characters, far from being cookie-cutter cartoons of down-home Southern folks, are complex, varied individuals. Nobody is too good to be true; almost nobody is too bad to be true; and nobody is "quirky" in that cheesy fake-cute way that never *ever* happens in real life. A lot of the book is fairly over-the-top, but in other passages, the humor is deadpan, almost as though Flagg were trying to sneak it past the reader. I don't want to give away too many surprises, but one example of this is too good not to share: In Home Ec, Daisy's classmate accidentally sewed the skirt of her dress to the sewing machine, and when the bell rang at the end of class and everybody stood up to go, it ripped off the entire sewing machine arm. The last sentence in Daisy's diary entry for that day reads simply: "Tomorrow we're having a lecture on 'Safety and Small Appliances'". Flagg's writing style never clobbers or manipulates the reader -- she's equally clever, observant, and deft whether she's making you laugh or making you cry. Her obvious heartfelt emotion for the place and the people (good and bad) imbue the book with authenticity and compassion, without being sappy. There's also something about her writing style that makes me feel as though she's a genuinely kind person, one whom I'd like to have for a friend. Despite some very real tragedies (on both a great and small level) in the story, the overall message of the book is basically simple and uplifting. Daisy isn't beautiful or brilliant or rich -- she's an ordinary kid with no superpowers, who spills her milk and trips over the volleyball net and swipes things from the five and ten. But as we find out, even ordinary people are capable of extraordinary moments and deeds. Daisy accomplishes some wonderful things (on both a great and small level), and is successful in her own way (which is the only way that means anything, anyway), and makes her corner of the world a little bit goofier place to be.
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Summary: Very funny and wonderful
Review: This story is entertaining and engaging from the very start. The narrator is an 11-year-old girl who wants to be a tree surgeon when she grows up, but her cat, Felix, who is pregnant, throws up on her typewriter and.... The book ends with the narrator as a young woman, and there's kind of a jump between childhood and adulthood that doesn't necessarily make sense. It is also very sad in places, as people make wrecks of their own lives, but that's just reality. I didn't like this book quite as much as I liked Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, but I still did like it a lot and would definitely recommend it. The chapter about the Rainbow Girls initiation is the best! I laughed so hard I fell and hit my head on the coffee table! (well, not really, but it sounds good.)
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Summary: southern belle
Review: daisy fay was an absoutley darling book. my friend recomended the author, i had heard of her, but have never read any of her works before. i finished this book in a day. one day! its relitivally short, and mighty sweet - im recomending daisy fay to everyone
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Summary: Great
Review: I purchased this book from a second hand store not knowing what to expect. I was very pleased once I read this novel.
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Summary: Hilarious and Entertaining
Review: This is not a typical type of book I would have picked but my book club selected it I'm glad for it. It is heartwarming, and funny. Fannie Flagg writes the way I remember seeing her when I was little. Read this book and enjoy the ride!
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Summary: Daisy Fay is my heroine
Review: Daisy Fay Harper is one of the great heroines of our time. Her faith, courage, unstoppable spirit and humour make her someone to remember. I don't usually read books more than twice but whenever I feel a little down I pick up this book and read it again and my spirit is lifted. No matter how many times I read it I still laugh out loud. When I finish it I miss her, and my greatest regret is that there has never been a follow up written as I want to know what happens to her.
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