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Crazy in Alabama

Crazy in Alabama

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good to the last page....
Review: This was a delightful novel, full of wonderment and surprise, as well as some predictability and some humor. Every aspect of every character was developed entirely, until the reader had no choice but to recognize him/herself. Along with the wonderfully colorful characters was a decidedly historic adaptation of black vs. white, an interesting and profoundly beautiful version of this never ending struggle between the races. Scrambled into all this is a young boy trying to grow up. His name is Peter Joseph, but they call him "PeeJoe". He tells the story as he reminisces about his youth. I felt I was there, I loved every moment. I will definitely revisit this author.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: IF YOU NEED A GOOD LAUGH, THIS IS THE BOOK
Review: The hilarious story of how Aunt Lucille gets to Hollywood starts with Aunt Lucille showing up at Grandma's house with the head of her husband in a Tupperware bowl which she then proceeds to show Grandma and Wiley, her nephew. The rest of her husband is in the deep freeze and fortunately, Tupperware holds its contents tightly. This is not Mr. Smith goes to Washington - it's Lucille goes to Hollywood. The other story is what happens to Wiley and his brother Peejoe while they stay with their undertaker uncle and Grandma watches Lucille's six children. What a story! I loved it and laughed out loud reading it. This book will definitely chase away any winter doldrums. Try it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: NOT TOO CRAZY
Review: CRAZY IN ALABAMA IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ LATELY. THE STORY, WHILE COMICAL AT TIMES, IS SERIOUS AND BRINGS YOUR ATTENTION TO THE OPPRESSION WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE ENDURED. IT IS, I THINK, HISTORICALLY ACURATE IN THE SETTING OF THE TURBULANT TIMES OF THE EARLY 1960'S IN THE SOUTH. THE AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEWS EVENTS OF THE TIME WERE TRUE AS I REMEMBER THEM BUT HE GOES BEYOND THE FACTS TO PRESENT THE REASONS. WHEN HE DESCRIBES GEORGE WALLACE'S VISIT TO INDUSTRY AND HIS CONFRONTATION WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATOR YOU LEARN IT'S ALL POLITICAL. WHILE MARTIN LUTHER KING IS SHOWN AS THE POWERFUL AND INSPIRING FORCE HE WAS, HIS OWN POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS ARE REVEALED. THROUGH THE 12 YEAR OLD PEEJOE THE READER IS TAKEN BACK IN TIME TO GAIN A TRUER UNDERSTANDING OF THE POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE 60'S WHILE LUCILLE'S ADVENTURES SPEAK OF THE FEELINGS AND OPPRESSION OF WOMEN. AS I READ THE BOOK I HAD TO KEEP TURNING BACK TO THE AUTHOR'S PICTURE AS I WONDERED HOW HE GAINED SO MUCH WISDOM AND INSIGHT AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE. "CRAZY IN ALABAMA" IS NOT CRAZY AT ALL. IT IS AN EXCELLENT READING ADVENTURE.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Delightful
Review: This is certainly one of the best books I've read all year. Two stories, running parallel, intersecting only by the relationship of characters across both stories. Although Lucille's tale is completely bizarre, it is also completely believable! And if not completely believable, it is totally entertaining. The racially segregated town brings home what opressed people everywhere have to endure and the fact that Mark could blend two such themes so successfully is a testiment to his writing ability. This book is a must read. Don't see the movie first.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Crazy in Alabama Review
Review: This book was entertaining and contained various moral messages, it held my attention and was an easy read, however there were two stories that could have been better if left by themselves. There was the profound and serious racial story and the morbidly funny Lucille on the run story. It was odd and original to see them combined, but I don't know if it was a good thing.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: An important book?
Review: I managed to get through this since I was stuck on an airplane with nothing else to do, but I'm surprised that some trade reviewer thought this was an important book. It's a rather peculiar mixture of Southern gothic horror (severed head in tupperware container) and civil rights epic. The police are all bad guys, the blacks are all noble, and the heroine who murders her husband is just high-spirited. Ah well, it had its moments. But important? Puh-leeze ...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Change
Review: This book is a great portrait of life in the south during the change of segretation. Mark Childress really depicted a great tale of adventure and danger in this novel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Hero Is A Crazed Whore/murderess!
Review: Smooth. Very smooth. Kill your husband with rat poison, decapitate him with your turkey carver and become a star! I love it! CRAZY IN ALABAMA is by far the best novel I have read all year. The gumbo of characters and personalities is just...radioactive. Mark Childress has done an outstanding job of blending ignorace, naivete, prejudice, rite-of-passage, and stubbornness all into one great work. I truly reccommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a full plot with small daggers of symbolism. Happy trails...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Amazing-I-never-want-to-put-it--down kind of a book
Review: This novel was brilliant! It painted civil rights Alabama like I had never seen it before. The symbols Childress uses were wonderful and appropriate. The plot in itself was fantastic, tying two umcommon tales into one amazing and crazy plot. It is wacky, but practical...hilarious, yet serious and at the same time unbelieveably conciviable. And it also instills the added bonus of faith in one's Tupperware. It is a must read-don't be lazy and see the movie-you'll miss out on half the experince.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book was enteraining, it was a joy to read.
Review: I enjoyed this book. It kept you interested, and absorbed. It was like watching an old sit com on TV, you knew it couldn't happen but it was semi-believeable & enteraining.


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