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Summary: The Title Holds True
Review: Mark Childress has done a great job capturing comedy, craziness, and tradegy. This book, Crazy in Alabama, is seriously one of the strangest books I have ever read in my lifetime. So many odd things occur that it is nearly impossible to not stay totally engulfed with this reading. From the very beginning, when Chester is first revealed the reader can tell that this is going to be one heck of an enjoyable book. The main character is a young boy named Peejoe, who undergoes some great changes. The reader gets to watch a young boy grow up and stand up for what he believes before he is too old for people to tell him how he feels. Childress does an absolutely amazing job of describing this young character, and all the people that he meets along the way. Each person has a different affect on this young boy, and without even knowing what he or she are doing, they help this boy grow up to become an amazing man. This is a great read for any age. It gives a great prospective on how things really once were in this nation. This is a fairly fast read, if you have the extra time. This is a great comedy but at the same time is frightfully truthful. His use of extreme character makes it all fit together.
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Summary: A brilliant novel -- one you 'll remember forever.
Review: I just finished reading this book no more than two minutes ago. I must agree with just about everyone -- this is a brilliant novel. Besides telling friends and family, I want to tell the world: Read "Crazy in Alabama." You will never forget it!
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Summary: Race Riots/Roadtrip to Hollywood
Review: This book was very funny.It is a great book to read after reading a book that is depressing or a book that is boreing.I read this book after a very boreing book and that is why it was such a great contrast.My favorite chapters were the Peejoe chapters because they were about something that you could relate to because it really could have happened.If the whole book would have been about Peejoe, I probably would have not liked this book.I also would not have liked this book if it would have been all about Lucille because her chapters were funny but it would have been very boreing if it was all about her adventures to Hollywood and the Beverly Hillbillies. I really liked Lucille's comment to her mother about Chester," He said NO,when he should have said YES!!" What I did not like tough was the fact that she left her children with Meemaw after she got off the hook because she slept with the judge. I thought that she should have taken back her kids and forgot about being a movie star. I felt the most sorry for Dove because he lost everything. He lost his family,his home,his business,his friend Milton,and he lost his reputation in Industry. I also felt bad for Meemaw because she got stuck with all of the kids. I felt bad for Peejoe too because his whole life got messed up. If I would have known Lucille I would have probably slapped her an told her what a screw-up she was. If she did not want children she should not have got married.
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Summary: Not so crazy about this book.
Review: I usually don't care to much for double sided stories but I wouldn't have been able to read this one without the chapters of Peejoe to help me along. I thought Lucille was a selfish slut who only cared about what she got. Peejoe on the other hand actually tried to help someone besides himself. I wouldn't reccomend only writing just Peejoe stories though, unless you like being depressed. Overall the book wasn't too bad.
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Summary: A classic American novel!
Review: This is a funny, witty and thought-provoking book. Aunt Lucille is now one of the great characters of American literature. I will be ordering every book Mark Childress has ever written -- hopefully they will be half as wonderful as I found this book to be.
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Summary: I lost my head over this book
Review: Although I love the book, and it has a clear-cut ending..it doesn't quite deserve a 5...even though a fiction work.. it had great points of realism in the maze of craziness...Thelma and Louise meets Harper Lee... I'd recomend this book to anyone who wants to get lost in a book..but doesn't want too difficult of a time finding their way back
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Summary: Crazy...
Review: I really liked this book! It was exactly what the title said. It was Crazy in Alabama. My favorite chapters were Luceille's. (A fed up house wife who poisons her husband, decapitates him, and carries his head to hollywood.) That wasn't all. Peejoe's chapters carried a deeper meaning. A racial conflict and the evil and hatred it brings. A sheriff who is above the law and thinks he's above God himself. And a schizophrenic cousin who beleives the dead speak to her. I really recommend reading this book. It's very entertaining.
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Summary: The second best book I have read thus far!!
Review: Childress is an absolute genius! The way that he alternates between Lucille and Peejoe remined me a lot of the way Judith Guest alternated between Calvin and Conrad's chapters. My favorite chapters were Lucille's! Although some people would argue that Lucille is a slut, and that her chapters were unreal, I don't think I would have loved the book as much if her chapters weren't in there. I found myself reading Peejoe's chapters a lot slower than Lucille's. Her adventures after killing Chester fully captured my attention. I think it was the fact that Lucille's life was something that you would never have read about anywhere else; Peejoe's was just a typical story about a boy learning about a different race. I definately have to give props to Mark Childress for writing "Crazy in Alabama." It was one of the best I have ever read!
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Summary: Funny is an understatement for this book
Review: I really enjoyed all the different events in this book! I think this is the best book our Modern Novel class has read this year.
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Summary: I am Crazy for this book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! I felt like I was on a rollercoaster of words: there were so many twist, turns, and unexpected events. I quickly came partial to the Peejoe chapters but the Lucille ones did help balance the book and it wouldn't be as good without one or the other. This book evoked all emotions and left you laughing one minute and crying the next, Literally! Mark Childress is truly a gifted author. I look forward to reading more books by him.
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