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Summary: I laughed so hard it made me cry!
Review: I've never read a book in a weekend. Ever. But, I couldn't put this book down! Born and raised in Richmond, VA (which any true Southerner will tell you, is much further south than Atlanta, GA), I completely relate to Celia Rivenbark's rants about Mommy Wars, southern life, and mullets. Unfortunately, I'm just not elequent enough to describe how wonderful this book is. Celia, if you read this, you've gained a loyal fan, and I plan on spreading the word about this book around the office tomorrow... after the painful, but inevitable, staff meeting.
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Summary: Precious
Review: Ms. Rivenbark has a delicious sense of humor, I am so glad I bought this and couldn't help finishing it in one day.
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Summary: I laughed so hard it made me cry!
Review: Reading Celia Rivenbark is just like watching a gorgeous female version of Jeff Foxworthy, only funnier. Covering a number of topics from white trash to children to husbands, Celia will keep you laughing throughout the entire book.
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Summary: Fried chicken and Moonpies
Review: Reading Celia Rivenbark is just like watching a gorgeous female version of Jeff Foxworthy, only funnier. Covering a number of topics from white trash to children to husbands, Celia will keep you laughing throughout the entire book.
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Summary: Humor-impaired? Here's the Cure.
Review: Reviewer Stuckin NC USA either read a different book than I, or more likely, was venting about a personal agenda that had nothing to do with Celia Rivenbark's book. While Stuckin revealed true bigotry in her own observations about Southern women, Rivenbark's hilarious mocking of Southern stereotypes and human experience gets to the heart of us, Southern or not. If you can read this book without 1. Revisiting your childhood, 2. Recognizing your own relatives, 3. Seeing yourself (and laughing), 4. Looking nervously at your political-correctness, or 5. Realizing that life is really very, very funny, you are hopelessly humor-impaired. If We're Just Like You, Only Prettier doesn't cure you of excessive seriousness, then you need another dose--read Bless Your Heart, Tramp right away.
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Summary: STUPID BOOK
Review: The only people who will like this are Southern women. As for the South being a "melting pot"? Not so, they hate the Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, and anyone else who isn't a good Southern Baptist. Celia proves this with her book. Also, she looks like the typical Southern soccer mom. Knee-high socks, vest, walking shorts, bleached blonde hair, tons of make-up etc.... Forget this book and find something more worthwhile. Try Fried Green Tomatoes, or Walking in Egypt. Both are wonderful reads.
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Summary: STUPID BOOK
Review: The only people who will like this are Southern women. As for the South being a "melting pot"? Not so, they hate the Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, and anyone else who isn't a good Southern Baptist. Celia proves this with her book. Also, she looks like the typical Southern soccer mom. Knee-high socks, vest, walking shorts, bleached blonde hair, tons of make-up etc.... Forget this book and find something more worthwhile. Try Fried Green Tomatoes, or Walking in Egypt. Both are wonderful reads.
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Summary: FUNNIEST SOUTHERN WOMAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Review: This hysterical follow-up to BLESS YOUR HEART, TRAMP kept me laughing and crying throughout every riotous chapter. Celia Rivenbark is a must read for all Southern women and the rest of the nation that doesn't understand them. You'll learn what it's like to be an oh-so-not-the-junior-league working mother, from cereal bars in the car on the way to pre-school, only to discover their teacher makes them tell the class what they had for breakfast("the most important meal of the day") to why daddies should NEVER, EVER be allowed to dress the children for public appearances, and countless other insights that had me laughing out loud for hours and making my Mid-western friends listen to excerpts over the telephone. I'm compelled to wear my little fake tiarra while I read it! I can't wait for Celia's next book!
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Summary: Preach on, Rev. Rivenbark!
Review: We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, is a whole lot like Bless Your Heart, Tramp...only funnier! This "tarnished Southern Belle" rings out loud and clear, giving her testimony of collards, chicken pan pie and bacon grease to a lost and hungry world. The beauty of the Rivenbark message is that she not only preaches to the choir of southerners--oh no--she invites all of those who seek, no matter their denomination, to turn in their hymnals and listen to the gospel according to Aunt Sudavee, Mama and Them, Princess Sophie and even Carmela Soprano. Sermons include Sister Celia's take on (1) child rearing: "Junior, you either get your scrawny butt off that floor right now or you can just kiss your banana Popsicles good-bye and don't even THINK about that Star Track lunch box!"; (2) men at baby showers: "(they) wear that frozen look of horror that is usually reserved for when they discover that ESPN's showing the world figure skating championships" and (3) weight gain: "30% of overweight people are suffering from the (fat) virus. Lordy, give us a telethon! We can all waddle to the center court at the mall, eat butter-drenched pretzels, and beg for bucks!" So come all ye faithful in need of a good revival and plop down the price for a hard-backed edition as a love offering for the Right Rev. Rivenbark. It's good for what ails you.
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