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Summary: Rita Mae Brown at her best!
Review: "Six of One" is a rousing tale of two sisters told by Rita Mae Brown in her unapologetic, eccentric Southern style. She introduces us to Julia and Louise Hunsenmeir, fondly known as Juts and Wheezie, an indomitable pair of quarreling sisters born around the turn-of-the-century in Runnymede, Maryland. Spanning almost a century, we watch the madcap life of Juts and Wheezie take them from small tots following their mother around in the local rich lesbian's Georgian mansion to the birth of their own children and the mayhem that follows, to Juts and Wheezie as old cronies, still tangling in their 80's. The ensemble cast features Cora, their strong and caring single mother, housekeeper of Celeste; the formidable Celeste Chalfonte, a charming lesbian without apology, and her lover, the elegantly beautiful Ramelle Bowman; Fairy Thatcher and Fannie Jump Creighton, ever-scheming schoolchums of Celeste; and in later chapters, Chessie and Pearlie, long-suffering husbands of Juts and Wheezie. These eccentric characters embody all the character flaws and quirks one would expect from a Rita Mae Brown novel depicting Southern characters, and is done as only she can. Simply put, "Six of One" is a hoot! You'll laugh, cry, and laugh again at the shenanigans of this Runnymede bunch! Don't miss it
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Summary: Prepare yourself for doubled-over belly laughs!
Review: Although it's been 16 years since I first read Six of One, it still stands out as the most hilarous story I've ever had the howling pleasure to read...OUT LOUD! I read it as a university student, and constantly woke my roommate...and the girls upstairs...with my explosive laughter. I just have to say, "Fannie's handbag..." to elicit explosions of glee from others who have read this book...I'm going to treat myself to a second reading!
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Summary: Juts and Wheezie during Prohibition-Look Out!
Review: Another enjoyable Wheezie and Juts book, just don't look to any of the other books for info--they are incredibly inconsistent. The sisters' adventures during the Jazz age are hilarious.
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Summary: Juts and Wheezie during Prohibition-Look Out!
Review: Another enjoyable Wheezie and Juts book, just don't look to any of the other books for info--they are incredibly inconsistent. The sisters' adventures during the Jazz age are hilarious.
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Summary: A hilarious family saga on the Mason Dixon Line
Review: As the town of Runneymede is divided by the Mason Dixon Line, so is the family that Rita Mae Brown chronicles through several generations in this, one of her best loved and most popular books. Nobody writes internal family bitchy dialogue better than RMB, and she's off and running at top speed in Six of One. Love and war are nothing when it comes to sibling rivalry in a small town. Cora is the mother of this contentious clan of spirited, cranky, opinionated women. Spanning years from the early 1900s to the 1980s, the book alternates between past tense for the old years and present tense (told in the POV of Nickel, the bisexual daughter of Juts, one of the feuding sisters) for the more modern years.
Wonderful, nearly epic, and very very funny.
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Summary: Disappointed & Offended
Review: I am a lesbian and a devout Roman Catholic. I was very disappointed and offended by this book. The author obviously has issues with the Church, as evidenced by her Catholic-bashing in this book. I would NOT recommend this book to any adult, let alone any children. This was a disappointing followup to Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle, which I enjoyed.
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Summary: Worth re-reading over and over again
Review: I bought this book years ago, and I have bought it again and again because whenever I loan it to my friends and family, I never get it back. I just re-read it after reading Bingo, the sequel. It is still her greatest book, Celeste Chalfont her most lovable character. Loan it, buy it again, re-read it.
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Summary: Funny book but too many grammar mistakes
Review: I enjoyed the plot and the characters -- it was very funny. But there were too many grammar mistakes in the book, which I found too irritating and distracted from the book. Some conversations did not flow logically -- one person would answer herself, which didn't make sense. Also, the author switches from 1st person to 3rd person with the character of Nickel. And she used 'to' instead of 'too.' As a former copy editor and English major, this was very distracting! But overall, a great book. I plan on getting the next 2.
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Summary: Funny book but too many grammar mistakes
Review: I enjoyed the plot and the characters -- it was very funny. But there were too many grammar mistakes in the book, which I found too irritating and distracted from the book. Some conversations did not flow logically -- one person would answer herself, which didn't make sense. Also, the author switches from 1st person to 3rd person with the character of Nickel. And she used 'to' instead of 'too.' As a former copy editor and English major, this was very distracting! But overall, a great book. I plan on getting the next 2.
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Summary: Love that sibling rivalry!
Review: I had never read anything by Rita Mae Brown prior to reading Six of One...what an introduction! Ms. Brown came highly recommended to me, as I love authors who write southern fiction, complete with quirky and eccentric characters and a laugh on every page. And Six of One offers a heapin' helpin' of the good stuff! Juts and Wheezie's revenge against each other will keep you rolling. It is sibling rivalry at it's best. Plus, I love the fact that the book spans eighty years, so we get to see what happens to most of the characters from life until death. Thank goodness there are two other books in the Hunsenmeir sisters series. Don't want to miss out on any more of their crazy antics!
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