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Summary: Sweet & fun
Review: This book is not nearly as intellectual or inspirational as some of her others... but fun nonetheless...
Rita Mae Brown finally proves that it IS possible to love 2 people at once... HA HA HA!
This book takes place in 1980, and deals with lesbianism as a taboo concept (but with a happy ending).
This novel deals with the different kinds of female/female relationships - mother/dughter, sisters, best friends, and girlfriends - and describes them all well!
For anyone in any kind of relationship... or especially for girls who can't seem to decide on their gender of preference... this book helps you realize yr not alone! It's a fun, easy, quick read... (but maybe not worth the price of a hardcover... maybe wait until October 2002 for the paperback! - try "Rubyfruit Jungle" and "In Her Day" in the meantime.)
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Summary: This Book was Awesome!
Review: This book was just wonderful. I couldn't put it down and read it in a day. This is the first of her books that I've read and I'll definately be reading more of hers.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: This is truly the best book I have ever read! I could read it over and over again. It is like reading my life story in a book. Thank you Rita Mae Brown for the opportunity to read this wonderful novel.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is truly the best book I have ever read! I could read it over and over again. It is like reading my life story in a book. Thank you Rita Mae Brown for the opportunity to read this wonderful novel.
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Summary: Perfunctory
Review: This would probably be a 2 star book if anyone else had written it, but since we know Rita Mae Brown can do so much better, I have to give it one. Six of One is probably my favorite book ever. This ain't no Six of One. BTW, does every Rita Mae Brown book feature "the most beautiful woman in the world"? Brown tries too hard to make everything work out perfectly in this book. You know what the happy ending is going to be practically as soon as you start reading. I could have told you whom Charly was eventually going to end up with in the first 20 pages. Vic's toying with Charly is just hard to read. Among the other major flaws - the quick and awkward dumping of Charly, the extremely unfunny so-called comic relief of the Wallace family, the glossing over of plot points that might inconvenience Brown's motives such as Chris' bad relationship with her parents, the stupid "oops, Dad lost all our money again" plotline. And Brown's infatuation with the goofy, yet idyllic and oh-so-charming Southern life is so old. "Insert Quirk #1 - Bunny's binoculars. Quirk #2 - the cow in the pickup. Okay, Quirk #3...." This book is basically just pre-fab slop from the Rita Mae Brown assembly line. If you haven't read her older stuff, do it, because it's great. But don't waste your time on anything like this.
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Summary: Will Vic Choose to Marry Charly or Chris?
Review: Victoria "Vic" Savedge, a tall striking beauty beginning her senior year in 1980 at William and Mary, is dating handsome, football athlete Charly, who comes from a wealthy family. She is being urged by her mother R.J. and Aunt Bunny to marry him and settle into the typical role of a suburban matron. But then she meets Chris, a young woman who has transferred from a college in Vermont and she starts to question everything, including her love for Charly. Their relationship quickly erupts into passion, and Vic is forced to admit that she is gay; however, she still contends that she loves Charly and can't bear to hurt him. The supporting cast of characters includes Vic's best friend, Jinx, her precocious meddling little sister, Mignon, her quirky mother R.J. and various other outlandish, larger-than-life southern personalities. In spite of the eccentric characters and amusing incidents, the book plods on through Vic's tormented journey: will she choose Charly or Chris? It was difficult to relate to many of the characters, and two-thirds of the way through the novel I just wanted her to decide already and get on with her life. The events described in the Epilogue were actually more interesting than those that preceded it, and the novel would have been more interesting had some of those events been incorporated.
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Summary: From a Declared Heterosexual Female . . . ;-)
Review: With apologies to Rita Mae Brown, who is an accomplished writer, from a reader who most certainly is not: I liked some aspects of this book better than others.
Nobody I read "does" the southern family as well as she does, especially the loving, though usually tempestuous relationships between sisters. Her sense of humor is delightful -- she can be hilarious when making a serious point, which makes her message so much sweeter than preaching.
Brown is a woman's writer whose empathy is with her gender. However, in contrast to the rest of this amusing and well-told story, the Lesbian theme is handled somewhat ponderously and didactically. Gay men women, even today, may have a hard time being themselves, but I think that Lesbianism as a social issue has stopped being newsworthy or in need of defense. The book -- a very lighthearted one -- would not be the appropriate vehicle for socal comment, anyway. Brown does a grand job describing women relating to each other. Still, the sexual adventures of the Lesbian characters in this book are no more interesting (or amusing) than those of the heterosexual ones, and the book appears a bit lopsided in seeming to pretend to that.
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