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Summary: A sophisticated book by a great author.
Review: Fannie Flagg is truly improving as an author! Her first novel: Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man was good, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was great, this book is wonderful!A very interesting plot about a newscaster named Dena Nordstrom who lost her way home. She finds it with the help of two psychiatrists, a bleeding ulcer, a fellow, older newscaster, and of course the hilarious cast of characters from her hometown in Missouri! Aunt Elner is one of the greatest characters in literature! Under the ghost of "Neighbor Dorothy" a 1940s homemaker who had a radio show which "on a cold, clear day" could be heard all the way to the Canadian border, Dena learns the meaning of home in much the same way Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz does: in a voyage of self-discovery, including finding out some shocking, sad, truths about her mother's and her own past and origens. A well-written sophisticated, funny, suspenseful book which will have you flipping pages to the end. Great plot, beautifully characterized, will take you home.
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Summary: Fannie Flagg triumphs again
Review: Dena Nordstrom is presented as the type of complex character that pique's a reader's interest and this is sustained through a long novel. The dialogue is as real as the multiple character presentations. The reader is made to care about all the people who weave in and out of her life. This is a remarkable achievement for any novelist!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I loved Fannie Flagg's other two books and was really looking forward to this one. It was as if someone else wrote this completely. The book was one dimensional and really not very interesting. I didn't believe any of the characters. The story could have been interesting if the characters would have been more believable.
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Summary: I laughed, I cried.... I got chill bumps!
Review: I am an avid reader of mostly best-sellers.... with classics thrown in here and there. Family stories, romance and life perspectives have always touched me. "Baby" has it all! Although this is the first novel I have read from Flagg, it won't be my last. I devored the whole book in less then a day. From the moment I picked it up, I was totally captivated by the setting AND the characters. I found it all to be realistic and enjoyable to the very last page. The wisely sagacious Aunt Elner was a big treat, and brought back memories of many fantastic people I have known in my life. The heroine, Dena Nordstrom was a personality that I could totally relate to, as an abandoned and frightened child inside of a seemingly composed and successful adult. The "nerdy doctor" Gerry was to me, the perfect hero....a man strong enough to be a REAL support to the very fragile Dena. This story is about coming to terms with the past, and making a better life for the future. I adored the supporting cast of loving friends and family working to help their "lost child" stuck out in the "REAL" world. I cried, I laughed.... I got chill bumps! This was an excellent read, and I highly recommend it to anybody that wants to understand the meaning of life!
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Summary: Utterly charming!
Review: I thought that "Welcome to the world, Baby Girl" was a very charming and friendly book. It does not have finer intellectual points or any other fancy stuff, it is just a good read for a rainy afternoon. The author made the setting of the story come very much alive for me and the characters were very believable. Thoroughly enjoyable!
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Summary: The Best Book in the World!
Review: I have just started to get into reading books and until now, there hasn't been an author that I have loved all around. This book had it all. It was funny, sad, and completely enthralling. I just gave my copy to my mom and recommend everyone read it. I can't wait to pick up other books by Fannie Flagg.
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Summary: What a surprise
Review: I loved Fannie Flagg's other two novels, so I had to try this one too. The way all the seemingly unconnected people and events come together was great. And when we learn the truth about Dena's mother, it was quite surprising and heartbreaking. Flagg is a first-rate story-teller.
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Summary: BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN STORY OF ANGUISH AND HAPPINESS
Review: This is the first book I have read by Fannie Flagg and quite honestly, I wasn't expecting much. Actress turned Author aren't usually the credentials I'm looking for when picking out a book so you can imagine how incredibly pleased I was with the talent behind the writing of this book. I enjoyed Flagg's ability to take us from the present back to the past and further back at times; always returning to the present once again. Although some have expressed their dislike for the main character Dena, I found her to be so very real. While others liked Gerry, I found him rather bland but much can be said for a man who idolizes you above all others. I was lost with the Tennessee Williams scenario and sometimes feel that authors have a scene in mind to place in a book and they are going to get it in there no matter what. Dena and her descendants have lived tragic lives at times and I was happy to see that someone found happiness. I have since gone and purchased the other two books by Flagg that many of the other reviewers of this book have mentioned. I look forward to two more good reads by this author -- Fried Green Tomatoes and Daisy Fay.
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Summary: This is NOT Fannie Flagg's Best Book
Review: I love Fannie Flagg, Lord knows I do, but this book was, well, it wasn't "Fried Green Tomato's" and that's what I was looking for. It is a tiring read that leaves you only remotely interested into what happens to the characters. I believe a lot of these characters could have been cut out. The reader might be frustrated because of the lack of explainations for events, especially when, at the end, everything is suppose to come together in a nut shell...but it doesn't. Seriously though, don't spend your time on this book unless you're a big Fannie Flagg fan, like me.
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Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes it's not.
Review: Fried Green Tomatoes was a delightful book and I found the characters interesting and well-developed. Baby Girl leaves alot to be desired. The story wasn't easy to follow, particularly in the beginning. There was much bouncing around and I kept having to look back to make sure I kept things straight. The story became more and more predictable as I got further along in the book. In the middle of the book, I started to like it more but about 75% of the way through, I couldn't wait for it to wrap up. The characters weren't people I felt that I knew. I almost didn't care what happened. I wanted to try so hard to feel for her, but I couldn't. In a nutshell, there wasn't much interesting about Baby Girl's life. I wanted to tell her, "Comon girlfriend, get it together!" There wasn't alot of originality in this book. And no recipes. :) I give it three stars...disappointingly.
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