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Summary: A Dixieland Delight!!!
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I was browsing through a bookstore in Chicago last week and came across this book and instantly gravitated towards it. Perhaps this is because I found myself, a southerner, emerged in the midwest, but I was feeling the need to explore the "typical" southern woman which I believe does not exist.
This book is King's memoir of growing up as a Virginian in Washington, D.C. She goes to graduate school at Ole Miss to compare deep southern women with upper southern women. What she finds is the love of her life, a deep southern woman who challenges her beliefs and ideals. This book is a treat and something every lady should read.
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Summary: A modern classic
Review: A bisexual, gun-toting, fiercely southern woman who left the Republican party because they had turned into a bunch of liberal pansies? What's not to love?This is a hilarious memoir with a lot of insights into both southern culture and the human condition in general. I live north of the Mason-Dixon line, and everyone I've recommended read this book has looked dubious at the prospect that it would be worth reading. Everyone I actually talked into reading it loved it. Don't doubt it, this book is a real treasure!
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Summary: Sensitive and Self-Aware
Review: As a feminist and a believer in the individual, I loved this book. Florence King is an intellectual in the best sense of the world, funny and erudite, never shying away from either the very coarse or the very fine. My favorite passage describes her first day in kindergarten, her first time in the company of other children her age (she was an only child). "I was miserable.... Worse, it appeared that I was a child too. I hadn't known this before; I thought I was just short."
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Summary: Wicked, hilarious and rings so true
Review: Having grown up in Chicago with a Southern mother and a Yankee father, I always wondered why my family and its "rearing" techniques seemed so different from those of my peers. Then I read "Confessions," and everything became wonderfully, wickedly, and deliciously clear. I laughed out loud and exclaimed in recognition throughout the book as I saw my Mamaw in Granny, my mother in Mama, my father in Herb, and myself in Florence. Ms. King is a brilliant writer whose observations are at once devastatingly, uproariously accurate yet lovingly conveyed. Her ability to break your heart and make you guffaw through the tears is unique. I have read this book over and over and have lent it to friends all over the country (sometimes it never comes back). Today I am ordering my third copy. I recommend "Confessions" to every reader with wit, intelligence, and a touch of lunacy. It will bring out the Southern in your soul.
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Summary: If you've never lived here, you'd never believe it...
Review: I am a Northen Oregon girl (31 years old *lol*) transplanted in the buckle of the bible belt and boy has it been one heck of a two year trip with two years still to go! I haven't read anything depicting life in the Southern states nearly as funny as this since reading Daisey Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg. This is one book that I share with everyone (while I firmly hold onto my own copy!!) The characters come alive with such wit that you cannot help but reread parts that you just read but could not believe. Florence King has a knack for making you see the lighter funnier side of what is still an obsession er "tradition". Rest assured, here in the South the southern "lady" or modern day "belles" are alive and well. Another great read in this genre is "Hells Belles" which will equally make you laugh till you cry or send you running for the bathroom. Enjoy!
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Summary: Unimpressive
Review: I LOVE this book. I own few books, as I am a cheapskate and prefer to check things out of the library, but I had to buy this one.
It had my snorting with laughter and nodding in agreement as I recognized the basic characteristics of my "shabby genteel" family in Florence's - my house is dirty but the silver is gleaming. I even copied my favorite quotes into my battered Bartlett's.
There are a few books that I must reread every so often - To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, Lonesome Dove and this one. It's a classic.
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Summary: Good Read
Review: I must say the book ended up being not what I expected, I don't want to give anything away.... Funny at times, enjoyable, interesting
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Summary: Not that thrilled by this book
Review: I was rather bummed by this read after all those fabulous reviews. I found it to drag on and on! I did not think it was humorous or ingenious. I just wasn't blown away and I had so hoped it would. This southern transplant needed some downhome nostalgia but came up empty handed.
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Summary: A brilliant book that even Yankees will love
Review: I'm not Southern and I've never been to the South, but I adore Florence King -- and particularly this biting look at Southern culture. King is the daughter of an intelligent, self-educated Englishman and an uber-tomboy mother with blue Southern blood. This book recounts her misanthropic childhood, spent with her mismatched parents and her Old Guard maternal grandmother. She also discusses her college years -- including her fight for a non-secretarial education, the search for alcohol in a dry state and her discovery of her true sexual orientation. (It was truly shocking to find out what barriers she and her partner had to cross to be together.) The book is stuffed with unforgettable characters, quotable lines and alternately hilarious and horrifying scenes.
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Summary: I think she succeeded admirably
Review: If you can read this book without gasping in shock and then holding onto the furniture as you stagger around the room trying to catch your breath from laughing, you are made from sterner stuff than I.
I can't even think the word "digitalis" anymore without breaking into snorting giggles.
One of the funniest, most entertaining, eyebrow-raising books I have ever read.
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