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Summary: a wild ride about love, sorrow, and hate in Southern U.S
Review: Fried Green Tomatoes is one of my favorite books because the book seems to touch the human soul so well. I smiled over Dot Weem's newspaper columns. I laughed about Idgie's childhood. I scoffed at Frank Bennet's murder. And I felt sorrow at the deep racism in the 1920's. The book takes turns being mostly narrated by four women's lives: Ninny Threadgoode: the old and cheery woman who gives strength to Evelyn and tells the story about two women, Evelyn: the failed housewife and a victim of sexism who, in her midlife crisis, turns into the revengeful "Towanda", Ruth Jamison: the gentle wife of an abusive husband, finding santuary in her friends'love for her, and Idgie Threadgoode, strong and wild, the co-owner of The Whistle Stop Cafe, and the "love" of Ruth's life. Together, they weave a bittersweet story about love, friendship, and sorrow that life brings to everyone.
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Summary: It's Delicious-Any Way You Slice It
Review: Comic, poignant, serious, and anything-but-serious-these words and many more describe "Fried Green Tomatoes at Whistle Stop Cafe". It all starts one day in 1986 when fed-up, fat, and 48-year-old Evelyn Couch is visiting her mother-in-law at an Alabama nursing home. Somehow, she meets Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode, whose 86 years have been filled with fried green tomatoes, priceless moments, and the best barbecue in the world at Whistle Stop Cafe. Mrs. Threadgoode begins to tell Evelyn a story-her story as well as the story of Idgie Threadgoode (Mrs. Cleo's sister-in-law) and her friend Ruth Jamison, who opened Whistle Stop's famous cafe and kept life in Whistle Stop anything but dull. There's Idgie's off-the-wall Dill Pickle Club, the town's chatty newspaper (the Weems Weekly), and that murder that never did get solved... Fanny Flagg is an expert author. She has filled a book with the most memorable sort of characters, and each one is special. Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode was the sweetest old woman you'd ever want to meet, and Evelyn is laugh-out-loud funny in her quest for happiness. And as you read about it, you'll think you're really in Whistle Stop. "Fried Green Tomatoes" is truly wonderful, any way you slice it!
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Summary: Yes!
Review: It sounds cliche to say, "I laughed, I cried--two thumbs up," and all too frequently that phrase is applied to books and movies that don't deserve it, but in this case I can't help it. I DID laugh, cry, and give it two thumbs up! Wonderful characters, wonderful plot, and true heart-felt genius, this is a book AND a movie not to be missed. If your're a fan of Southern literature along the lines of DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, or McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD, then you'll love this book. Also, read all of Flagg's books, with WELCOME TO THE WORLD being her second best effort!
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Summary: A Southern Classic!!!!
Review: Although I saw the movie based on this book several times, its only now 15 years after this book was published that I finally decided to read it. And now that I have gulped down the pages, I'm wondering what took me so long to envelop myself with this delightful book filld with Southern charm. And while it's also safe to say than many readers and viewers are now familiar with the stories about Idgie and Ruth and Ninny and Evelyn, rarely does a book today offer such wonderful and endearing characters and a plot which has you racing to the last page. While describing a friendship between two women some 60 years before and a present day relationship between a nursing home resident and her loyal visitor, the reader is set off on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Dealing with subects as far reaching as women's liberation, homosexual relationships, rights of minority groups,integration and growing old, Fannie Flagg never fails to entice her readers and allow them to view a slice of American life now sadly gone. It may have taken me all of this time to finally read a book by Fannie Flagg but if her any other titles are as good as this one, I surely will be in reader's heaven. I already have Welcome to the World, Baby Girl and am eagerly waiting to begin it. Maybe today's the day.
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Summary: Yes!
Review: It sounds cliche to say, "I laughed, I cried--two thumbs up," and all too frequently that phrase is applied to books and movies that don't deserve it, but in this case I can't help it. I DID laugh, cry, and give it two thumbs up! Wonderful characters, wonderful plot, and true heart-felt genius, this is a book AND a movie not to be missed. If your're a fan of Southern literature along the lines of DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, or McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD, then you'll love this book. Also, read all of Flagg's books, with WELCOME TO THE WORLD being her second best effort!
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Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes' Review
Review: I greatly recommend this book to young readers because the story is exciting and complicated. The author, Fannie Flagg, uses events to foreshadow what would happen in the story. These foreshadowing make me keep on reading and to have a desire of finding out what would happen to the characters. For instance, when the author describes how the main character, Idgie, changed after her brother¡¦s death. Because of her brother¡¦s death, she does not wear dress anymore. And she becomes a tomboy who only interested in masculine activities. This foreshadowing makes me curious about how would Idgie¡¦s characteristics affect her life in the future. In the middle of the story, the author discloses the secret by describing Idgie becomes a lesbian. The author develops these foreshadowing naturally and inattentively in the story, and they make me to question the story and thus keep on reading to find out the answers.
Although the story is exciting, the author offers humors and relaxations throughout the story. For example, after Leona found out that ¡¥anger and hate could cause wrinkles¡¦ (P.35), she always threatens Idgie that ¡¥she was going to kill her, but kept a smile on her face while she was doing it¡¦ (P.35). If I picture Leona¡¦s face in my mind, it is funny and amusing. A person smiles while he/she yells at other people, and the only reason for the person to do this is for her beauty. Besides adding humor, the author describes food to make readers feel relaxing and comforting and thus, shortly forget the excitements in the story. The author describes the traditional food in the Whistle Stop Cafe in Alabama. The food that the author mentions in the story, such as snap beans, fried catfish, and fried green tomatoes with milky gravy, are special and different. After the author describing how delicious and wonderful the southern style¡¦s food is, she provides all the recipes at the back of the book. By providing these recipes, Fannie makes readers to believe the accuracy and the truth of the story. In addition, it is creative and unique.
One thing that makes this book stands out from others is that the book has different settings. The story begins with a modern setting in a nursing home with an old woman called Mrs. Threadgoode talks to Evelyn. Then the setting swifts to a 1980s¡¦ set in the Whistle Stop Cafe in Alabama. The setting changed from modern to the past, and it is interesting how the author describes these two settings differently but in details. For example, sometimes when Evelyn interrupted Mrs. Threadgoode when Mrs.Threadgoode is telling her story, my mind can quickly re-imagines the modern scene in the nursing home. And then when Mrs. Threadgoode continues her story again, I can go back to the scene in the Whistle Stop Cafe.
As I mentioned before, this story is complicated. In the modern scene, the author writes a story about Evelyn¡¦s changes in her attitude from hopelessness to hopefulness. At first, Evelyn has no confident in her life because she is fat. However, because of Mrs. Threadgoode¡¦s story about the Whistle Stop Cafe, Evelyn gains confidence again. And so Evelyn shows great perseverance to loss her weight. Although this story is not connected to the major story about the Whistle Stop Cafe, it is meaningful and encouraging. In addition, it is more interesting to read a book when the book has more than one main story.
This book is a great book for young adults to read because the story is interesting and the life of the main character, Idgie, is similar to many of today's teenagers in some ways. Furthermore, the recipes are enjoyable to read even though readers may not try them.
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Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Review: This is Fannie Flagg's BEST book! I didn't want the book to end! This is more an adult type book, but I read it anyways. After you read the book make sure you rent or buy the movie. I have watch it 3 times since summer.
This book has a touch to it that will make you want to laugh,and cry at the same time!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: I just couldn't put this book down. Some parts were funny and some were heart-wrenching, but either way I really enjoyed it. My friend also read it and felt the same way. It is even better that the movie. It is a must read!
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Summary: borrow this audiobook from your library
Review: Use the money you would spend on buying this audiobook to buy the movie -- when they say "abridged", they mean it. This audiobook contains only two cassettes, and while the reading is EXCELLENT, you don't get much more of the book than you get in the movie. So buy the DVD -- you'll get behind the scenes stuff and recipes too. And of course, if you haven't already, get the book. But borrow this audiobook from your library first, to see if you really want to pay for it. Wish Ms. Flagg would do an unabridged version -- I'd pay good money for that!
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Summary: Tons Better Than the Movie
Review: If you enjoyed the movie, then you will love the book. As always, the book ended up being better than the movie by far. I would recommend this book to anyone who asked.
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