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Summary: Simple yet deep
Review: This book is wonderful. I am not going to give an entire synopsis of the characters, as that has already been done. However, the characters are more real than any I have come across. This book draws you in completely, leaving you unaware of anything except Whistle Stop. While many things are perhaps idealised and and seemingly simple, the complicated plot and the deepness of the characters easily makes up for it. Although it does seem simple, many deeper issues are delt with. This is an amazing story of transformations and love. A book hasnt truely affected me in this way in a while. It is a must read book for anyone and everyone. Very enjoyable.
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Summary: Great Book! I love the Southern Charm
Review: This book was about the friendship between 2 sets of women and how their lives were changed for the better. The first set of women is an 80 year old woman named Mrs. Threadgoode and a 40 something year old woman named Eveyln. Evelyn is visiting a nursing home where her husband's mother is living. Due to the lack of a relationship between the mother-in-law and Evelyn, she waits in the waiting room on the weekly visits. This week she meets Mrs. Threadgoode. It is here where the older woman, embarks on journey by telling the story of Whistle Stop, Alabama and the family and people who lived there. Through her story telling, you get the tale of the 2nd set of friends, Idgie and Ruth. Evelyn and Mrs. Threadgood slowly start a relationship and it is through the older woman and the tale of Ruth and Idgie, that give Evelyn some of the strength and courage that she didn't have.This is one of the very few books that I give 5 stars. It was so touching, so warming, that I was sad that is was over. I loved the Southern Charm and I sometimes I wish I could jump in the book and join the characters. Fannie Flagg did a wonderful job, making her characters come to life. The novel, by far, is indeed much better than the movie
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Summary: Predictable & Sentimental
Review: Fried Green Tomatoes was a readable book. I haven't seen the movie, but just thought I would start with a simple book after a reading "drought" (you dun wanna know). Though peopled with charming characters and interesting events, I can't help but feel that the entire book was too idealised and over-perfect. Perhaps that's what a writer is able to do, write about things out of the reality. Among the most unthinkable situations was for the Threadgoodes to be so open and receptive of the obviously homosexual relationship between their daughter and Ruth. For those times, they must have been very progressive, or just plain unrealistic. The presentation of black-white relations is oversimplistic and shallow, it is dealt with in a right vs. wrong way, which is hardly as easy when it comes to the real issue of race relations. In discussion of families, communities, life in the south, race relations, dealing with development and progress in a modern world as well as the change in values, Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" is definitely superior in everyway to "Fried Green Tomatoes". OK read for an occasional laugh and the recipes given at the back.
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Summary: A favorite! Would give it 8 stars if I could!
Review: This book is a trip. It's a trip in space, a slow train ride to Birmingham, Alabama and a little nearby town called Whistle Stop. It's a trip in time to the 1980's, to the 1950's and 30's and all the way back to the turn of the century. It's a trip through the minds of ordinary people who have led full and varied lives. It is told from the points of view of a number of different characters, many of them residents of Whistle Stop during the hard times of the Depression. Their world is so real you can taste the buttered biscuits, hear the horrified screams of witnesses to train accidents, laugh at Idgie's shocking antics and cry at Artis' lot in life. Although this book is hailed as a comedy, and is very funny in many places, it is really about everything in life--life and death and laughter and tears, boredom and deep thinking and insanity and revelation and, as the blurb puts it, "even an occasional murder." I also like it because it has a touching, non-explicit, very sensitive portrayal of a true-to-life lesbian relationship. I know this review was corny, but I can't help it. This book is so much fun to read and really ISN'T corny. That's all I can say.
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Summary: *Great Book*
Review: Fried Green Tomatoes At Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag is an excellent story about a middle aged woman, named Evelyn Couch, who befriends an elderly Mrs.Ninny Threadgoode. Mrs. Threadgoode tells the tale of her life and the people at Whistle Stop, Alabama. What comes along with the story of Ninny's life is the story of an amazing friendship between two very different people,Ruth and Idgie, who are the owners of the cafe. I really like this book and enjoy reading it. I like how Mrs. Threadgoode's story effects Evelyn's life. It was interesting to see how each character dealed with the many problems that came up in his/her life. The ending is really good and complete. Fried Green Tomatoes at Whistle Stop Cafe is a funny good-hearted story. I recommend it to high school age and above.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This book left me stunned, I loved it. I just was looking for a book in the school library, and I saw a book with a cool looking name. I picked it up, and started reading. I started to read every once and a while, and then I couldn't put it down. Some things suprised me so much (but I don't want to give anything away), and it seemed like I was right there in Whistle Stop Cafe or the Rose Terrace Nursing Home. This book was absolutly GREAT!
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Summary: Make Alabama Proud
Review: Fannie Flagg is a true contribution to the south. She has made the south proud with her outstanding way with words.
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Summary: Beautiful, Inspirational Story
Review: This book changed my life. It's practically my Bible. I love it because it has so much faith in people. The underlying philosophy is that people really are good and can do great things. It makes you feel like you can make a difference, if you're good to be people and love and care about people, which is something anyone, rich or poor, old or young, can do.
A wonderful, rich plot with a colorful cast of characters, this book is perfect except that it fudges up dates sometimes. But that is not enough to take away a star. This book is essential for all women, and for all men who are cool enough to read abook that is mostly about women.
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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down!
Review: Wow! I LOVED this book. What an incredible mixture of characters and a plot that will have you looking forward to the next page. You will love the protagonists, hate the antagonists, and you'll be dying to discuss all of it once you've finished the book. I guarantee that you will indentify with at least one character in at least one situation. Do yourself a favor: read this book and forget the movie. The movie was good, but doesn't hold a candle to the book. Naturally.
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Summary: This is my favorite novel ever
Review: If I could give this book six stars, I would.I enjoyed every minute of reading this book. Sometimes I would laugh out loud, sometimes I would cry, and sometimes I would laugh and cry at the same time. I just love Fanny Flagg's humor. She is so genuinley southern, and so intelligent, and this shows in her writing. The story is about "down home" country folks in Alabama back during the depression, when there were fewer people, making each one more precious than today. Flagg displays the ugly side and the beautiful side of human nature as few writers can do. She doesn't need trashy shock to entertain her reader, so you wont find that in this book. If you saw the movie, you still owe it to yourself to read the book, because the book was much better.
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