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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: Fried Green Tomatoes is a GREAT book. As corny as it sounds, this really is the kind of book that will make you laugh out loud just as much as cry. (It's a good thing I was reading it alone, or everyone around would've thought I was crazy!) All the citizens of Whistle Stop, plus Evelyn, become so real that it's more like having a conversation with some of your best friends than like reading a book. I saw the movie a couple years ago and loved it, but the book is 10 times better.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: If I recommend only one book out of all the books I have read recently, it will be Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe. It is a beautifully written story that is immediatley engrossing. If you liked the movie, you'll love the book. You owe it to yourself to read this charming, touching, beautiful adventure into America's past.
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Summary: Wow...Read This Book
Review: This was an excellent read! In 1985 two women meet and develop a frienship. Through this friendship, Ninny Threadgood takes Evelyn Couch on a journey of past times. Ninny, a woman in her eighties, and Evelyn, a middleaged woman, meet often in a nursing home to share treats and conversation. Ninny spins the tale of her home town and it's inhabitants. She tells stories of love and hurt, happiness and hardships. Evelyn who feels lost and uncertain embraces Ninny and the Whistle Stop adventures. The journey is equally important to both women. It allows Ninny to remember and embrace the past and aids Evelyn in creating her future. The tale is of an old railway town and it's cast of characters. The reader will be swept away into the lives of those that live in Whistle Stop and surrounding area's. This a very funny and touching novel. We witness and experience many hilarious antics and corageous acts of love. Flagg does an excellent job at creating realistic characters with much depth and dimension. I am so glad that I discovered Fannie Flagg! I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: If there were a million stars, I'd give 'em to this book
Review: I borrowed this book, which was (incongruously) written by the actress and comedienne Fannie Flagg, from a lesbian friend and never ended up giving it back. She left town, and I'm sorry, but I kept the book and have read it again and again and again and again and again and have never grown tried of it. Wanna be tempted? Let me quote a couple of lines from the book that will make you get teared up if you ever get teared up: Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone. Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be. Eva didn't know about a lot of things, but she knew about love. Sipsey was still in the cafe, wagging her finger up to the ceiling. "Don't you do dis, Lord .. don't you do dis to Miz Idgie and Miz Ruth ... don't you do this thang! You hear me, God? Don't do it!" "That's right. And there's something else I want you always to remember. There are magnificent beings on this eart, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don't ever want you to forget that. You hear me?" Then he turned around and headed for the yard to hop a train south, to Alabama. He wanted to get out of Chicago, this wind that whipped around the buildings was so cold that it sometimes brought a tear to a man's eye. Naughty Bird went inside and ate three buttermilk biscuits with honey. After she sealed it, she went over to the window and looked up at the blue sky. She took a deep breath of fresh air and felt her heart rising like a kite that some child had just released to the heavens. She sat there on the ground, her elbow bleeding, old and fat and worthless all over again. The door of the cabin opened, and a freshly bathed, powdered and perfumed woman with rust-colored hair and apple-green eyes said, "Come on in, sugar", as Idgie drove away. Onzell had her eyes closed as she was singing, but she felt the room fill up with sunlight that had broken through the clouds. The warmth of the sun made her cry tears of joy. As she covered the mirror and stopped the clock by the bed, she thanked her sweet Jesus for taking Miss Ruth home. After that, all Peggy ever had to do was take off her glasses and look up at him, and he was a goner. It would have been wonderful, too, if Evelyn had known that the young woman who shook her hand had been the eldest daughter of Jasper Peavey, pullman porter, who, like herself, had made it through. They each understood what the other was feeling. It was as if, from there on, the two of them mourned together. Not that they ever talked about it. The ones that hurt the most always say the least. ... But Artis was still way up in the woods, with his barbecue. Suddenly Evelyn didn't feel cute anymore, and she wanted to go home. Evelyn stopped the car and sat there, sobbing like her heart would break, wondering why people had to get old and die. And the card was signed: "I'll always remember. Your friend, the Bee Charmer." The great novelist Rita Mae Brown, who for a while was Fannie Flagg's lover, has written of this book: "Her aunt's story was a great story. I told her she could soft-pedal it. Just write the women as she remembered them. I helped her with the structure. This was the novel that eventually became "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe". Fannie doesn't need my help anymore. I'm very proud of her." And one last note: Few novels get made into movies that are just as good. If you get teared up while you read "Fried Green Tomatoes", you will howl when you see the movie. It's that good. Get the book and the movie both - you will never regret it for a moment.
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Summary: 'Fried Green Tomatoes...' classic for all
Review: The book didn't really have a plot or a theme; it was just a bunch of mixed up stories. Going between Mrs. Threadgoode telling Evelyn stories of days past and Ruth and Idgie living in those days past, was confusing, but it made the story all the better. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was a wonderful book that was full of the southern local color. Fannie Flagg did a wonderful job of bringing each of the characters alive. It was almost as though they were real people. Throughout the novel the reader almost becomes a part of each of the characters. The way Flagg gave each character such personality made becoming a character so easy. Between Idgie's boyish-ness and Ruth's subdued feminism, the contrast made them as characters that more compatible. Another contrast of complimenting characters was Mrs. Threadgoode and Evelyn. Mrs. Threadgoode was an outgoing, very talkative woman, and Evelyn was quiet and shy. The novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café deserves five stars. The character embodiment, the spellbinding stories, and the true-to-life settings made this book a true modern day classic for anyone willing to read.
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Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Review: Book Description: This novel that takes a look into people's lives that are much like you and me wasfirst published in 1987. It captures severaltime periods ranging from the late 20's all the way up to the late 80's. It is a novel about simple people and theirlives. As that may seem dull, it is far from that. It's humor and constant suspense is what makes this novel unlikeany other. Review: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café has unique writing techniques,relatable characters, and extravagant themes. It's unique format of having a different character talk in each chapter,is what provides the great insight that this book has. You get to know each character, unlike otherbooks. It's relatable characters are warm, friendly people that make the reader wish theywere friends with them. Readers can seethemselves or someone they know in one of the characters, which makes this bookso relatable. The extravagant themes ofalways staying true to yourself and it's never too late to change bad habits,are ones that could be used in everyday life. All will enjoy this novel. As some of thecontent may be too mature for those of 7th grade age and younger, itstill provides valuable lessons that should be learned by all. It is a suspenseful book, thus making it aquick read, and simply is just a great novel.
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Summary: Can't put it down
Review: Set in a quaint Alabama town in the 1930's and in a nursing home in the 1980's, this wonderful novel explores the lives of four women. Each women speaks with a strong voice and the feminine spirit is loudly present. Racing back and forth between the 1930's to the 1980's, each woman has a unique and bright personality. In the nursing home, Mrs. Threadgood regales an insecure Evelyn Couch about her past in Whistle Stop. Idgie and Ruth, two women in love, start a cafe during the depression and are kind and generous to all that need their help. Idgie had rescued Ruth and her unborn child from an abusive husband, later falling back on the town for support when accused of his murder. Each character struggles with some kind of problem or issue, but always comes to a shining conclusion that everyone can learn a lesson from. This novel openly explores the strong issues of homosexuality, discrimination, independent women, and getting older gracefully. This is one of those novels you look forward to reading and are sad when it's over. You'll miss the characters and wonder how they faired after the last page is turned. This is truly a wonderful book.
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Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Review: (394 pages)- Book Description: Evelyn Couch visits the Rose Terrace Nursing Home to hear tales from and 86 year old woman, Virginia "Ninny" Threadgoode. Mrs. Threadgoode grew up in Whistle Stop, a small, railroad town. The story of Idgie Threadgoode's life is told from Ninny's stories, Dot Weem's newspapers, and first hand accounts told from the time they happened. Idgie, a tom boy, grew up as the pet of her oldest brother Buddy Threadgoode, the town's sweetheart. After Buddy's untimely death, no one could console the torn up little Idgie. Only Big George, son of the Threadgoode's maid, could come near her. That was until Idgie fell in love with Ruth Jamison, a Reverend's daughter from Valdosta, Georgia. The story unfolds as Ruth and Idgie grow together and open a cafe in their town. Conflicts arise throughout the novel, including when a man formally Ruth's husband, Frank Bennett, comes up missing. Review: Fried Green Tomatoes at theWhistle Stop Cafe is a beautiful depiction of the South from the 1930s to present and has an interesting, thought-provoking story. The short chapters make this book very easy to read and quick to understand. Chronological order was apparently thrown out when Flagg began. Concentration and memory prove important as the book jumps from year to year and from place to place. The story line and characters provoke the reader to be enthralled and amused. The time jumps keep one wondering and guessing as the book goes on. This novel deals with death, racism, the importance of every human life, and the kindness in many people's souls. Flagg did a wonderful job of playing out these character's lives. -Kailyn Derck
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Summary: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Review: Review Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe not only captures the heart of readers, it captures their minds. The book is a wonderful perspective on twentieth century life in the south. It not only shows the life of one small family and one small town, but it shows how inspiring people's stories can be to one another. This winding tale of small town Whistle Stop, in Alabama, combines wit, charm and suspense in the story of dozens of characters and their intertwining lives. The book is told in many different view points that show the reader the lives of three women: Idgie and Ruth, who own the cafe and began their lives together in the late 1920's, and Evelyn Couch, the mid-life crisis woman who is listening to their story from an old friend, Ninny Threadgoode. Evelyn listens intently to the struggles of Idgie and Ruth and from them learns to take control of her own life again. Ruth and Idgie obviously struggle to raise Ruth's baby boy after she leaves her abusive home in Valdosta, Georgia. Ruth and Idgie have completely compatible personalities, and together open up the heart of the town (the cafe) to support themselves and their new found family. Evelyn Couch, on the other hand, is trying to decipher what her life is about as she struggles with obesity and self-security. By visiting Ninny Threadgoode once a week she learns about an eventful and secretive past that sends a remarkable and persuasive message. Fried Green Tomatoes is full of suspense and drama and is captures hidden many parts of southern history that unfolds with every page.
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Summary: Much better than Daisy Fay
Review: I had read Daisy Fay and the Miracle man and I must say it was not my favorite book. But I loved fried green tomatoes filled with the sweetness of the south and even features the recipes from the book. This book fills you with compassion for the less fortunate and a hatred for racist and sexists alike. You come to love all thew inhabtants of whistle stop and will laugh and cry right along with them. So will Evelyn Couch who is having the story of this town told to her by Ninny Threadgoode and will never be the same agian.
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