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Summary: THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH STARS TO RATE "THE UPPER ROOM"
Review: ...I can tell you this: "THE UPPER ROOM" is the best fictional book that I have read since 1985 when reading "The Color Purple". I will simply say the book is about a woman who is very overprotective of her child (LMAO while remembering the story). Mary Monroe receives 20 stars from me...5 for the excellent grammar, 5 for her intelligence, 5 for being unique and another 5 for "The Upper Room" simply being a DYNAMITE story. Words cannot describe how marvelous "The Upper Room" is!!! I read many books regularly and many of them are very real. Additionally, I feel it is fine to use slang when writing certain stories because slang terms often help the reader more able to grasp the story even better, but I also feel when writing the author should know how to write intelligently. For example writers should know the difference between TOO and TO and not make as many grammatical errors as a certain author we all know of. I surely hope someone is in the process of creating a movie, because if not I would like to attempt to approach Hollywood about an Upper Room project. Ms. Monroe, you are one seriously off the hook, chain, rack,(and all those other terms) writer. In concluding my review, I would like to inform anyone who is not sure of purchasing the book, that you will absolutely lovvvvve it. You will NOT be able to put the book down until your eyes are nearly dead in the middle of the wee hours lol. ******************** ONE MARVELOUS MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: STILL loving Mary Monroe!!
Review: After previously reading God Dont' Like Ugly and the sequel God Still dont' like Ugly I was already aware that Mrs. Monroe has some major literary skills. After the Upper room she shows me that she is still as good as ever. Meet the characters:Mamy Ruby: The meanest big woman you ever want to see and the craziest. She has healing hands and is also the devil. She is known for saying things like "Ain't nobody but the devil done teched me and made me big as a cadillac. Ruby stole her best friend's stillborn baby and ran off. She is also wanted for a lot of murders. Maureen: Ruby's daughter that she stole from her best friend. She has to stay in the upper room or else.......
Virgil: Ruby's son and accomplice in a lot of murders committed. After moving to Florida, we meet Fast Black, No Talk, Loomis, Yellow Jack, Snowball the albino and a host of other characters that will have you laughing and crying thoughout this whole book. Did Maureen ever find out she was kidnapped? You have to get this book to find out!! You will not be disappointed, I promise.
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Summary: The Upper Room
Review: After reading "God Don't Like Ugly", I was eager to read "The Upper Room". Hats off to Mary Monroe for another drama filled novel with unforgettable characters. Mama Ruby was 400 pound amazon with healing hands. Don't cross Mama Ruby or you may come up missing. Pick up a copy and see what all the talk is about. Blessings to Mary.
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Summary: can you say FABULOUS?!!!!!
Review: After reading this book I am still perplexed as to why it didn't do well iniatially. This book really demonstrates how talented Ms Monroe is. To have the imagination to develope these characters is awesome. This book in every since is an example of artistic talent!!!! Ps. Ms Monroe, thanks for taking the time to assist my little one on her venture to follow in your footsteps!!
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Summary: UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS
Review: As a novelist, I always appreciate the ability of an author to create in-depth characters. Mary Monroe truly has the gift. Ruby is one character that I will never, ever forget. Ruby is an emotionally disturbed, obese, Christian woman who has more issues than 8 or 9 characters in other novels have put together. She killed her husband, the father of her son Virgil, after he tried to run off with a white woman, she "chatizes" anyone who gets in her way. In other words, she does them in and buries their bodies wherever she can find a vacant spot. While she professes to love the Lord and attends church regularly having grown up as the daughter of a preacher, Ruby manages to convince several people that she is the devil incarnate outside of church hours. After her childhood best friend, Othella, has a stillborn baby, Ruby who served as her midwife, is about to bury the little girl when she starts moving. Ruby has always wanted a daughter and jumps on the opportunity to raise the little girl who she names Maureen. Ruby flees her hometown and finds a home in the Goons, outside Miami, hoping that Othella never discovers that her daughter is still alive. She makes a special place for Maureen upstairs and calls it "The Upper Room." No one is allowed in the room with the exception of Maureen, Ruby, and Virgil. Ruby believes that if any other man entered the room, he would bring the devil with him and turn Maureen into a whore. Ruby knows about being a whore firsthand because, even though she is extremely unattractive, she was allowed to work in a brothel in a two-for-one deal along with Othella. There is just so much to this novel but I will not give anything more away. You just have to read it for yourself but The Upper Room is a treat of a read and I can't wait to hold serious discussions about it. Mary Monroe is a true storyteller, a rare find, and after reading both The Upper Room and God Don't Like Ugly, she has earned a place among my favorites. Reviewed by Zane
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Summary: Somebody Needs To Come Down
Review: Awesome is to weak, mundane and cliche a word to describe the literary tour de force that this book is. While some may have laughed from beginning to end, I failed to see the humor. I was disturbed from beginning to end. I guess personally I'm in a different place and the book spoke to a part of me that didn't think anything about it was funny. Let me rescind that. A woman marrying a man for albums and then running off with said albums only to be hunted down solely for those same albums is pretty funny. :)
Ms. Monroe is very gifted and I wait for each of her books with baited breath. I'd also like to say that any publishing company who didn't pick this story up and market it like the art it is, should simply close up shop forever. She has a knack for taking the grotesque and making a character that in some of our lives, occupies a place in all of us. Whether it's an aunt, grandmother, neighbor or the lady that runs a candy store out of her house, we know a woman you just don't play with like that. This is an exceptional story with wonderful and vivid characters.
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Summary: this book was good
Review: even though i loved her first book better(entitled God Dont Like Ugly) this book was still the bomb. its about this lady named mama ruby who is suppose to be a christain but is always going around "chastizing" people if you cross her. basically she is a chiled stealer and on top of that she is a murderer. well in this book, it takes you through the life of her daugher maureen who is mama ruby "daughter" and her room for the sanctified known as the upper room, and the life and the things that they expereinece. even though this review might not explain much the book was good, and i cant wait for her next one to be realeased. good job once again ms monroe
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Summary: Mama Ruby
Review: Fast reading,intriging, funny & thought provoking!!
This book is now on my list of all time favorites, a must read, must share, a must discuss, excellent novel. Im not really sure how we missed the initial release of this masterpiece, but this second release has had a wonderful impact on all who have read it. Encore Mary Monroe!!
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Summary: I read a lot of books, but this one, I highly recommend!
Review: I discovered this book while trying to find the upcoming, God Don't Like Ugly, which immediately sparked my interest. Upper Room was hard to put down. There are many colorful characters and Mary Monroe really knows how to let it all hang out. It's packed with "laugh-out-loud" humor. I loved this book and I plan to give copies to friends when it's re-released.
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Summary: Big Mama is Bad
Review: I enjoyed God Don't Like Ugly so much I was waiting on Ms. Monroe's next novel. A must read. It truly is a page turner. Big Mama won't let you put it down.
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