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by Kathryn Stockett
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Rabbit Reads
Rabbit Reads rated it 12 years ago
I would like to know a POC's thoughts on this.
Jennifer's books
Jennifer's books rated it 12 years ago
Just loved it! Don't really have anything bad to say about it.
Bookaholic-ness~
Bookaholic-ness~ rated it 12 years ago
Wow! Look at that rating. It's pretty high. I first saw this book when my 8th grade Physical Education teacher was reading it for Sustained Silent Reading. She took like forever to read it. bet she's still not done And then I saw it at the bookstore when I went there for the first time in my life an...
Certified Bed Reader...
Certified Bed Reader... rated it 12 years ago
I'm ashamed to admit that, before previews of the movie started airing, I'd never heard of this book. Why? How is that possible? I have no idea, but it's a problem I soon rectified. I read this book the week before I watched the movie and was so glad I did! The movie was great -- the book even bette...
enyaceleste
enyaceleste rated it 12 years ago
Absolutely loved every page of this book! I am definitely going to write a proper review, because this book deserves one. But I'm not entirely sure what I loved so much about this book. So in order to write a review about this, I have to think real hard, and that hurts. So.
halfmanhalfbook
halfmanhalfbook rated it 12 years ago
This is a book written in the early days of the civil right movement in America. It concerns three main characters, Miss Skeeter, Aibileen & Minny.Skeeter sells the idea of a book about the way that the maids are treated in the homes of the deep south having had her own maid leave without as much as...
lostinadream
lostinadream rated it 13 years ago
This was a good book, i loved the multiple voices of Minny, Abileen and Skeeter. I loved how you really hated Hilly in all her racism. I think this is a great book. Took me longer than it normally takes to read a book this size but that was do to circumstances here at the house.Defiantly a keeper, p...
November News 2014
November News 2014 rated it 13 years ago
A well thought out book.
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 13 years ago
The Help turned out to be more compelling than I expected. The knocks on it pointed towards a privileged-white-girl-saves-black-woman plot pandering to the white need to feel better about USA's racial segregation issue right up until the recent past. That element is perhaps present, but more of Stoc...
Ko
Ko rated it 13 years ago
3.5I won't lie, I could not put it down. But it was a beach read. Absolutely engaging, but once you go home and brush the sand off, too manipulative, glossy and redemptive to be entirely believed.
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