The Help is a combination of many things I generally don't like:
- multiple perspectives
- writing that often does not conform to standard spelling (so as to match the characters' voices)
- a page count well over 400
- and--because I'm a contrarian--a #1 position on the NY Times bestseller list.
5 comments:
I loved it too!
Yikes! Over 400 pages...That's a lot of pages.
I am actually reading this book right now. What an amazing first novel for Kathryn Stockett. Too bad you aren't in the Chicago area - she is hosting an event in Winnetka, IL (just about 15 miles north of where I life) this upcoming summer. Not sure what the ticket cost will be, but given how impress I am with her book so far, I think it would be worth the cost.
Absolutely! I completely agree on the delightful read..and a first time author to boot...It made this unpublished author ask, "Why even try when there's SOOOOOO much talent out there already?"
i haven't read it yet, but i've heard so. many. good. things!! just curious: does it involve a love story at all? (like, a happy one?)
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