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Wow!!! I have not enjoyed a book like this in a long time. You will find yourself laughing out loud. Though the book is written in the style of journal entries, it is just like Daisy Fay is talking to you herself.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to have the inside track on the people in Daisy Fay's life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to have the inside track on the people in Daisy Fay's life.
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is a touchingly funny story written by Fannie Flagg. Daisy Fay Harper keeps a journal chronicling all of her adventures from the time she is 11 to when she wins the Miss Mississippi pageant. She's a tomboy sort of girl with a Dennis-the-Menace type penchant for getting herself into trouble. She doesn't mean to, it just seems to happen. Her father is an alcoholic ne'er-do-well with lots of grandiose ideas. The kooky locals in the story are lovable, particularly Jimmy Snow. I laughed out loud a lot when I read the book and the story has to be pretty funny for me to do that! I recommend it highly!
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Definitely lots of humor here (but too close to the crude and profane for me to enjoy it all).
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This is a wonderfully written book, from the point of view of a 12 year old girl growing up in the 1950s south, who struggles with loyalty to both her alcoholic father and absent mother. The ending is hilarious.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Fannie Flagg is a wonderful writer. Her characters are very real. This book has it all. Daisy Fay is a great character, the book is funny and sad, and is very well written.
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this book was very engaging and funny as all get out....loved it
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This was a very good book. In fact, I couldn't stop reading it. It is told through the POV of Daisy Fay which begins in the 1950s when she is a little girl. It's very chronological, but includes plenty of flashbacks. She is very precocious, but innocent in most things. I highly recommend this book.
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One of my all time favorites!!! LOL...funny a great read!!!
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Well . . . I didn't care for it. I'm not sure if this was a book for adults or not - I felt foolish reading it because it reads like a Young Adult book. I realize it was written from a 12 year old's perspective, but I didn't realize the ENTIRE book was going to be like that - I thought it was just going to start out that way. If I was in 7th grade, I would have probably really liked it. Just a too bit far-fetched for a 42 year old.
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Although Fried Green Tomatoes... is one of my favorite books, this is the book that won me over as a Fannie Flagg fan. Great characters, great story, perfect balance of emotions - laughter, drama, sadness. Very well-written and captivating.
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Book Description
In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing “I won’t come back until I’m somebody.” But in our hearts she already is.
Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey through her formative years on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. There, at The End of the Road of the South, the family malt shop freezer holds unspeakable things, society maven Mrs. Dot hosts Junior Debutante meetings and shares inspired thoughts for the week (such as “sincerity is as valuable as radium”), and Daisy Fay’s Daddy hatches a quick-cash scheme that involves resurrecting his daughter from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle. Along the way, Daisy Fay does a lot of growing up, emerging as one of the most hilarious, appealing, and prized characters in modern fiction.
In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing “I won’t come back until I’m somebody.” But in our hearts she already is.
Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey through her formative years on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. There, at The End of the Road of the South, the family malt shop freezer holds unspeakable things, society maven Mrs. Dot hosts Junior Debutante meetings and shares inspired thoughts for the week (such as “sincerity is as valuable as radium”), and Daisy Fay’s Daddy hatches a quick-cash scheme that involves resurrecting his daughter from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle. Along the way, Daisy Fay does a lot of growing up, emerging as one of the most hilarious, appealing, and prized characters in modern fiction.
I found this book to be laugh out loud funny! It was kind of like Fried Green Tomatoes, only all of it was from a kid's point of view.
This is one of my favorite books! I laughed out loud the whole book!
I adore Fannie Flagg! This book is so funny and full of wit!
It's a Fannie Flagg book, need I say more?! If you like her style, this book won't dissapoint.
This is a written book from the point of view of a 12 year old girl growing up in the 1950s south, who struggles with loyalty to both her alcoholic father and absent mother.
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This book was a delight to read! A warm and funny story that I hated seeing end.
Another winner by the author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE.
Another no fail Fannie Flagg. She delivers each and every time! I loved this story so much and hated to see it end!!
Great book. Entertainment to the best! A real Fannie Flagg book!! A great writer for laughter. Enjoy!
Fannie Flagg is in fine form as she introduces you to Daisy Fay...a good read.
I am a Flagg fan from way back, and this one was a delight! The characters are her usual unusual mix, and the story is very good.
Author of 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'. Funny, endearing story.
Fannie Flagg is so real.
Histerically funny!!!
Southern style served up with graciousness, hospitality and a box of tissues!
A fun and enjoyable book to read!
great story
If you like Anne Tyler you will like Fannie Flagg.
I love anything by Fannie!
Fun light read. I liked Daisy and enjoyed her story.
Since I loved Coming attractions, I wanted to read more about Daisy Fay. I just got this book in the mail and was SO disappointed to find out that it was Coming attractions with a name change. How stupid is that? It is, however, a great read, whatever the name.
Great light read.
Funny book about growing up on the South. Really enjoyed it, a rollicking read.
daisy fay is coming of age in the gulf coast's shell beach, which is the end of the rodad of the south. the folks who head for florida haven't discovered it yet, but it is a dandy place to meet local VIP'S like hard drinking jimmy snow, former socialite mrs. dot, and daisy's dady who comes up with the mortgage scheme in which his daughter has to return from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle.
Fannie Flagg all the way!!!
Fannie Flagg takes us on a journey to a South that only Southerners know, to a time when "Blue Velvet" was played at the Senior Prom, and into the life of Daisy Fay Harper, a sassy, truth-telling heroine who just can't stay out of trouble or out of our hearts. What's more she tells us everything--from what made her Daddy and Momma split up to what is really stashed in the freezer of her family's malt shop.
This book is not a type I often choose, and by the middle it almost lost me -- just too over-the-top ridiculous... but I sort of liked the main character and so stuck with it. The ending was okay.
I enjoyed this book very much.
What you are about to read... really did happen to me... or maybe it didn't... i'm not sure... but it doesn't matter... because it's true... -Daisy Fay Harper
From the author of the New Your Times bestseller Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
"A hilarious, Endearing Novel!" -Los Angeles Times
"Sheer Unbeatable Entertainment!" -Cosmopolitan
From the author of the New Your Times bestseller Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
"A hilarious, Endearing Novel!" -Los Angeles Times
"Sheer Unbeatable Entertainment!" -Cosmopolitan
this book is soooo funny!
This is a very fun book! A great, light summer read.
Totally enjoyable..sit back and laugh. From the author of Fried Green Tomatoes. Journey to the south right into the life of 11 yr old Daisy Fay growing up in the south, who can't stay out of trouble, or out of our hearts.
Another good read by the author of many funny, nostalgic and heart warming novels (like Fried Green Tomatoes)
I enjoy Fannie Flagg's books and this one is my favorite. A young girl tells her story of living with an alcoholic father who is always chasing his dreams without considering how he is going to support his family. I laughed until I cried when she was riding bareback through town. At the end I could hardly read through the "happy tears".
I have enjoyed all of Fannie Flaggs books.
A funny and enjoyable book with a main character who is as feisty and genuine as they come. Follow the daily life of young Miss. Daisy Fay Harper as you read her journal.
Fannie Flagg can make you feel like you are in the same room as the characters of her books! Great!
Fannie Flagg has a great style that's easy to read.
great and funny read
It's been awhile since I read this one, but I do remember enjoying the Southern humor and Fannie Flagg's unique style of characterization.
fun story about daisy fay harper living in the south in the 50's
Not my normal fare, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Sweet and funny.
Loved Fried Green Tomatoes but I have too many books to be read.
this is a good Fanny Flagg story with a momorable heroine.