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Title: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen by Florence King ISBN: 0-312-09915-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.81 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Southern Ladies and Gentlemen
Comment: Just like everyone else, I've read and re-read this book until I'm forced to buy another copy - it's the funniest, most accurate depiction of life in the South! Born a Texan and raised in Alabama, I went to school with Good Good Ol' Boys and Self-Rejuvinating virgins (Muffy, are you reading this! ) And I swear, I really did have this devastingly handsome Good Ol' Boy whisper, in the height of passion, that he'd kill for me. Honest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Build a Fence Around the South; You'd Have a Big Madhouse
Comment: Florence King and Molly Ivins are the two funniest contemporary American writers. Miss King writes for the _National Review_, and Ms. Ivins for _The Progressive_.
When I moved to the South to attend graduate school, I dutifully read _The Mind of the South_, to ready myself. I was utterly unprepared nevertheless. I simply had never met people who talked about their ancestors, or didn't know the price of a movie ticket because: "Mah escort always buys the tickets!"
Then, a kind soul told me to read _Southern Ladies and Gentleman_. After reading it, nothing Southern surprised me. Thanks to Miss King, I knew about the tombstone twitch, i.e. geneaologists who desperately wanted to prove they had royal blood, self-rejuvenating virgins, why you never, ever cross
a Dowager, Rock or a Dear Old Thing--three varieties of southern old ladies, and the Pert Plague, that is the tendency of some southern women to shriek loudly and at length about the strangest things. This behavior will greatly puzzle anyone who is a stranger to the south. If you read _Southern Ladies and Gentlemen_, gentle reader, you will UNDERSTAND.
So, if you are about to spend substantial amounts of time south of the Mason-Dixon line, spare yourself much anxiety, and read this book. I predict that once you have read this title, you will immediately want to read everything Miss King has written.
It's a comical examination of the south, written with a stilleto rather than a pen. And yet, that stilleto is an elegant instrument. Florence King is a wonderful writer.
Miss King, I beg of you, write another book, please. Soon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Florence King is the best!
Comment: I was first given this book when I had just moved to NYC from Georgia. My first time leaving the South. My Mississippi-born singing coach loaned me this book, since I was feeling homesick. I laughed out loud so much while reading this on the New York subway that people backed away from me! I managed to scare New Yorkers!! (even if they don't understand that Southern freeze look) It is still hystercially funny after a dozen years of reading it.Buy every one of Florence King's books. They are all wonderfully funny and frighteningly accurate about far too many of my own relatives!
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Title: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King ISBN: 0312050631 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye by Florence King ISBN: 0312039786 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Florence King Reader by Florence King ISBN: 0312143370 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless Secrets to Get Everything You Want in Love, Life, and Work by Ronda Rich ISBN: 0399526277 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Southern Belle Primer by Maryln Schwartz ISBN: 0385416679 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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