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Title: The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts ISBN: 0-446-67505-9 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (167 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Enthralling ! ! !
Comment: The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
The setting of this story is small Town America-Sequoyah, Oklahoma. The "Honk," a small restaurant just off a somewhat deserted highway, is owned by Caney Paxton, a Vietnam Veteran who lost the use of his legs when he fell out of a helicopter. Therefore, he is confined to a wheelchair. The town people often wondered if Caney's manliness still worked.
There are six scenes in the book that truly touch the heart. I will list them without giving the exact details. To find out what this is all about you'll have to read the book.
1.Bui puzzled over why Sam who did not fight in the Vietnam War wanted to kill him and why Caney who did go to war was his friend.
2.The phone call from Carlotta.
3.Information from the man at the old house in Texas and the little tobacco can.
4.The introduction of Caney's son.
5.The bath, rocking, and the ultimate feat.
6.The Dance.
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon is "down-home" and down to earth with true-to-life characters-plain and simple. The author writes in a style that invoked emotions that brought tears, laughter, anger, and compassion.
This story stayed in my thoughts for a long time after reading it. It was as though the characters had become a part of my life.
Rating: 5
Summary: minds and hearts opening soon
Comment: I was initially resistant to reading this book, no matter that I loved Billie Letts' first novel, _Where The Heart Is._ My hesitation, snobbishly, had to do with what I considered to be a "silly" title, somewhat like _Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle-Stop Cafe_ by Fannie Flagg. I only read THAT wonderful book after falling in love with the movie. You'd think I'd have learned.
_The Honk And Holler Opening Soon_ begins bleakly, introducing characters one by one, some of whom have yet to meet. Caney Paxton is a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran and owner of the strangely-named diner (due to a drunken misunderstanding with the sign-maker). Molly O, a woman who helped to raise Caney and also helps him to run the cafe, is dreading Christmas without her country music-singing runaway daughter and is over-compensating by forcing Christmas cheer on Caney and the Holler's regulars. Vena Takes Horse, a beautiful young Crow woman and drifter, rescues an injured dog while thinking of her sister; and Bui Khanh, a Vietnamese immigrant, searches for a new home after an unfortunate car accident. Both Vena and Bui wind up at the Honk and Holler, turning the small-town Oklahoma diner into a veritable melting pot and the lives of Caney and Molly O upside down.
Letts brings to life even the book's more minor characters, causing the reader to feel part of a large and mixed-up extended family. The use of foreshadowing and symbolism might seem heavy-handed in a book of this type (an oriental-looking baby Jesus in Molly O's nativity display; a gelding terrified by the sound of gunshots), but instead lends magic and a not-unwelcome feeling of security due to fate (or the hand of a Higher Power) stepping in where it is most needed. There are a few minor faults, but they seemed insignificant as I was eventually unable to put the book down for fear the story would move on without me. As it catapults to its perfect conclusion, Letts' writing is sure to bring tears to more sensitive readers, including myself. _The Honk and Holler Opening Soon_ is not such a silly title after all, for the "opening soon" applies to the broadening of the characters' minds, the building of new lives, and the irrelevance of race in true caring and friendship. A feel-good story with a universal message, this book shouldn't disappoint anyone.
Rating: 3
Summary: Book is ok, but short of opening something.
Comment: This book was not the worst I've ever read, but it is certainly not the greatest. I didn't exactly understand the joke about Opening Soon, and the whole book was slightly fuzzy, but it made sense in some areas. This is maybe worth a read, but definitely not a keeper.
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