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This is essentially a fictionalised version of Susan Tucker’s book, Telling Memories Among Southern Woman, which I’m pleased to see Stockett credits. I loved that book (non fiction) and have come back to it often over the years, but finished it feeling that I would have enjoyed more of the backdrop that went in to pulling it together. Of course Tucker wrote her book at a very different time – post Jim Crow. The Help is a bit of a ‘What if?’ Tucker had done that story two decades previously when the project was undoubtedly much riskier and if she wrote a bit more about how it felt to be putting it together. I enjoyed it and thought it was largely credible.

To address one point Stockett’s detractors bring up – I think she is telling a more sophisticated story than some of the readers who gave her low marks suggest. NY editor spots a naive girl looking for an opportunity. Spots her OWN opportunity to jump on the civil rights band wagon, safe in her office in Manhattan while others get their hands dirty. Who does everyone think REALLY told that television station the name of the town the book was set in? Did the editor care that the maids were at risk or that, as Minny and Aibileen tell her, Skeeter would end up with little choice but to get out of town if she wanted a life for herself? The ‘big job’ she ends up getting, thanks to her editor (maybe), is a copy write assistant’s position on a magazine. Aibileen, meanwhile, takes her job as Mrs Myers on the white newspaper. Everybody’s happy. That editor must be really pleased with herself and her best seller.
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Low priced HDMI cables doesn’t mean poor video and sound quality. There is a nice article with Cnet that explains the in and outs on HDMI and in there opinion you don’t need a thicker shielded cable unless you are running a cable from one room to another. Basically don’t get over charged for for a HDMI cable you only running in short distances around you entertainment center.
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I love this iPod. This was a replacement for my 5th gen. video iPod. I am very happy that I purchased the iPod touch instead of the Zune HD. After researching both products, I’ve come to realize that the iPod customer service is a lot better than the Zune.
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