I couldnt get enough of this book. intriguing from beginning to end.

Books are always better than movies. But I did not expect just how much feeling Katherine Stockett put in those pages. A story of grace, courage and hope. Read everyone.

I loved this book. I felt like I was there reading about the lives of these women. It captured the politics of society and the nightmare that racial hate colored people and those that supported them lived with. It covered so many truths. Not just racism, it didn't ignore anything. It spoke of the truth behind wealth and society and although its main focus appeared to be about the colored maids of the south of how evil and kind their employers were. It reflected how the ugly taste of slavery is still in the mouths of some of the employers of these colored women. Others maids were considered family. It spoke honestly about the choices that men make about the women they choose to spend their lives with.. I loved how miss Celia fought off that attacker and how she well I won't ruin one of the best scenes in the book. I am so happy for Miss Skeeter and I thought it was a great thing to have her mother go into remission you want to be inspired by the power of possiblity and it doesn't always have to be looking down. Sometimes there are great victories. Thank you Kathryn Stockett.

Set in the troubled deep south of the sixties where racism is rampant, the story of a group of white women and their black maids is told through the perspective of three different individuals, both black and white. You will cringe as well as laugh out loud as this brilliant story unfolds and plunges you into the world of the domestic help that is so deeply involved in the everyday life of their employers yet treated so sordidly.
The narration couldn't have been better. The southern accents of the 3 women telling the story added that much more to an already rich narrative. Great story, well done, absolutely loved it !

I loved this book, I cheered for them, cried with them and couldnt put it down. I was sad when it was done.....also the movie is great as well....

Once you start you wont be able to put it down!

This book was an inspirational masterpiece all around. Skeeter's fine determination and amazing ability to strike the lives of other's from a whole different point of view, the help, was absolutely heart warming. She went through facing legal situations, family, and friends while keeping her faith and pride just to see another side. The things that the help has to go through is unacceptable and disgusting. The courage that Skeeter brings out in herself and all The Help is just beautiful. All the characters played a key role in this book and it is a masterpiece between morality and immorality. This book is great for young teens and adults. I find this to be one of the best books I've ever read.

This book was an inspirational masterpiece all around. Skeeter's fine determination and amazing ability to strike the lives of other's from a whole different point of view, the help, was absolutely heart warming. She went through facing legal situations, family, and friends while keeping her faith and pride just to see another side. The things that the help has to go through is unacceptable and disgusting. The courage that Skeeter brings out in herself and all The Help is just beautiful. All the characters played a key role in this book and it is a masterpiece between morality and immorality. This book is great for young teens and adults. I find this to be one of the best books I've ever read.

Wow - what a story, it is divided between three women: Skeeter, a young daughter of plantation family; Aibileen, an older woman who works for Elizabeth that cooks, cleans and helps minds her daugther & son; and Minnie, who is a middle-age woman that is a firecracker of a person that worked orginally for Ms. Walters, then Ms. Celia. It takes place in the late 50's/early 60's in the Southern part of the USA (Mississippi) where there was segration and hate crimes/killings to those of colour. All three ladies come together with unusual circumstances which creates quite a commotion, let's see where it will leave everyone. I don't want to give away the story, so read it already! Recommend

After receiving the movie ‘The Help’ for Christmas, I immediately went out and bought the novel. There are some differences between the movie and the novel, but that is expected, but I love both the movie and the novel (I guess more so the novel because the writing style really gives you an insight into the characters and gives you a lot of history of each character). Stockett’s writing is very genuine, and it makes for an easy but very enjoyable read. I found sometimes I could not put the book down because there are parts where Minny is narrating and it is just so funny that you do laugh out loud, and then there are other parts that are just so gripping that you feel like you are right beside Aibileen, Minny or Miss Skeeter. The novel is very insightful in regards to how White people treated the Black people, making you realise-to an extent-what it was like for Black people in the 1960s.

I wasn't sure that this would be my kind of book, but after hearing so much about it I decided to give it a try and I'm so glad I did. The characters are so authentic and the perspectives they share are powerful. While the movie was well done, it doesn't compare to the book! It is now one of my favourite books!

I had heard nothing but good things about the book, but when I read the back I thought, this is not the kind of book I would normally enjoy but took the chance anyways. I am so glad I went for it, this is easily one of the best books I've read. It has so much emotion and I felt so connected with the main characters. A must read!!

This book was really good, i reccomend people who love heaertfelt novels, to read this one. I really loved this book and hope you do 2!!!!!!!

It truely is the characters that make this book wonderful! Go out and pick this book up today!

This was an amazing book and could not keep it down.

This book is awesome beyond belief! I love how it had three narators. This book has love, sorrow and humor! It has a little bit of everything, and has something for everyone. A definate must read, even for those who already watched the movie.

Whenever I see a movie before reading the book, I find it insanely difficult to make it through the book. With The Help, I found it insanely easy. I saw the movie first, but the book was just so amazing that I had no trouble at all getting through the book. That in itself shows how great of a book this is. The story is amazing, and Kathryn Stockett's writing style is one of the best I've ever read.

“The Help”, simply put, is an outstanding and heartbreaking novel from rookie novelist Kathryn Stockett. The richness of her writing is beyond commentary. I found myself cheering out loud several times in the book. The beauty of book is how it is told between three main characters, all with different emotions, yet all similar at the same time. I couldn’t stop thinking of the story and characters. A classic novel.

I loved this book. Kathryn Stockett did such a good job portraying all the women in this book. The story was fantastic, I couldn't put it down. It had me laughing and crying, as corny as it sounds. The emotions in it were so real, I felt like I knew them and it hurt when they hurt. Definitely a must-read!!!!

I had heard great things about this book and wanted to read it before I saw the movie. I was hesitant to read it, though, because of the setting: Mississippi in the 1960's. I was afraid it would be too upsetting. The author does a great job of writing from the perspectives of three characters. She even successfully switches to third person omniscient to 'report' on the Benefit. I loved this story. It is surprising that all these kinds of things were happening just a few short decades ago. Hard to believe it was Stockett's first novel. She writes beautifully, describing "a horseshoe of hair left" or a "sigh, long and slow like a deflating tire." You really care what happens to the characters and you cheer for and boo them accordingly. I wish some loose ends would have been tied up, though.