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This product is perfect for mounting the Garmin when you get tired of having the device falling off the window every two seconds. Since I have purchased this I have not once had to put it back on. It is fantastic!
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Unfortunately, I never received the book. I contacted the seller and he immediately responded and advised the item was shipped TWO days after the purchase. He confirmed the mailing address and since it was correct, it was assumed that it was lost in transit. The seller is in the process of giving me a refund. He was very kind.
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I liked much of this novel but can’t say it is a great book. The main problem is that the author never found a consistent tone for the novel. I call this the “reverse Irving” effect. John Irving is a master at underscoring the ultimate horror in his novels by initially setting a very humorous tone and then suddenly shifting gears. Comedy to horror works; horror to comedy does not. The Help early on does manage to convey the fear of being either an “uppity” black or a pro-civil rights white in the South of the early ’60’s. But the author throws that away by interjecting humor (childish, bad humor at that), starting with the fundraising gala. The book just loses all credibility at that point. The “dramatic” confrontation between Celia and Hilly at the gala is just silly and the Terrible Awful is ridiculous. While it was apparent that the Constantine story would have something to do with her daughter, the resolution of that plot line lacked all credibility — this is the early 60’s, not the late 60’s and the daughter came across as a Black Power radical about five years too soon (speaking of authenticity, no Jew would ever describe Christmas by saying “we call it Hanukah” as Stein did to Skeeter).

Also, the author’s treatment of Celia is puzzling, given that this is a book about prejudice and stereotyping. As written, Celia just confirms all cliches about poor, white trash — her brains are entirely in her boobs. I wanted to see Celia really see Hilly for what she was at the gala, not kiss her ass. Similarly, it is inconceivable to me that Skeeter would care for a nanosecond that Hilly and Elizabeth had dumped her — she had already moved far beyond them by that point.

Finally, and this may be a bit unfair, but my feeling all along while reading it is that this book was written forty years too late. One of the things that makes To Kill a Mockingbird so enduring is precisely that it was written at the time; as such it was a gutsy book to write, and the
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