The Help

Seriously.  I read it.  Won't see the movie.  Ever.

The book is good, but not poignant enough.  To Kill a Mockingbird  is the seminal book to read.  Because it was written in time-context.

The Help is written out of time, in the 21st Century about the 1960s.  The author admits cultural and factual mistakes in time and place, but that is the beauty of the book in some ways: it suspends belief and you want to follow the characters.  You want them to succeed.  You want them to fail, if you've read it you know what I mean here.

Worthwhile, library book.