Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral | 
 enlarge | Author: Gayden Metcalfe
Publisher: Miramax
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 4047
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 1401359345
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.230207
EAN: 9781401359348
ASIN: 1401359345
Publication Date: March 16, 2005
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 A great little book! October 18, 2008
Delightful and entertaining text plus outstanding recipes. A great gift idea for special women in one's life. You don't have to be southern!
 Nostalgia for plantation life?!!! July 9, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Apparently I am the only reader who found parts of this book DEEPLY offensive. The author practically swoons over those fabulously fortunate [white] folks who owned plantations. I think we all know who provided the labor force on said plantations. Thus nostalgia for slavery is pretty much undisguised. I quit reading and returned the book to the library at this point. I'm white, but I hate to think what an African-American would experience reading portions of this "humor" book. I'd give it zero stars or, if it were possible, negative stars.
Wonderful May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books I have ever read. Being from Alabama I know that what she says is absolutely true!
Just the recipes alone ... May 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
are enough to justify this purchase! They're outstanding, and so traditional down south that most folk don't even bother to write them down. But the writing - especially ias it relates to being Methodist or Episcopal, and whether your family falls on one side or the other of the politics in your hometown ... it's all good. Just hilarious! If you grew up in the South, you recognize these people described herein - and if you didn't grown up in the South, well, you'll wish that you had!
Buy it - it's all good!
Love,
granny nita
Being Dead Is No Excuse March 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did not know what to expect but I laughed all through the book. The recipes look promising although I have not had the opportunity to try one. I have given this book as a gift and recommended it to several friends. You might find it more relevent if you are from the South and are Episcopalian.
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