Fantastic! 5 stars! ( )

An orphaned Patrick Dennis goes to live with his Auntie Mame in the 1920s.

Not as funny as I remember from when I read it 50-odd years ago but it still does have its moments. ( )

Really an entertaining and funny read. The author's protagonist uses her life and money to do good among her peers: dismissing the bourgeoisie and the snooty and the racist with class and tact. While I was reading it, I found myself dreading the part where Patrick would be a grown man with a family, and auntie Mame would be old and dying. I couldn't bear to think of that forever-young personality as ending. To my relief, she remains at the end as young-at-heart and full of life as ever, and I guess she always will. ( )

An original. A lovely springy novel, with unlooked for depths.

My one complaint is that Burnside is a NORTHERN name. The most famous Burnside was a union general. There are some maybe as far south as Kentucky. But not that Southern... ( )

A fun, OTT read. Liked that the vocabulary usage was extensive. So many modern books use a stripped down word choice. Sure they tell the story but English has so much more to offer. Some social commentary that seems just as relevant today as when it was written in the 1950s. Some pretty good double entendres. ( )