The Help

I just finished the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett, and I want everybody to read it!  I loved the movie, and thought I should read the book.  I don't even like the movie anymore compared to the book.  You may have seen the movie and think that you don't need to read the book, but you do!  It leaves you on the edge of your seat after each chapter wanting to read more.
The Help is about Eugenia Phelan, whom everyone calls Skeeter, and takes place during the 1960s.  Skeeter lives in Jackson, Mississippi.  Skeeter was always different from everyone else.  Skeeter wanted to be a writer.  She had dreams of being somebody, unlike all of her friends.  Most of all southern women care about are chasing husbands to get married.  Skeeter never cared about that, but her mom does.  Her mom is always bugging her about getting a husband.  During this time, the Civil Rights Movement is going on.  Nobody treats colored people well, and colored people aren't allowed to do what whites are allowed to do.  The colored women are "the help" for the white women.  This means that they are their maids, and raise their white babies.  All of Skeeter's friends are married, except for her.  She goes over to her friends' homes and sees how the help are treated.  Her friend, Hilly, treats the help especially bad.  Hilly is one of the main characters of the book because she is the most evil of all southern women.  Hilly is always spreading lies about the help and ruining their lives.  Skeeter's old maid, Constantine, was always dear to her heart, so she doesn't see why the help are treated so badly in other peoples homes.  It doesn't seem right to her.  Skeeter talks to Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth's maid, and Minny, Aibileen's friend who was also Hilly's mother's old maid.  Minny especially knows the evil of Hilly.  Minny, Aibileen, and Skeeter wanted to change things.  They decided to write a book about the help in Mississippi, but anonymously.  In the book, they wrote about their stories.  They told stories of what happened when they were maids in other people's homes.   The book, The Help, shows all the things Minny, Aibileen, and Skeeter had to go through during their lives.  This book surprised me by how much I was drawn to it.  I never wanted to put the book down.  It's hard for me to pick a favorite part of the book because I loved every part of it!
Has anyone else read this book?  Do you think the movie or book was better?