Thorn Birds

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Summary: the best book
Review: I couldn't put this book down. I stayed up half the night for a week reading it. It is a touching story, romantic coming of age!Sort of a dissapointing ending though. Still worth the five stars. I loved following Meggies life!

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Summary: The best book ever!!!
Review: There is no other book like The Thornbirds. How could Colleen McCullough dream up such amazing situations and beautifully in depth descriptions. It made me feel so deeply the pain that the characters themselves went through. I cried for them more than I have ever wept for myself. When I read this book I had my own image of the characters. When I saw Richard Chamberlain as Ralph, though, I thought, "That is not how I could have ever imagined him". The book described him so gloriously. Meggie became my favorite female; she was so innocent, naive, and sheltered, but always so strong. She developed greatly as she grew up, into quite a lady. I always wanted Meggie and Ralph to be together, but when they finally were, on Matlock Island, I realized that I couldn't really be satisfied with happily ever after or always apart. And that feeling the others' pain so deeply was rare, even in real life! This is the most well-written, lesson teaching, and beautiful novel I have ever read.

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Summary: A Teenage girl's opinion
Review: I first read this book when I was thriteen. At the time, I had never read a love story more beautiful. One interprets Meggie life to be both tragic and wonderful. The reader can't help but be envious of the great love between Father Ralph and Meggie. Colleen McCullough's understanding of human nature gives a depth to what might seem on the surface to be yet another paperback romance novel. She creates sympathy in the reader for even Mary Carson who creates many of the problems for the beloved main characters. This is definitely a novel that can be enjoyed by anyone that believes in true love and sacrifice.

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Summary: The movie and the book are my all time favorites
Review: I saw the mini series first. It had such a lasting and emotional effect on me I had to read the book. The way this book is written, is so moving and the characters really seemed to stand out. I found myself laughing at times while crying others. Even though I have seen the movie and read the book hundreds of times, I still find myself hoping and praying for different outcomes. The book reveals so more information than the book and it fills in alot of gaps. I wish that there was another miniseries to show about more of the earlier lives of the mother and father and maggie's brother's and also, I would like to see more of Richard Chamberlain;s character's upbringing. By far this is the best book written. It should be listed as an American Favorite.

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Summary: Beautiful plot, beautifully written piece of literature
Review: I must admit that I did shed more that a few tears on reading this book. Often, popular books either have a good plot or else they are well written...well this one had both of them combined. Wonderful!!!

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Summary: This is one of the best books I have ever read!
Review: I received a copy of this book some time ago and it's so tattered and dog eared now because I've read it so many times. I fell in love with the book once I got through the first page. The whole story is written so brilliantly that nobody could possibly get tired of the story. You haven't lived until you have read the Thorn Birds or at least seen the miniseries.

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Summary: Talks about how the book is written and the feelings in it
Review: This is a book of eternal love, life, tragedy, God, fate. It is amazing how McCullough manages to express every detail of the emotions Meggie experiences and how she builds up the characters throughout the book so that by the end they seem like real people. She has got the balance between tragedy and happiness, love and hate just right. It is never too much and never too little. I could hardly put the book down and I have never read such a lovely book and I thoroughly recommend it.

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Summary: It's sooo Good!
Review: I'm 14, and this is really the first "adult" book I've read. I read it under the suggestion of my very rigorous Englsih teacher...and I couldn't have picked a better book to begin with. This is a story about Meggie, who falls in love with the Archbishop of Australia, none other than her friend Ralph. The reader will come to love Meggie despite her selfishness, and also Ralph, despite his choosing Meggie above God. Yet, there is a moral in this story: you can do anything you want, says God, but everything comes with a consequence. This consequence, no doubt, weighed heavily upon Meggie and Ralph as the only evidence of their love was washed away into the sea...

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Summary: A Tremendous Book
Review: A tremendous book. Makes me want to visit Australia

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Summary: This was the first book I didn't have to read!!!
Review: Shortly after graduating high school I found myself married to a Marine whos job took him away all to often. A very wonderfull librian at Camp Lejuene turned me and to this novel and many more such as A town like Alice.(which was also wonderfull) Before this book I hated to read. Now I can't get enough. This wonderful story and that wonderfull lady in the resource center made me love to read. Thank you to both of these great women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!