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Summary: A book to share with your girlfriends
Review: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters is a story of true sisterly love. It'll make you laugh. It will make you cry. It's not sappy. It is strong and real and tender and funny. And it's not just about sisters. It's about one woman's relationship with her sister, her best friend, her parents and the lost love of her life.
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Summary: Stop Everythign and Read This Book
Review: Be prepared to stop everything in your life to read this wonderful first novel by Elisabeth Robinson. First of all it's an amazing feat of novel construction that the whole story is told in correspondence (letters, fax and e-mail) form...and all letters FROM the protagonist, movie producer Olivia Hunt...only at the very end do we get a view point from another character. That this technique is so effectivly and poignantly executed is an amazing testament to Robinson's talent.This story of two sisters, one of whom has cancer, will make you laugh, cry and feel like a Hollywood "insider". It will also make you late to bed, late to work, and generally engrossed for as long as it takes you to read it. I hope this is only the first novel of Ms. Robinson's.
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Summary: Loved this Book
Review: I loved this book. It is a funny, witty and interesting story of Hollywood, being a sister, dealing with the medical profession, and working on a relationship. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A little manipulative
Review: Easy to read. But there is an obvious manipulation on the part of the writer, and a bit too self serving. Has a bit too much of a Hollywood way of playing out.
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Summary: Funny, compelling, touching
Review: This is a fantastic book! It's a fun, easy read that's still weighty enough to stay with you for a time after you've finished it. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll highlight lines of text that strike you as incredibly true.
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Summary: tremendous character driven tale
Review: Thirty-four year-old movie producer Olivia Hunt is struggling to put together a deal to develop an adaptation of Don Quixote when she receives the devastating news that her younger sister, Madeline, has leukemia. She is stunned because unlike herself Madeline seemed contented with her recent marriage and living in their hometown of Shawnee Falls, Ohio. Olivia begins flying back and forth between visits to her sibling and the Southern California movie industry. On the flights she writes letters reflecting on life decisions she has made. She ponders about the wisdom of choosing a career over love when Madeline's health proves how ephemeral life is. As she considers running off to New Mexico to be with her only true love and while her sister's health deteriorates, Olivia has the opportunity of a lifetime filming Don Quixote in Spain. Will she choose love in New Mexico or sisterly love in Ohio or overseas fulfilling her greatest fantasy? This contemporary work of fiction is a tremendous character driven tale that enables the audience to see deep into the heart and soul of the lead character, and through her also those individuals in her circle. Though clearly a major tearjerker, the tale keeps from falling into a sappy soap by Elisabeth Robinson's skillful handling of Madeline's illness as a focus of activity by friends and family in which at times the same person will do something gallant followed by frustrated selfishness and guilt. Thus the support cast seems very real, but the tale is clearly owned by Olivia, who displays the dichotomous traits of cynical concern that readers will appreciate while empathizing for her sister. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Bad Beyond Belief
Review: I can hardly believe someone actually advocated the publishing of this novel. It's simply not worth the paper it is printed on. Transparently, it is the author's story, slightly fictionalized and wrapped in a pretty package. The writing and form are terrible. Please skip it and choose something worthy instead. Perhaps Adam Langer's "Crossing California," Dan Chaon's "You Remind Me of Me" or Tom Perrotta's "Little Children."
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Summary: Letters from the heart,
Review: I enjoyed this book. I thought it was well-written and interesting. You'll like it too.
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Summary: Beautiful and unique!
Review: This is a wonderful book of two sisters and life's adventures. Grab a box of kleenex because it will make you laugh and cry! I loved the writing style, made the book just fly by.
Olivia and Maddie are two sisters, drawn together by leukemia and it is all Olivia's faxes and letters to important people in her life or various people she is venting to that we read and get our story from. A beautiful book with depth, although I felt like there was a curtain that some of the characters were hiding behind at times.
You won't be sorry to pick up this book and won't be able to put it down! This is an author to keep your eye on!!!
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Summary: A Cherished Read
Review: A truly cherished story of sisters and the love and life they share. The story is told through letters that Olivia writes in airplanes, on movie sets or in the hospital visiting her sister. I laughed in places and cried in places. Who could have believed that writing via letters you would get to know the characters. Elizabeth Robinson has produced a great read and a memorable one at that. I recommend this book highly.
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