Where The Heart Is (unabridged)

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Summary: Pass by this one
Review: I was very disappointed in this book and didn't even bother to finish it. If you like dysfunctional lives go ahead. Personally once I read about a man being attracted to a 12 year old girl the rest of the story seems a bit of a waste. I prefer books that are pleasant to read and not brutal. Call me strange but I'd read any of Jan Karon's Mitford books 10 times over than start another like this.

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Summary: The Heart is in the Heartland
Review: I very much enjoyed Billie Letts work in Where the Heart Is. It was a quick read and very easy to get into. Being form Northwest Arkansas, I was familiar with the names of the small towns mentioned and could feel the generosity of the people living in the community. It reminded me a lot of my own hometown. A very heart-warming story!

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Summary: Where the heart is
Review: This was a very good book! It was very hard for me to put down. Novalee is a great survivor and a perfect example of the working poor in America. I recommend this book whole heartedly to everyone.

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Summary: Where's the beef?
Review: I found this book sugary sweet and the characters unbelievable. Sorry...I really tried to like it. But the book reads too much like a Hallmark card.

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Summary: Great Beginning
Review: This is one book that you don't have to read the first fifty pages to "get into" it. It grabs you from the start with great characters and poetic justice.

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Summary: abridged version was GREAT; now want to read book . . .
Review: or see the upcoming movie . . . very touching story, beautifully told . . . only wish that the unabridged version had been available.

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Summary: Hollywood will like this one
Review: I really wanted to like this book. The writing is deft and flowing, and I wish thie world was as sweet as this book, but it is not. Billie skims over her characters' lives, too many are just cute eccentrics with little or no substance. Worse, however, is the shameless and predictable manipulation of the reader's feelings. Perhaps I am an old cynic, but our dear Novalee is just a bit too perky for me. Oddly, this character also appeared in Stephen King's Bag of Bones, also with the cutest daughter, also falling in love with a middle aged man..somehow, perhaps wrongly, I feel these writers are patronizing these women by making them a little too sweet and ernest. This is not a bad book, just very dissapointing.

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Summary: A great weekend read
Review: I started reading this book on Thanksgiving Day and finished it by the following Monday. The book is engaging with its eccentric characters, its lighthearted way of dealing with the pitfalls and tragedies of life, and its overall message of love and redemption. I'll be looking for more Billie Letts books in the future.

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Summary: Where the Heart IS
Review: The book Where the Heart Is was a book that I just could't put down. Novelle was a strong and powerful character. Although her boyfriend left her in a Wal-Mart,young and seventeen years old,that never stopped her from hoping and dreaming and overcoming her bad contacts with sevens.I look forward to the next book.

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Summary: Where the Heart Is review.
Review: The book Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, is a very good book. I really enjoyed reading it. It tells of a girl with bad luck with 7's and how she has a baby in Wal-Mart and how her life changes thereafter.