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Summary: Good book
Review: The Deep End of the Ocean is a book about a family of five and at the beginning of the story the youngest boy, Ben, gets lost. I like how the book was laid out. The author did a wonderful job expressing emotions of the mother and the oldest brother but she lacked detail on the sister and father. Through most of the book, you get every little detail about the mother and the son, but at the end, you don't know what happned to the family, it just ends. I didn't like that very much. The book was ten times better than the movie. I would read the book over and over if I had a choice of reading the book or watching the movie. I give the book four stars because of the lack of detail in the daughter and father, but everything else was wonderful. I could not put it down when I started reading it. I felt the emotions of all the characters, I wanted to cry when the mother did and I got frustrated with her when the father was mad at her for not being a good mother. Right now, it is my favorite book.
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Summary: Excellent Book!!!
Review: While opening the book I knew that it wasn't something to be put it down. The way that Mitchard portrayed the mother was inspirational. I experienced every emotion that she felt; I cried and prayed that her son would return. This was the most enthralling book I have ever read.
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Summary: Very Good, but Incomplete
Review: This book has over 400 pages of every parents WORST nightmare, and it goes into it in a way that is really diturbing... why?... because it could happen... and, it HAS happened.I really don't think any of us has the slightest clue of how we would react to something as tragic and terrifying as that, and in my opinion, Jacquelyn Mitchard did an excellent job in describing what ONE MOTHER did, how she felt, and how all her world changed in 10 minutes. I agree with some of the other reviewers... she's is not a highly likable character, but, under the circumstances, who would be?... She's not your picture perfect mother... but then again, no one is... still...the author makes you feel what she's feeling, even if you don't understand her... and her family. The reason why I put 4 stars was that I felt the book was a bit incomplete, because we never find out so many things that in my opinion should have been explained... also... in the end, we really don't know what happened to the family, and after NINE years of KNOWING every single detail, it was a bit hard to let them go. Over all, a good, entertaining, but extremelly frightening book. However, I would love to ask the author a few questions that remained unsolved...
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Summary: Words cannot describe it
Review: I had be looking for this book for awhile & when I finally got it & read it, I was very pleased. This, out of many books I have read, is my all time favourite. I just loved everything about it, the characters(Vincent was my favourite), the plot. It was a moving story about this family shaken by the kidnapping of their 3 year old boy,Ben & how the family deals with it, their changing of behaviour towards each other. Perhaps if you are a mother, it might not be a book for you because the whole idea of your child being kidnapped is very scary. The ending of the book was a little disappointing yet satisfing. I highy recommend this book. Happy reading!(Oh, and don't forget to watch the movie after-which I just did!)
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This book is fantastic! The way she writes it is wonderful and very descriptive. You really get to understand all of the characters, realizing a lot about what they are going through when they lose their middle child Ben. Beth is the person I am sure you will understand most. Instead of just wondering, "how could that woman do that?" you really know why and how she is feeling. This book is so detailed! Although it isn't all that desriptive in phisical ways, the emotions are so clear. I highly suggest this book! It's long...but I was stuck to it! It's a book you can't put down!
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Summary: Not for mothers
Review: I was highly dissapointed in this book. If you are a mother of children you know how impossible it is to live like this woman lived. As well as the fact it is impossible to have a favorite child, one may do something you like more than others but there is not favorite. Also you can not know how it feels to lose a child unless you actually have, I know what my mother went through when my brother passed away, and well frankly this book barely touches on those feelings. The story doesn't explore very many things in depth except the mothers feelings and the oldest childs feelings, however the author goes on all these sub plots that she tends to leave hanging. I would not recommend buying this book,it isn't worth your time.
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Summary: It's Deep Alright.....
Review: The quote on the front of my book says "Riveting..twists that will spin you around." I don't know who at Newsweek wrote that but I'm just an average Jane and not once was I "spun around" by something that happened. It was a very depressing book, not riveting. I picked it up and put it down several times, not really caring about the shallow, selfish characters and the only reason I even finished it was because it was the only book in my bag during a long plane ride.
A child, Ben, is lost and found again after several years. The book goes through these years focusing on the mother (who doesn't seem to really love any of her children) and the older, tortured, brother who "told Ben to go away." This 447 page book could have easily been trimmed down to 150 pages for a better story.
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Summary: The ocean is too big
Review: The book definitely has potential.
Jacquelyn Mitchard took an average kidnapping story, and put a twist on it. Instead of focusing on court cases, she writes about how the loss of Ben disrupted the family.
Instead of creating a mother who wants nothing but revenge, Mitchard depicts a mother who feels guilt, rather than pain, for losing her baby boy. The guilt drags the mother down till she turns away from the rest of her family.
By writing from the view-point of both the mother and Ben's brother, Mitchard allows the reader to see the emotions of two characters. What makes this so intriguing, is that the reader can then see how each character feels about the other.
However, it's tiring to read 200 pages about a mother who keeps throwing herself overboard, and refuses to surface for air. It's suffocating! The book drags. It's as if Mitchard was unsure she was getting her points across, and so repeated herself just to be safe.
However, the story is okay- it has a neat twist that happens about 3/4 of the way through. If you have a good amount of time on your hands, then read it, it's entertaining. However, those who, like me, try to squeeze five minutes of free time between work, eating, and sleeping, should read something else. Life is harder to squeeze than a lemon.
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Summary: The worst book I ever finished
Review: Too bad there isn't a zero-star rating. The reason it got such a lot rating: I figured out every one of the plot twists 50 pages before they happened. Michael Crichton also puts plot holes in his books that are large enough to drive a truck through but at least you don't recognize them way ahead of time.
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Summary: The best book to read for a challenge and fun!!!
Review: This book is the best book I have ever read. It made me laugh, cry, perspirate, and feel joyful. Although it is over 400 pages long, it is a great book to read for fun. I liked the author's description and detail. It was like I was the mom or Vincent(the chapters are written in different points of view.) This book is based on real life, and it is written so. It makes me feel the sorrow I would have felt for the whole family, and especially the mom. The story is a wonderful novel of a mother who has the destiny to find the one thing she has been looking for. I give it 5 stars without thinking twice about it.
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