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Summary: Journal #8
Review: I gave Love Medicine 3 stars because, although it was an interesting book at some points, many parts of the book were not too appealing to me. At times, reading it made me a bit uncomfortable just because it had quite a few sexual parts in it. Also, the language was vulgar.However, i think that the novel itself was well written. It was iteresting in the sense that it gave me a background about the indians and it also provided a different perspective for me to look at it. As for recommending this book... i dont think that i would recommend it. Also, the many characters are confusing especially because they seem like they are all related somehow.
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Summary: Love Medicine- Defining a Hardship in History
Review: Love Medicine defines a hard period in life for Native American Indians living on reservations located in North Dakota. The book expresses how outside environment variables such as alcohol and segregation from the U.S Goverment play a big role in the character's lives. Louise Erdrich writes a novel about multiple individuals in a family throughout the 1930's to the 1980's struggling to accept and understand each other. No matter how many problems they are confronted with, they have a strong bond allowing them to stay unified. The characters are able to have this link because they only have themselves to depend on.
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Summary: "Love Medicine"
Review: While this novel engrosses you in the life of a somewhat disfunctional indian family, I never really got into the novel. The one positive side is the characters are fairly deep and their are quite a couple intelligent revalations about family. Besides that, the book is a snooze. The stories the author tells are way to drawn out. I never got into the novel, I always felt like I was just reading it. The author never really got me into the indian atmosphere either. The relationships in the book are also not very interesting. If you are looking for a book with family and interesting characters, read The Joy Luck Club, it's better.
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Summary: Journal #8
Review: Love Medicine is a wonderful novel shown to the reader by the individual perspectives of the characters. The trials and tribulations of the characters are unique to them in the materialistic sense, but they experience the emotional turmoil that everyone can relate to. This novel carries us through the never ending cycle of love, hatred, and lust. By opening the door for her reader Erdrich succesfully opens the door to our own souls in which we find the same basic human traist she portrays in each of her characters. I highly reccomend this book for anyone who would enjoy a refreshingly honest author.
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Summary: True Love
Review: I feel that this was a good book in general, but I was kind of offended by the way she protrayed the Indian culture. Maybe she had to do it this way in order to get her point across, but there could have been a better way. I mean she used alcoholism and sex as a main theme is the book, before she got to the real heart of the people. I did like the end of the book when everyone realizes that they do need one another. The book was very nice though and I appreciate the learning experience.
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Summary: American Literature at its best
Review: This was a novel that I entered into unsure of whether it could transcend what I assumed was its genre, and it turned out to be one of the most profound explorations of American culture I've ever been exposed to. A truly complete exhibition of the similarities in all of us that go way beyond the passage of time or the perceived differences of culture and community.
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Summary: A great novel that transcends time and space.
Review: This is a brilliantly written story by an equally brilliant writer. Her novel, which is in fact a multitude of stories, spans generations, cultures, and boundaries. It is an epic tale of love, loss, and the constant opportunity that we may succeed and be made stronger by life's mysteries. It will touch any reader, regardless of race, age, and gender. It is, in fact, a book for everyone--a book about everyone.
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Summary: If you love soap operas, you'll love Love Medicine
Review: liked the book a lot, found it very helpful to make a family tree in order to keep relations straight. perfect book for anyone who likes daytime drama. it starts off weird but gets interesting later on. it puts a different perspective on views of indians who live during the same time we do. it is not about indians running around in moccasins, hollering, and waving around their hatchets. they are just normal people who happen to be of native american descent. you will enjoy.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I can understand the reviews written by people who feel that this book can be spread out and difficult in terms of the number of characters and their complex interactions. I feel that this book is best taken as a sum of its parts, however, and I believe that Erdrich's subtle play of characters and emotions is revealing of what a remarkable talent she possesses. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I am extremely impressed by her successful use of poetic prose, which can be difficult to carry off without seeming maudlin.
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Summary: For book clubs who would rather eat, than read
Review: It's best to maintain a list of characters when reading to keep from flipping back through the pages to determine who beget whom. The ironic humor kept me interested in the book. Unfortunately, there were a number of potentially great themes that were never developed. I recommend the much more imaginative and shorter (about 65 pages) teenage book, "Weetzie Bat",for those interested in the power of love and seeemingly disfunctional families.
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