Sea Glass/Abridged

Rating:
Summary: Compelling....
Review: I loved this book. The language and descriptions are beautiful, the characters are mostly compassionate (except for Sexton, who engages us with a bit of ambivalence), and I loved the landscape-- a New England mill town at the start of the Great Depression in 1929. The characters weave around one another, finally meeting, to have their lives and their emotions intertwine. Ultimately, it is a sad book, but an engaging journey.

Rating:
Summary: Fabulous
Review: I couldn't put this book down. I loved the characters,
the time period and the setting. I felt like I was at the
ocean with them. MY FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Rating:
Summary: Deadly Dull
Review: Save yourself the money and a huge waste of time - this book was one of the most intensely dull I have ever read. The hopping back and forth between characters was tedious and the characters themselves poorly defined. Shreve eventually decides to try to tie them all together and winds up creating a ridiculous farce of an ending. The whole "sea glass" schmaltz was a cheap and nauseating way of trying to create some kind of romance in this disjointed and, may I say again, BORING novel.