Bell Jar

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Summary: Come on, it's THE The Bell Jar.
Review: As I said in the summary, it's The Bell Jar! Of course it's a masterpiece! This beyond fascinating story reads like "The White Middle Class Gifted Girl's Guide to Depression", and I mean that as the highest compliment. A wonderful lesson on how to make that fall from grace w/grace.

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Summary: provocative insight into the mind of a troubled girl
Review: a piece of litereature which evokes emotions and a thought process of an undescribable dimension.

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Summary: It was more than I expected
Review: I loved this book. The writing is unique and every chapter flows right in the next. I did not want to put the book down.

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Summary: " A DESCENT INTO MAELSTROM"
Review: A haunting masterpiece! An extraodinary delineation of a young woman's fragile psyche. A downward spiral from brilliance into suicidal psychosis. A feminine equivalent to J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye." Plath's "Esther Greenwood" outshines "Holden Caulfield" in many ways. The most obvious is "Esther's" honesty, she almost embraces and encourages her psychosis, instead of running away from the harsh reality of life. I highly recommend this book, it marked a cataclysm in my literary life. It surely will change any other young woman's life. Especially if you already feel a kindred to her through her melancholy poetry. In retrospect, one cannot help but wonder what other lyrical masterpieces she would have produced if she had not ended her life at the age of 30.

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Summary: This book was an emonitional roller coster.
Review: This book was a hart pored summary of her life. I respect her writing a she was a great writer. I would recommend this book who is intrested in a author that was crazy. But so talented.

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Summary: Unforgetable
Review: When you first read this book, it hits you like nothing has hit you before. The Bell Jar is a book you must read. The book is very hard to describe, but by the end of the story,you are struck with a bit of wisdom in your heart. I recomend this book to anyone who has not read a good novel in awhile.

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Summary: A book about insanity that makes you feel feel it.
Review: I must admit, I wasn't thrilled to read this book. It was assigned for English Class Summer reading. Yahoo.

BUt I tell you truly, it was worth it. I've never read something that so vividly puts across the feeling one must have in Ester's situation. Hopelessness and suicidal ideas are a constant theme, and it is don so well you look at the problems in your own life in a new way.

Read it.

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Summary: i love it but dont understand it
Review: first of all,i love sylvia plath,i do.i love her writings and poetry but i just did NOT understand the book! it was all too blury and unclear and i just...can't see who ester was and the time jumps comfused me way too much.i just wish i could understand it better :(

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Summary: A thrilling, uncanny and sadly realistic tale
Review: Thrilling because extreme and powerful; uncanny because real and unreal, still and restless at the same time, and sadly realistic because we enter a state of mind which rings a bell in each of us: it rings onto our own "bell Jar".

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Summary: I love this book!
Review: I have read The Bell Jar several times and this book always brings chills to me. I suppose it is because I know that Sylvia Plath's life is mirrored in the book. I first read the book during high school, when Plath became my favorite poet, and I have since read the book about a dozen times. It is a sad tale, but that is what makes it so moving for me. This book is definitely one that I would recommend, but not if you feel it would hit too close to home.