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Summary: Massive disappointment
Review: I bought this after reading GAP CREEK, which I truly enjoyed. I was so disappointed in TRUEST PLEASURE. He dances around the issues between the sisters and moved entirely too slowly into the meat of the story.
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Summary: Robert Morgan is just too good!
Review: I have yet to find anyone who can match this down home, old tymey way that Robert Morgan can put into his books. If your a bean and cornbread or greens and pot liker kind of person, then you will love his books. It's all about how it use to be and there is allways a love story and the sex is good, but not in a way that would offend anyone. Try this, you will love it.
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Summary: Another great book by Robert Morgan
Review: I loved reading Gap Creek so when I saw The Truest Pleasure on the shelf I decided to pick it up. Robert Morgan is an amazing writer and I truly enjoy reading his books.Ginny and Tom were well written and very real characters. They fought a lot about Ginny's religious beliefs and Tom being a true workaholic but I never doubted for one minute that they were devoted to their marriage and that they loved each other. This marriage teaches us a great lesson, you never appreciate what you have until you lose it. Through the vivid descriptions of Ginny and Tom's workload, this book has made me appreciate all of the modern conviences that we have today even more. This book was well written and enjoyable. I would recommend this book as well as Gap Creek to anyone and I'm looking forward to reading more books by Robert Morgan.
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Summary: Another great book by Robert Morgan
Review: I loved reading Gap Creek so when I saw The Truest Pleasure on the shelf I decided to pick it up. Robert Morgan is an amazing writer and I truly enjoy reading his books. Ginny and Tom were well written and very real characters. They fought a lot about Ginny's religious beliefs and Tom being a true workaholic but I never doubted for one minute that they were devoted to their marriage and that they loved each other. This marriage teaches us a great lesson, you never appreciate what you have until you lose it. Through the vivid descriptions of Ginny and Tom's workload, this book has made me appreciate all of the modern conviences that we have today even more. This book was well written and enjoyable. I would recommend this book as well as Gap Creek to anyone and I'm looking forward to reading more books by Robert Morgan.
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Summary: Truly "The Truest Pleasure"
Review: I loved reading The Truest Pleasure!! It takes pride on my shelf along with my other loved books. It was wonderful how Robert Morgan potrayed the lives of Ginny and Tom. The way Ginny and Tom communicated had too many similarities to my own life. I am now reading Gap Creek and I will be looking for my next book my Robert Morgan.
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Summary: Very Disappointing!
Review: I went looking for more of Robert Morgan's works after I read 'Gap Creek,' which I thoroughly loved, and recently came upon this one. What a disappointment! Yes, this book has authentic mountain dialect in it and good prose, but not what I'd call 'outstanding.' And you do get a fairly detailed picture of life in hard times during the turn of the century in Appalachian North Carolina. However, the book, while similar to 'Gap Greek' in its emphasis on hard work, differs enormously, I felt, in the plotting and storytelling. There is little suspense in this one (it's no page turner!) and many scenes often seemed more like little essays on various tasks and trials of that era. But often these scenes had no link to a story line--and the story line itself was much too simple for me, just no complexity. Also, I found the book very repetitive--it went over the same themes and disagreement between Tom and Ginny again and again, with little advancement of the story. In addition, I didn't find the narrator, Ginny, likeable. I was often so frustrated with her I wanted to wring her neck! In 'Gap Creek,' on the other hand, the female narrator, Julie, is immensely sympathetically drawn and I was very caught up with her and her story. I did feel sorry for Tom, Ginny's husband, in this novel, but that's about as far as I was pulled into this book. The ending that's supposed to be so heartwrenching, by the way, we already know about, thanks to the back cover of the edition I had, so it came as no surprise. But at that point, I was just glad to finish the book and had no more feeling for Ginny at the end of it then I did at the beginning. I did learn that this is only Morgan's second novel, I believe, so maybe somewhere between this one and 'Gap Creek' he really honed his novel-writing skills! I'd highly recommend 'Gap Creek' over this title (unless you want to read it for period history and don't care so much about the storytelling/plotting), but I think highly enough of Morgan, despite this disappointing earlier book, that I'd still like to look up other later books of his--I just can't believe that 'Gap Creek' is the only really good novel he has in him!
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Summary: Satisfies your heart and soul.......
Review: The Truest Pleasure is a wonderful story. Robert Morgan does not disappoint! The strength of the main character, her dedication to her husband, her family and her faith is wonderful. Her ability to try and make all of these commitments come together, and the inner struggle she goes through to attain this is both heartwrenching and inspiring. The common occurence in the lives of these people, particularly illness and death and the manner in which they handle these as a basic element of life are very poignant. It is a story that can make you stop and think about what the truest pleasures in your life are, the things that satisfy both your heart and soul.
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Summary: soul provoking
Review: The Truest Pleasure is a wonderful story. Robert Morgan does not dissapoint! The strength of the main character, her dedication to her husband, her family and her faith is wonderful. Her ability to try and make all of these commitments come together, and the inner struggle she goes through to attain this is both heartwrenching and inspiring. The common occurence in the lives of these people, particularly illness and death and the manner in which they handle these as a basic element of life are very poignant. It is a story that can make you stop and think about what the truest pleasures in your life are, the things that satisfy both your heart and soul.
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Summary: A beautifully written book.
Review: The Truest Pleasure is quite simply a pleasure to read. Robert Morgan writes like a dream. I'm going to look for more of his work. It's evident he's a poet, too, but the writing never becomes precious as it may with poets who also write fiction. This is just beautiful writing, pure and simple, with a story that is touching. The ending took my breath away. A real delight.
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Summary: Truly "The Truest Pleasure"
Review: The Truest Pleasure was written before Gap Creek was but I just happened to read Gap Creek first. I picked up a copy of The Truest Pleasure because I absolutely loved Gap Creek. Let me save you some time. Gap Creek and The Truest Pleasure are THE EXACT SAME NOVEL. Only this time it's Ginny instead of Julie. I'm telling you people Robert Morgan has recycled his story The Truest Pleasure into the Oprah's pick Gap Creek. I'm not even exaggerating. The only difference besides the characters names is that instead of a great life endagering flood in Gap Creek there is a great life endangering fire in The Truest Pleasure. People if you have read one book I promise that you have read the other one. I finished The Truest Pleasure feeling totally ripped off for spending twice as much money on the same book. Don't waste your time. Robert Morgan is a gifted writer and he has a true knack for telling a wonderful story. The only problem is his creative abilities. He can't seem to find a different story to write so he just decides to recycle one story into another. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME!
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