Answer as a Man

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Summary: Good older hist novel- synopsis from back of book
Review: It was a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century. A world of corruption and greed, where secrets were public knowledge and love was for innocents.

The was the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.

What he wanted most was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason fantasised abiyt her, longed for her from afar- never dreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.

For Patricia had fallen in love with Jason's best friend . And even now was bearing his child. But he loved another...

Thus it began. This tale of tangled passions and the brutal cost of wealth and power.

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Summary: Good, but not the best of its type
Review: READ THIS BOOK! Totally gripping! The book had been recommended to me to be one of the most interesting novels Taylor Caldwell has wirtten. I had heard the author writes with influence from the spirit world and enjoyed the historical details.

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Summary: Answer As A Man
Review: READ THIS BOOK! Totally gripping! The book had been recommended to me to be one of the most interesting novels Taylor Caldwell has wirtten. I had heard the author writes with influence from the spirit world and enjoyed the historical details.

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Summary: Answer As a Man by Taylor Caldwell
Review: This book offers a sense of what it was like back in the 1900s. The story, a marvelous written book, shares the feelings and hardships of a boy, who in this ploit eventulally shares it as a man. This tale of a stong Irish man stuggiling to suceed is meant to be big. It lives up to any readers expectations in my opinion.

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Summary: Good, but not the best of its type
Review: This novel follows a traditional theme. A poor, but ambitious young man (who is of course honest and good) pulls himself up by his bootstaps, etc... It is a good formula, which is why I read these types of books so often. this isn't the best of them, though. It is the first Taylor Caldwell book I have read, and from what others had told me, I was expecting better. The characters are very one dimensional and predicitable (with the possible exceptions of Joan and Lionel). The children are completely unbelievable (if they had only been presented as older, then maybe...). The book isn't bad, but really Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer, anything by John Jakes and East of Eden by John Steinbeck are better.

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Summary: Excellent- Could not stop turning the pages
Review: Throughout the book the main character appears to be a whimp. He seems to let everyone walk all over him. You want to scream at him to do something and when he does you are totally surprised at the action he takes