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Summary: One Star was too good
Review: First there were giants of the literary world: Joyce, Wells, and Wilde, geniuses who had mastered the human psyche and emotions and observed society in a brand new way. Then there was Margaret Atwood, annd she did writeth Cat's Eye and the world did cringe... and the lord sayeth to the world " See what your sins have brought you" and 'twas true, for this book was truly another plague upon the world. In short, we didn't like it. Margaret Atwood is nothing like these people. C.Donkin and G.Powell, two very embittered English students.
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Summary: Am I missing something?
Review: This book drove me NUTS! I bought it because I absolutely love "The Robber Bride," but this one just seemed like a big waste. I spent the whole book waiting for something interesting to happen, but the detached voice of the narrator sucks any excitement right out of the story. But all the other reviewers seem to love it, so maybe you should read it anyway and decide for yourself.
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Summary: moving!
Review: Cat's eye is a view of a life story. Atwood's handling of the parallel narrators, the middle-aged Elaine whose mind wanders back and forth in time, and the growing-up one with her restricted view of her own life is superb. We feel we are growing up with her, from a never-ending looking childhood to a sudden adulthood. Cat's eye is also a record of the passing of time from the 40's to the 80's recognized just in the clothes worn by the characters. Descriptions of smells and colours all through the novel make it so vivid. I loved this novel.
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Summary: excellent! I would recommend it to almost everyone.
Review: I loved the story it gave a sincere and tantalizing story of girl growing up. I walked from it believing that I understood myself and the world a little bit better. The other reviews seemed to be disturbed that it wasn't a happy book? It was a real book! It was hard to think of it as fiction. The discriptions of what Elaine saw and painted and felt, had me wanting to paint and look and feel my own life. (I wish I could write a better review but I read the book over a year ago and picked it up again yesterday reading through it and it inspired to write this. The book was capturing me just looking through it.)
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Summary: One amazing piece of modern literature
Review: Cat's eye is one finest piece of modern literature have ever written. I read this book for my A'levels exam and found it deals with many complex issues and metaphors of childhood to the real world of career as an artist. The only thing is that the heroin tend to have flashbacks anytime , anywhere in the entire book. It will be a bit confusing for a reader to skip a page or two and continue on to the next chapter.
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Summary: It's one disturbing piece of literature!
Review: Cat's Eye brings one to a realm which most of us are familiar of--childhood. But it also introduces us to the things that Elaine wanted to bury in the deep recesses of her mind. Cat's Eye might be disturbing but it's one fine piece of work that everyone should have.
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Summary: Captivating at times but ultimately depressing
Review: I loved Alias Grace and Handmaid's Tale but found this book to be ultimately depressing in an uninspiring way--too much like life in the doldrums or when it lacks meaning and is the most exitential, perhaps. The experiences of Elaine's childhood were deeply engrossing and shocking, but once she moved beyond her friends' bullying the narrator's story lacked coherence for me or any real kind of growth or advanced self-understanding. Maybe I didn't like it because it didn't have anything very inspiring or uplifting or wise to say, and I wanted more from it than concerns about one's dowdiness, cellulite and wrinkled skin and all that is lost. The writing about her brother and the childhood times was strongest to me--the parts about the brother and boys really sang. The older Cordelia did not seem quite real nor did Elaine's about-face. I think it is a fine book and would never put down Margaret Atwood or her artistry but this is a story that bummed me out in the end. Life can be that way surely, but I like to come away with something more than I got here. I did like what I thought might be glimpses of Atwood's own views about her talent and fame--seeing Elaine's art as Margaret's writing.
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Summary: whose memories?
Review: When reading the last chapters, I had the feeling that the main character's memories are mine. Not all writers can do this.At the back of the edition I read there was a short interview with the author about the book and she mentioned that reading is second only to experience. I think she really meant it. She gives you experience that only your mind can tell apart from your own. I haven't read a book comparable to "Cat's Eye" since Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" or Sylvia Plath's "Bell Jar".
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Summary: EVERY SENTENCE IS LIKE POETRY!!!
Review: Not confusing poetry, though. This book isnt cluttered up with too many characters, it's a tale of a woman in search of her friend and is enscribed ever so beautifully. I LOVED IT!! Two Thumbs And Three Toes Up!
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Summary: psycological masterpiece
Review: Atwood is a beautiful and a capitivating writer. She inspires me to be introspective with my experiences and to realize there importance to my becoming a woman. She can make a metaphor, that is so deep, they sidetrack you for a minute just to feel them. I'm so glad my teacher introduced me to her writing.
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