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Summary: Unforgettable literary experience
Review: I read this book 3 years ago while riding the trains around Europe. To this day, when I am conversing on the topic of good books, this immediately springs to mind. It has heart, it has compelling characters, it has something to make you laugh, cry, think, and more. I recommend it to anyone looking to truly experience a good book.
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Summary: More Than A Good Read
Review: When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I was moved by Vonnegut, Kesey, and Robbins. Now I am in my forties and those books don't elicit the same sort of response. This book does. It's the best of the late sixties and early seventies literature with the added maturity that twenty five or thirty years of experience brings. Reading The Brothers K has been a most entertaining reminder of the way things were, the way things still are, and the fundamental values of family life. It has affected my attitude and perspective, even my behavior. I've actually become more tolerant of the day to day foibles of my own three sons (at least temporarily) since diving into the world of the Chance brothers (thank you, David Duncan for that above all). The other readers' comments can fill you in on the plot and characters; I'll just say this -- if a 700 pate book seems too long, just read Book One -- 110 pages. Chances are, you'll be hooked on the Chances, and be the better for it.
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Summary: Life changer!
Review: I loved this book even more that his first book, The River Why (of which I have owned 4 copies). It made me laugh, it made me cry - it WAS better than Cats. This is the kind of book you wish would go on forever. Rich detail, amazing reality, true and deep characters - when will this guy write another?!?!
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Summary: Brothers K and DJD, the best in a long time
Review: I just signed on and this is the first website that I came to. I had to. I read The Brothers K while cross country traveling a few years ago. The Brothers K is the best novel I have ever read. I could philosophize, but I won't. It is a movingly told story of every family. Everett's scene in the church left me in tears and cheering. If I could have any novel with me on the moon...
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Summary: It's all true! This book is amazing!
Review: I just read the first few reviews on this page, and I see now that my reaction is typical. I too have recommended it to anyone who will listen. I count it as one of the best five books I have ever read, and I too was deeply moved by this stunning novel. I grew to love the characters in spite of all that was wrong with them. I never knew where the story was going (DON'T READ THE REVIEW ON THIS PAGE!), and I savored Duncan's whit and humor. What more can I add to these accolades. nothing. Read the book.
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Summary: Best book I have ever read.
Review: I had read Duncan's "the River Why" because it was always in my parents book shelf. I assumed it was because we were from Oregon as is Duncan. As good as that was I had no idea a book could stir me as much as "the Brothers K". Duncan and Jon Irving are the only writers I know that can write characters that you immediately relate to. Once they have accomplished that you are hooked. I have read this twice and will soon read it again. On top of that I have given it to all my friends as gifts and seen many of them place it proudly on the coffee table so that visitors will ask about it. If anyone knows of a better book I would like to here what it might be. It is a challenge I would respond to.
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Summary: i can't remember how many copies i've given to friends
Review: I discovered this book when i was wandering through a town in northern canada along the alaska highway. i was supposed to be doing some work, but the evenings were dull, i'd read the books i was carrying, and so i wandered into the library and managed a short-term loan.the title caught me as a rip-off, and it was a book-of-the-month selection, but i was a stranger in a strange land. i started, and then did almost nothing else for three days. i cried in a 24 hour trucker's restaurant. some reader before me had smoked hand-rolled cigarettes, fossil sediment of his read was layered by alternated tobacco tendriles and smudged ash. it felt like i was in a community with that other book-loaner, and i felt good that i had shared this book with someone. duncan drew me through the characters to look with compassion at others around me. i feel like a better person for having listened to this story. it is a book you will give away but never lose.
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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! READ IT, YOU FOOL!! HURRY!!!
Review: This book was so incredible. If you don't read it you will have missed out on one of the greatest classic American novels of all time... The Chance family is one that everyone should get to know and love. I cried when this book ended-- because it ended. I can't even do justice to Duncan's beautiful, funny, poignant, talented writing... I only regret not having read it sooner-- just think, all those years I missed having the Chance family saga in my life... anyway,... PLEASE, JUST READ IT!!!!
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Summary: So rich, real life pales in comparison.
Review: The characters in The Brothers K possess such originality, color and eccentric qualities that this large work reads like a captivating short story. Duncan covers decades of history with style and charm, making this possibly the best book I've ever read.
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Summary: Brilliantly woven narrative that works on every level
Review: The most moving book i have ever read, and though it feigns simplicity, one of the most profound. Personal and universal at the same time, and BEAUTIFULLY written. I've read it three or four times already (once a year since the year i discovered it) and could read it a hundred times more. It looks like it's about baseball, but don't be scared off by that. It's really about family, love, G-d, war, morality, idealism, injustice, self-discovery, and hope. That sounds like a bit much, i know, but the threads are so brilliantly and seamlessly interwoven, and the characters are so real, that the book becomes a single unified whole. YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!
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