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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Credibility Anyone???
Review: This author came highly recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I trust. Instead of starting out with his most celebrated book the Alchemist, I picked up this one. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am with the style in which it is written and the content of this book.

This story is told by a 29 year old woman named Pilar, whose goal in life is to find a husband to settle down with. The way in which she portrays her desires, her fears, her reflections on her essence, her vices and weakness and the way she goes about recognizing them is too immature and unlikely for any woman. I presume that the logic of her thoughts is that simple and naïve is because of the fact that she comes from a small village and is not trained to overanalyze details the way big city people do. But I don't believe that is the case. In my opinion, the author does not do justice to understanding the nature of the female enough to write about it. From the thoughts of this woman, it is clear that it is not written by someone who understands our nature, and the lack of credibility of this character becomes apparent from the first pages of the book.

The biggest disappointment of the book, however, comes from having to put up with so much religious nonsense that becomes part a theory that is absurd. While this story is about the recovery of faith, the process seems very superficial because it is not questioned and there is no internal conflict, the woman blindly accepts whatever she is handed out on the platter and talks about the synthesis of the information as though she's been preaching it forever. Such immediate acceptance of faith lacks substance and credibility.

In the end, this book has its moments, but it's certainly not of the inspirational caliber.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: In the name of the love
Review: Yanina Mussio:Montebello Adult School,Montebello CA.
The Story about two lovers that fought hard in order to be together, the circunstances and the differences that they had tried to separated them even the time and the distance was against them, their furture as a couple looked uncertain. Even they were friends from the childhood and the love that they felt to each other they had to take different ways in their lives, but after a long separation onece again they were together and it was the time to fight for the real love, a love that worth everything, the wait,the suffer and the patience. Love that can overcome any circunstance and bring together all the feelings and mixed them to create a love that will persevere for the rest of the life.


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