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Summary: WORST BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: I'd have given this book negative five stars if it were an option. This novel has a mind-numbingly boring storyline, with almost zero plot, characters you couldn't care less about, unrealistic scenes, cheap symbolism and dumb 'plot twists'. Why anyone would want to read about a stupid little boy who follows an old con artist around 'curing' people with 'curses' that are probably nothing more than the flu is beyond me. I found it difficult to care about Tony's family and their problems. I felt that it was a quasi-noble effort to represent a struggle between good and evil, considering that no one in the story was pure good or pure evil.
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Summary: Could anyone give me information about Antonio Marez?
Review: I need about 5 paragraphs about him or 25 sentences
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Summary: Worthy of the Premio Quinto Sol
Review: Anaya's dynamic writing style and superlative use of symbolism make for an excellent novel in "Bless Me, Ultima." The storyline is beautifully laid out and character development is tremendous in this masterpiece. Anaya successfully draws the reader into the thoughtful and philosophical world of young Antonio Márez. Anaya uses the quasi-autobiographical voice to capture the perceptual and intellectual limits of Antonio. The narrative voice is neither that of a retrospective, older Antonio nor that of the young, naive Antonio. It is located somewhere in between the two. The author allows us to enter into the llano of New Mexico and makes it easy to empatiyze with all of the characters. If you are looking for an enjoyable book with an important message about life, Bless Me, Ultima definitely delivers.
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Summary: From the moment I picked it up, I never put it down!!!!!!
Review: One of the best books by one of America's great Chicano author
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Summary: A worthy effort
Review: Anaya does a pretty decent job with this book. It is a bit boring a some points, but it is worth the effort to stick with it. If you are interested in Hispanic culture and traditional medicine, this book offers interesting insight.
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Summary: Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?
Review: I LOVED the book because of the message and the lesson it tries to send to all of us. If you really think about it, Anaya is asking us a question that relates to the question: Why do bad things happen to good people? The drunkard was trying to help Ultima, yet was killed in the process by Tenorio, who was not punished for this sin. Later, when Antonio asks God in his dreams to forgive the drunkard, God replies, "I will forgive him, if you also ask me to forgive Tenorio." When Antonio says no, he realizes that he wants a God who is forgiving, yet only to the people he wants to forgive. I believe that Anaya is trying to tell us that we must believe in what we believe in, and not what others tell us to. Just like Antonio, who battled between Mother and Father, Luna and Marez, God and Golden Carp, Ultima and Antonio, we see that at the end, Antonio comes to a conclusion that he is all of these yet only one. He is both a Luna and a Marez. Anaya is telling us to draw from our own experience, and live life like that. Only then will we reach our true destiny, neither good or bad.
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Summary: "Bless me Ultima" depicts what is good and what is evil
Review: i had to read Bless me Ultima for English. It was an assignment. So i started reading the book and the more i read the more i saw what the book was about. So when i got finished with the book our teacher gave us an assignment to do. We had to pick a question that he had writen down a on a sheet of paper which contained a few others. He had also put on the paper, anything that you can think up of. I chose to tell how Ultimas magic affected Tony more than any of the other "gods" that were introduced and i have found out why. The book showed how not everything you believe in is true. It also showed the power of Ultima as in what she could do when the people came to for help , after the priest tried to get ride of what every it was and failed.
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Summary: A wonderful story about one's destiny
Review: A powerful message that Rudolfo Anaya is sending out. A message about the course of life and tragic heroes, growig up and especially about change.
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Summary: A wonderful book...
Review: The reader gets to peer into the emotions of a 6 year old boy: fear, loss, happiness, uncertainty, confusion, love and anger.This book was one of the best ones that I have read. You must leave all of your hang-ups and baggage at the door when you begin this book or you won't be able to be swept up in Ultima, Antonio and the continual fight between good and evil.
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Summary: Why do Tenorio and Ultima seem the same?
Review: If you have read this book, which is a very sorry one indeed, I would like to pose this question... Why do Tenorio and Ultima seem the same? Think about the similarities of the two and you'll see what I mean. If Antonio is trying so hard to distinguish between good and evil, why does the woman he idolizes so much, seem so evil? Antonio wants good, not evil! This book makes no sense whatsoever!!!!
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