A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

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Summary: A story told from the viewpoint of three generations
Review: This is a page-turner! The story-line is fascinating. The characters are real. Reading the opinions of others, it appears that those who had it assigned for an English class found it to be boring....believe me, had they chosen to read it on their own, they would have liked it. It seems that any assigned book is automatically a boring book. If English teachers assigned Lady Chatterly's Lover, the students would find it boring. This novel is interesting and informative.

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Summary: very boring!!!!!
Review: I had to read this book for my english calss and hated it. The book has way to many symbolic meanings. If it wasn't for that maybe it would be a decent book.

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Summary: None too fun...
Review: Apparently, I'm not the only person who was forced to read this for an English class. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't all that great, either. It would have been much better if it had ended after the second section--you had a decent enough sense of closure there. But no, it has to go into this utterly irrelevant and pointless third part. Not a great read, I feel. Sorry, Mr. McD.

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Summary: This book takes you into the lives of three generations.
Review: Starting with the grandchild and ending with the grandmother, you see each person's point of view and how they feel about things. With each different generation, exciting secrets are revealed. This book demonstrates that you can't judge people by first imporessions. As you are lead into the lives of the women, their feelings are revealed and you are able to sympathize with each one as you go along. This book is not like a fairy tale, but it shows life how it really is. This book is not the best book I have ever read, but it makes you think about your own life and how you are affected by the past.

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Summary: The most interesting way of writing I have ever seen.
Review: Instead of telling the tale from the oldest to youngest, Micheal Dorris writes it the other way around. After you start the book you wont be able to put it down. He takes you through the minds of a grandma, daughter, and granddaughter. He leaves you waiting in suspence until the last page.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This book was one of the most interesting I have read. I found the telling of it backwards (so to speak) was both refreshing and enthralling. It made the story more suspensfull, and I just couldn't put it down. And the surprise ending is great!

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Summary: I think this book was overdramatized.
Review: I had to read this book for my english class and i hated it. It was incredibly boring. It did not have any relavent content in the first 100 pages and everything else after that was just extremely unrealistic.

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Summary: It was about what?
Review: Where do I start with this book, first off the authour has some serious issues in regard to the relationships between children and those they should be able to trust. It is too much of a coinsidence that Michael Dorris had alegations poised against him of the same nature. Second the book goes no where it brought up all kinds of questions during the entire book that were never answered. This is a disfunctional family portrayed by a disfunctional authour. If there was zero stars I would give it that, I feel upset that I had to pay to read it.

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Summary: Creative and real
Review: I had to read "Yellow Raft" for an english class - I thought that it was well worth reading because it portrays many different aspects of different people's lives. It kept me interested and was intriguing to read about three of the character's lives in one book - and hear their side of the story.

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Summary: Pasts and presents are more alike than different.
Review: This books shows excellent insight into three generations of women. How they each viewed the world and how their experiences in life helped color their views. Each ones experience is unique yet connected to the past of the last generation. The books shows that we never really leave the past behind, but the past influences each generation in turn.