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Summary: Fall On Your Knees
Review: I couldn't put it down! It's definitly a harder read but well worth it. Anne Marie Macdonald did a fantastic job portraying each character and allowing the reader to really fall in love with eachone. I hated to finish this book because where will I find another?
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Summary: Overwritten and overrated
Review: ... I hated his book. I know it is fictional account, but, after a while, I failed to take seriously any of the calamities that overtook the family. I was waiting for a plague of locusts or the rivers to turn to blood. I also found it difficult to sympathize with any of the characters. The most interesting character,Kathleen, is a snotty brat. The long-suffering, selfless Mercedes is a priggish bore. Francis makes no sense. I neither understood her compulsion to get pregnant by Leo Taylor, nor failed to make sense of her sudden transformation from town tramp to housebound eccentric. The mother character was the most frustrating, as we never hear things from her point of view. She turns from immature child-bride to lumpen hausfrau, cranking out Lebanese specialties with
little explanation and no apparent motivation. She is almost a prop character. Most annoying is the style of writing. Virtually every action or occurance in the book must be inferred. At some point, it would have been refreshing to have been told exactly what was happening. And what's with the blurb on the back of the cover about the book being hilarious. I found not the merest chuckle out of this overwrought mess. Thumbs down.
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Summary: Not interesting
Review: What exactly was this book about? The plot was weak as were the characters. I found the book confusing and difficult to follow at times. It's a difficult read.
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Summary: A roller coaster ride!!!
Review: If you like riding a roller coaster, this is like that only you can get off any time you like but you find it so difficult to do! This ... The experiences are rich somehow without a lot of description from the author.....just enough to get you there. This is an adventure, a mystery, a horror, a love story,...you name it...and a roller coaster ride you won't forget!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is so amazing and so well written. I would definitely recommend this book. I have read a lot from Oprah's Book Club but I think this is the best book she has ever chosen!
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Summary: Amazing Book
Review: Fall on Your Knees is not for the faint hearted. The story is told from many different viewpoints, until finally, one understand exactly what happened and why. The author make you work for the knowledge--you cannot read this book without thinking. Fall on Your Kneeds is bound to offend as it is peopled with character who are not neat and tidy, who are good and evil and who have mixed motives. I was rather surprised to find this chosen by the Oprah Book Club which seems to appeal to a less sophisticated audience. Fall on Your Knees is intense and profound. Read it!
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Summary: Beautiful yet ugly! You will love this book!
Review: Read this book! No matter what words I use in this review this book is so good it's greatness isn't even explainable into words.
This has the best book I've read so far. This novel contains so many great suprises, it's full of passion, mystery, love, and betrayal. Ann-Marie MaDonald is a god when it comes to writing this novel. This book can't be subjected to one category of books it's everything all roled into one, and it's written in complete detail, so it becomes a great movie in your mind and you can't put the book down. I have recommended this book to everyone and anyone I know.
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Summary: Dark and foreboding, masterfully written.
Review: Written by a natural born storyteller, MacDonald allows the reader to amble through the insanity that becomes the Piper family. We trip through the abuse, lust, neglect, alcoholism, homosexuality, and the many lies that keep the truth buried so deep, no one will ever unravel fact from fiction. A twisted tale of survivors as well as those that are annihilated by the insanity of a family that continues on at all costs. The prices paid are astronomical when measured against the joys reaped. This is an intense book, marked by a profundity that keeps the reader aware of the sadness that permeates the writing. Writing where the description of even the joyful moments, which are all too few, has an element of sadness shadowing it. At times it became quite difficult for me to read, the story telling was that antagonizing, pulling the reader along like a whirlpool of exasperation, never knowing what would surface. I can only now say that I am glad I continued because it was certainly worth the ride. Kelsana 4/16/02
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: I will never buy an Oprah book club book again without carefull scrutiny. I too am tired of formula writing and am challenged to find books that interest me, I have not however become so desperate as to judge a book positively only because it is different than what is on the shelves. This book is strange, I didn't care about any of the characters, I found the plot unconvincing. Perhaps the truth is stranger than fiction and this author experienced some of these incredible events in life and that might explain how it ended up in print. Tossed it right in the garbage after reading the last page, the first book I have ever thrown away!
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Summary: You'll lose sleep!
Review: "Fall on Your Knees" is the ultimate wonderful read: The story is completely engrossing, and the language is by turns lyrical and shockingly blunt. Just when you think a piece of the story is quietly wrapping itself up, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes your breath away with something new. Beautifully written, and an interesting perspective on the early 20th century, this novel is enlightening and moving...yet it is also a juicy page-turner. I couldn't put it down. One of the best things I've read in a long time.
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