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Summary: Interesting and Compelling
Review: Meet Martha Horgan. By all accounts she is odd, peculiar, and haunting. Martha is definately suffering from a mental illness. But the question that must be asked is how this illness came to be. Was Martha always odd, or did something unspeakable occur to make her this way? Martha craves to be like everybody else. She is starved for friendship, love, and mostly normalacy. She is often found obsessing about contacting her 'best friend', or lurking about watching people. Martha's obsessions are often disturbing to those around her. Set in a small town, Martha Horgan is a household name, a taboo. Martha, who is relentlessly truthful, does not have the control to hold back, even when it means diaster for herself. Through Martha's truth, she is often victimized by those who she preceives closest to her. A Dangerous Woman is an interesting and compelling read, you will want to find out how Martha resolves all her difficulties. Mary McGarry Morris has created a diverse novel with many twists and turns! Accompained by a diverse cast of characters, A Dangerous Woman is a novel to read!
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Summary: Vivid
Review: Morris is incredibly adept at creating and shaping characters and worlds which live on in the reader's mind forever. This book is at once engaging, heartbreaking and bittersweet. You will find yourself feeling less alone in your uniqueness, which sometimes may come across as awkward. Poor Martha is a misfit you want to shake and hug, but mostly console. Morris illuminates the sensitive, chaotic mind like no author I have ever read. She also reveals humanity's unceasing desire for acceptance and love without steeping the prose in sentimentality. A winning story is what this book is.
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Summary: An incredible book, literally made me cry
Review: Never before have I read a book where the author was able to evoke so much sympathy for the main character, despite being detestable person in her own way. This book will move you and make you think!
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Summary: Captivating read
Review: Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. A very realistic read. I read this book for a book club selection and it generated lots of discussion.
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Summary: Wow, what a captivating book.
Review: This book is about a woman, Martha, who is definitely outside of what most people consider the "norm". She is so different that people categorize her as someone weird, someone to be avoided, someone not to be believed, someone dangerous, to the point that when she is trying to make a point, no one takes her seriously. She needs professional help but no one recognizes it and, therefore, neglects her need. You want to scream at everyone in her life and at the same time yell "No, Martha, no!!!". Her life spirals out of control down, down, down into the vortex until you know she will not come out it safely. Indeed, what happens at the end is truely a tradgedy for Martha.
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Summary: A disturbing rollercoaster ride thorough mental illness
Review: This book was absoultely genius. I have never been more sympathic of a charcter, Marta was heartbreaking, rivitoring, disturbing and yet passionate and self-loathing. The walk through her life filled me with both dread and hopefulness. After reading this book I knew I would never be the same. Hooray! for Mary McGarry Morris for a book that is perfection to the painful, realistic side of human insanity.
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Summary: Intensely written, another winner from Morris
Review: This is a truly amazing author. All of her books have been 5 stars in my opinion. This novel is so absorbing! Morris has captured the tortured life of Martha and keeps you riveted to the story through suspense and compelling honesty. You will not easily forget this story, but that is typical of all the books I have read of Ms. Morris's.
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Summary: Intensely written, another winner from Morris
Review: This is a truly amazing author. All of her books have been 5 stars in my opinion. This novel is so absorbing! Morris has captured the tortured life of Martha and keeps you riveted to the story through suspense and compelling honesty. You will not easily forget this story, but that is typical of all the books I have read of Ms. Morris's.
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Summary: haunting and sad
Review: this novel is for anyone who has ever felt lonely or misunderstood. martha on the outside mirrors what some of us often feel on the inside. i've read "a dangerous woman" about six times and have cried every time over the last paragraph. i recommend all of morris's books-they're equally fine and powerful.
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Summary: Fast-paced, compelling, disturbing , a must read.
Review: This was my first book to read by Mary McGarry Morris but will not be my last. The book makes you realize how the negative social attitudes of people to individuals who are not social acceptable and conforming can result in very negative results to all . Martha was very disturbed. Excessive on beliefs that we look at a a society as being honorable. Where do we draw the line in our beliefs and our actions to defend these beliefs? A great novel about Martha an eccentric character and her struggle to survive in an environment that does not accept her. Lots of plot twists , a definite page turner.
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