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Summary: great!
Review: wonderful read, i do not have any sisters so i can feel her want,but her female influence is something i wish i had growing up.
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Summary: Worth the Journey...
Review: Not only did Jacob's family become real to me, I felt privileged to travel beside Dinah as she wove human element into biblical characters! Excellent read!
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Summary: This is a phenomenal story!
Review: Ms. Diamant has done a remarkable job in telling Dinah's story, a little known character from the early books of The Bible. She introduces us to another time, and a far away place. This book is especially interesting for those of us not so familiar with The Bible and it's story tellers.I was riveted throughout the book. The women and men in this story have their jealousies; fears; joys and sorrows, just like you and I. Diamant's ability to put you right there in the Red Tent along with the women of Jacob is an amazing feat. The stories they tell and the companionship they share makes for wonderful reading. Listen carefully, mind that you don't wander off into the dust. Dinah, the one with the musical name, has a grand story to tell. Enjoy every moment of it.
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Summary: Not worth twenty minutes of your time....
Review: I read this book for my book club - and I wish I didn't. It is written at about the fourth grade reading level. The liberties this author took with the bible is astonishing! Why don't we just all rewrite history to suit our feminist whims and be done with it!? This was hugely disappointing. I would have preferred she make this a fictional story about that period of time instead of insinuating it is a woman's version of the bible. What dribble, what gall! Consider this a badly written romance novel with a great PR machine out there trying to sell it. Horrible!
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Summary: Brilliant, Profoundly Moving Tale of Mother & Sisterhood
Review: This is one of the most extraordinary novels I have ever had the pleasure to read. Anita Diamant brilliantly captures the texture of Biblical times through the eyes of the wives and daughter of the founding father of the nation of Israel: Jacob. Dinah, the forgotten daughter of Jacob who narrates this extraordinary tale, grows up in the shadow of her famous brothers, but as the only daughter of the clan, she becomes the repository for her female kin's stories, carrying their legacy forward into a future that is at once horrifying, and uplifting. I have rarely been as moved by a book as I was by THE RED TENT; I have never felt any connection to my Jewish heritage until I read this book. My father's family are descendants of the Levite tribe of Israel, and as I read Dinah's extraordinary story, I felt as if I were reading about my own ancestors. And this is where Diamant really shines - beyond the mere historical facts of this tale lies a deeper, more profound truth: we are all the sum total of our ancestors, and each of us is responsible for carrying their stories and spirit into the future. Or as Diamant more eloquently puts it, "There is no magic to immortality...Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name - two syllables, one high, one sweet - summon up the innumerable smiles and tears, sighs and dreams of a human life." THE RED TENT is the ineffably moving tale of an extraordinary life.
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Summary: Comments on Red Tent
Review: A wonderful book and a deeply interesting story. Diamant does an outstanding job transporting the reader into the life of Dinah and her experiences as a woman in ancient times. I could not put the book down and was sad to turn the last page - I just didn't want it to end!
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Summary: A brilliant look a biblical women's society
Review: Diamant has created a masterpiece here. Her prose is straightforward and overwhelmingly honest, and the story she weaves is one that makes the book nearly impossible to put down. Dinah, the narrator, although living in the times of the biblical characters Jacob and Esau, shares the universal sentiments felt by all women today. Reading the book is like being invited into a sacred circle of womanhood, where secrets are shared freely and each person is a member of a greater family. It's a great read and one that leaves you thinking afterwards.
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Summary: A very disappointing book
Review: I had high expectations for this book, but it was flat and insipid. The author rearranged historical fact to suit her story and in the end, it just wasn't interesting at all.
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Summary: A Great Biblical Drama
Review: The Red Tent is extremely well written and a tribute to the author. From page one the writer captivates the reader and the story lines get better and more interesting. The author has great insite to biblical history and has fictionalized an intriguing web of characters and story lines. It all ties togather very well. A must read for the avid reader. Put down those dull novels and pick up this great story. I wept for Dinah!!
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Summary: Exotic and succulent
Review: Even though this book is a simple, quick read, do not think for a moment that it does not touch or challenge the reader. Often, I found myself hardly waiting for what could possibly happen next, and at other times I found myself rereading a paragraph and saying "How fresh for a story that was from so long ago." The language is not fascinating, but it does have its own cadence, and gives the book a gait that moves the reader forward, as if the reader could need anymore prodding beyond the plot. I am not sure how true to scholarship the meat of the book is, as I am less of a Biblical scholar than most, but I do know that I found it very credible, even in terms of language and slang used. (There are a couple of places where it does slip-toward the end of the novel the narrator claims to have "peed," which didn't strike me as a consistent manner in which to refer to the act as befit the rest of the novel.) The description, literally, is the novel's best feature-I became very thirsty, hungry, etc. just from reading of the narrator's various experiences. A good book to curl up with a spend a rainy day reading, and better to pick a rainy day to combat the dust of the desert that you will surely taste as you read the book and are swept away by its exotic, succulent voice.
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