In Memory of Angel Clare

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Summary: Leave it on the bookstore shelf
Review: "In memory of Angel Clare" tries to deal with such vital issues as love, AIDS and the struggle of finding a personal space for living under all sorts of pressures and circumstances. It is unfortunate that the book eventually becomes an emtpy account of uninteresting events that happen to uninteresting and unsympathetic characters. Reading the book becomes very soon a tedious an uncomfortable experience. There is also another feature in this book that conveys an uneasy feeling to the reader, and it is the obsession of the protagonists (and the narrator) with age. It seems that in the narrator's (or the writer's) view, age is a sharp step function, its edge being somewhere around 30. Enough with this, please.

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Summary: Deeply Moving & Haunting
Review: Having loved Mr. Bram's "Father of Frankenstein", I picked this book up and was immediately enchanted. The characters are deep and involving. The emotions are raw. The lingering and potent effect of grief hangs over this novel like the fragrance of a garden of blooming flowers. Mr. Bram is a writer of concise and stirring prose. I recommend this book highly.

Rating:
Summary: Deeply Moving & Haunting
Review: Having loved Mr. Bram's "Father of Frankenstein", I picked this book up and was immediately enchanted. The characters are deep and involving. The emotions are raw. The lingering and potent effect of grief hangs over this novel like the fragrance of a garden of blooming flowers. Mr. Bram is a writer of concise and stirring prose. I recommend this book highly.

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Summary: I couldn't finish this book.
Review: I'm an avid reader and tend to finish all books that I've started, be they mediocre, but this was just too much. It severely lacked continuity and substance