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Summary: I always enjoy Sue Miller's Novels
Review: I have to say that I always enjoy Sue Miller's Novels. I always tend to feel close to the main characters. I trust her to give me the details of all the character's lives. Ok Sue if you read this could you please write me at Babz@Aol.com and tell me about Lottie. I am not sure what I was supposed to get from the end. Has Lottie found contentment with her life?I really enjoyed the book but I want to hear it from you. Is Lottie totally ok?Ok now to all you readers I am gonna tell you- my favorite writers are Sue Miller,Anne Tyler and Wally Lamb. hat do you guys think? Write me at Babz@aol.com and let me know what you think. Family pictures was one of my favorites. I am just about to start reading "THE DISTINDUISHED GUEST" AND I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
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Summary: Slow going
Review: I made myself finish this because I had bought it. I bought it because I had previously bought and enjoyed "While I was Gone" but this book just didn't gel. It could have done with a lot of editing out of excess words and adding in of character development. Neither the characters nor action ever seemed to be wholly developed. I also felt that the jumps back in forth in time and the use of the present tense were done awkwardly - they came acoss as a creative writing experiment which really didn't help the story to move.
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Summary: a long book that seems to get longer as you read it
Review: The relationships between the various characters weren't convincing and I failed to connect to the main character, Lottie, at all. The book seemed to ramble on, and didn't catch my interest. There were a few parts where the action picks up, but they were like tiny islands surrounded by a vast ocean of blandness.
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Summary: One of the most boring books I've ever read
Review: This book was so tedious and boring that I found it difficult to believe it was by the same author of "While I Was Gone." I didn't care about any of the characters; all were shallow and one-dimensional. None of them behaved like real people. And nothing happened! I didn't understand why Lottie felt disassociated from her husband, and I didn't understand Elizabeth at all. She was shrill and silly. I understand what the author was trying to say--I think--but it just didn't work. Too dense and wordy--which is fine when an author has something to say--but not when an author writes just for the sake of seeing her own words.
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Summary: Not Miller's Best
Review: While I have liked some of Sue Miller's books ("The Good Mother" and "Inventing the Abbotts"), this one was very unsatisfying to me (as was "While I Was Gone"). I never felt that I knew the characters and because of this, could not understand their motivation. It was as though I was viewing them through a cloudy lens...the characterizatons just never were clear. I tried to feel sympathy or even empathy for Lottie and Cameron, but could never muster any. They just never really engaged me as a reader. Also, parts of their history and background seemed to be missing, as if lost in all of the changes of time that Miller used. I will try "Family Pictures" next.....hope I can get more involved.
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Summary: Not Miller's Best
Review: While I have liked some of Sue Miller's books ("The Good Mother" and "Inventing the Abbotts"), this one was very unsatisfying to me (as was "While I Was Gone"). I never felt that I knew the characters and because of this, could not understand their motivation. It was as though I was viewing them through a cloudy lens...the characterizatons just never were clear. I tried to feel sympathy or even empathy for Lottie and Cameron, but could never muster any. They just never really engaged me as a reader. Also, parts of their history and background seemed to be missing, as if lost in all of the changes of time that Miller used. I will try "Family Pictures" next.....hope I can get more involved.
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