White Teeth: A Novel

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Summary: Zadie, you must be a genius...
Review: What a gifted writer, and so young. The diverse nature of the book is amazing. I live in the U.S. but I know all of these people. It took me a month for me to complete this book because it was something to be savored.I didn't want it to end,in fact I'm praying for a sequel. The characters, each where richly explored and I could feel their saddness, passion, anger and frustration with life. Yet, throughout the text was an underlying thread of humor that allows us to laugh at the human condition with all of its flaws. In life there is always a laugh to be had and White Teeth provides many. Zadie, Job well done! Incredible read.

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Summary: Truly Wonderful!
Review: First time author, Zadie Smith's "White Teeth: A Novel" is such a wonderful and refreshing tale. I found her to be very funny and extremely intelligent. Her characters are well rounded and amazingly thought-out. I really enjoyed her intimate scene development. For a first time writer, this is a full and powerful book. I think she's got a real talent and, we should expect wonderful things in the future. "White Teeth" is worth your time and money. Make sure you check it out!

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Summary: It's a GREAT BOOK!!!
Review: To be honest the only people who will not like this book are Fundamental Muslims, Jehovah Witnesses, and unintellectual book club wanna be's. With that said, I will make this brief. Amazing. Calling this story epic is straigh to the heart. It covers so many years, so many characters, and so much heart wrung emotion. I highly agree with all the hype this book has recieved and I think it is a bloody shame that it wasn't nominated for the Booker Prize. Zadie Smith is going to be one of those novelist that will be taken serious (and deserve to be).

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Summary: The Ultimate Praise for White Teeth
Review: Smith is not a writer--she's a quilter, weaving together people and their history, places and their atmosphere, religion and its descrepencies. This quiet debut deserves far more attention than it has been currently receiving. Even though, it can be a bit wordy at times...the end result is astonishing.

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Summary: Believe what you've heard.
Review: How did one so young, get so wise? This is a constant thought while reading White Teeth. This is a phenomenal novel. The character development is superb. No easy task when your characters are as quirky, complex and entertaining as Archie and the gang. Everyone knows these characters but few have ever written about them. Zadie Smith covers so much ground with this novel, she deals with loyalty, religion, war, identity and obsession all in a very different and entertaining story. This book is nothing you expect(except a great read), but everything you want in a novel.

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Summary: an epic of a first book
Review: White Teeth is a story that has something for everyone! It all begins with Archie trying to gas himself in a car and being 'rescued'. From there it touches on marriages, wives, husbands, children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, friends and the relationships they all have with each other.

It's funny, touching, ambitious and really worth a read. Congratluations Zadie on such a spectacular first novel.

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Summary: Overrated but a great idea
Review: This book was a disappointment perhaps because it received such great reviews; had I discovered it by accident I would probably have enjoyed it more. The mix of characters are interesting but it took a great many pages to get the plot together and I was still waiting when I turned the last page. If the author had focused less on the writing of a good book and more on the telling of a good story it might have made all the difference.

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Summary: Great first one
Review: I enjoyed the story lines in the book of all the characthers. I throught it was sad when samad sneaked and sent one of his twin son's away, without their mother knowing about it. Samad and Alsana had an unsually marriage. The author did a great job bringing all the characthers to life.

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Summary: white teeth; it aint jaws
Review: white teeth was an excellent book, on par with the rest the author has written. however, i was disappointed with the lack of shark references made. i felt as though a book with such an obvious title ought to have at least one paragraph (if not many more) dedicated to a character being eaten alive by a shark. other than this, it was one of the best books i ever read.

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Summary: TOOTHLESS
Review: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GAVE THIS BOOK SUCH A GOOD REVIEW! OUT OF 12 PEOPLE IN OUR BOOK CLUB, ONLY 1 READ THE ENTIRE BOOK, AND SHE FORCED HERSELF TO DO SO. THIS PERSON TEACHES A BOOK CLASS FOR SENIOR CIIIZENS. WE ARE A VERY DIVERS GROUP WITH PROFESSIONALS VERYING IN AGE FROM 85 TO 24. THERE ARE AT LEAST 50% OF OUR GROUP THAT WOULD READ AN ENTIRE BOOK EVEN IF THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT, BUT THIS BOOK WAS NOT WORTH THE TIME OR THE MONEY.