The Good Earth

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Summary: A lengthy, dragging book with some interesting realizations.
Review: I was forced to read this book for school and I found it to be quite a bore. The book seemed to go on forever and never end. I was simply happy when I passed the picture section of my book. Over all I did not enjoy reading this book and wonder how it can be a classic and yet so unenjoyable for many students. It was more a painstaking process to read than anything else. I can not recommend this book to read unless you wish to be very bored.

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Summary: the most brilliant story of all time... it has it all.
Review: there is no way to describe this book... but this is by far pearl's absolute best writing.it pulls you in and just doesn't let you go... you want to know what comes after this... and to the readers delight...there is more!!! you just have to experience it to appreciate it all...

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Summary: Fantastic!!!!!!!
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. Definitely on my top five list. It's so incredible well written and has a great storyline unlike a lot of books these days. It was so sad too. I couldn't put it down. I'd advise it to anyone who can read.

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Summary: Makes you understand the oriental culture and people more.
Review: I read this book a long time ago and it still is vivid in my mind. It had a profound affect on me in that, it gave me a compassion and a better understanding of the oriental people in an intimate way. I saw them as people no different than myself or any other person who has good strong qualities and also flaws.

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Summary: It's like visiting another world.
Review: The perfect companion to "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan.

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Summary: Slow-Starter, but develops into a fascinating masterpiece
Review: Beautiful! Ms. Buck truly speaks of all classes of China. Because of her situation, a white woman who lived in China among Chinese, she has a special viewpoint into Chinese culture. Main character Wang Lung experiences many loops in his life. It is interesting to see why these repetitions take place! This is a great book, but not for someone who lacks patience. Once this book gets going, you will be engrossed!

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Summary: A human story as old as community
Review: What Ms. Buck writes is nothing less than a universal story told in the particular. I read this novel first when I was ten or eleven and loved it so much I've reread at least three times, parts of it more. It is true that, to western eyes, the continual disasters and conflicts may seem overdone, but we live safe, coccooned in a unnatural existence. The people in this novel had no safety but themselves, and their families. That was why the filial piety was such an important tradition -- it required mutual loyalty and obligations between the generations to survive. It was only after reading Ms. Buck's autobiography, "My Several Worlds," that I began to understand a little more why she felt compelled to write of these particular people, this particular portion of China. Someday I hope to visit that great land, and I know all I see will be colored by her visions, shaded by her kindly feeling for these people. Reading this book will open your mind to another time, another way of looking, and that is what great writing, rather than just great style, is about.

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Summary: Wonderful, moving story!
Review: An excellent story with many emotional events. The story fellows a lifetime and is truly wonderful reading material!!

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Summary: Not something I would just pick up and read for fun
Review: I had to read this book for a school project. As I was reading it, it threw many emotions at me. I laughed, cried and got so angery i threw the book down. Overall i think that it was a mediocre book, but definetly not one that I would choose to read, because I just cant stand how the women were treated. Wang Lung struck me as a very disrespectful man towards his wife. But, I think that it does hold some truth, even when compared to society today.

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Summary: Very interesting in the story
Review: I read this book is because the high school's summer reading and I chose this book to be my summer reading book, It's a grade book that I never reading before. Hope you will like.