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Summary: OK, this lady has some nerve
Review: Even if Nan was exeriencing a mid-life crisis there is no excuse for her behavior. I found it sad that there were so many 5-star reviews of this novel. I just thought Nan had a lot of nerve to just leave her husband on a whim with no consideration at all for his feelings. Then she just decides to go home, assuming that he'll just be so thankful to have her back. And, to add insult to injury, she instructs her husband to build her a beach house too. Huh? Pretty darn presumptuous of her, I would say. How does she know that Martin isn't having similar reservations about their life together? She assumes he misses her and is pining for her. Since she appears to be such a miserable, self-centered fool, one only hopes that Martin is thinking, 'Thank GOD the b---- is FINALLY out of my life' and that Nan is in for a rude awakening when she gets home! Again, the fact that anyone could identify with this rude, selfish, immature character is just sad.I have read a lot of E. Berg's novels, and generally find them enjoyable, so I stuck it out with this one. But more of a justifiable foundation for her character's behavior needed to be established in order for this novel to work (at least for me). Read "Durable Goods" or "Joy School" - much better efforts by the talented E. Berg. The irony is that the 13-year-old protagonist of these novels has much more depth and maturity than Nan could ever hope to have! Cheers!
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Summary: Berg's Absolute Best!
Review: I give "Pull of the Moon" 5 stars, not because it has the content of a pulitzer, but because Berg's insight and observation of the human animal(WOMAN) is so acutely presise that my insides jumped, laughed and cryed all at the same time. Nan, a 50 year old woman runs away from home (haven't we all wanted to do that!?) Now, tell the truth! In leaving she finds herself, who she once was...a 60s chick, a love child. I was lost but now I'm found. "I once was a wild, beating thing," She says. Men looked at me wondering if they could get me. Now they see me as a number. An old gal pushing a grocery cart. It scares the hell out of me, this new thing. Me" Nan writes to Martin, her husband, from Minneapolis, Arizona, hotel rooms, the woods, wherever. "Dear Martin, This is something I had to do. I need to be alone to sort things out. Sort me out." Nan smells the roses, literally. She takes the time to talk to people sitting on porches, a misfit in a cafe. She sleeps in the woods. One of her greatest fears. "I don't know why. I had to do this." She says. "It goes beyond fear. I am fed up with being afraid." I feel that every women in the universe (at one point in their lives) want to leave, run, exist again, be counted, go back in time. "I walked into a supermarket, Martin, and I had not idea what I liked. Can you believe that? I honestly didn't know. I even lost that." "Pull of the Moon" is Berg's Shining Star. It is her gift to us. She writes what women want to say or do or be. She says it for all of us. And for a moment...we are the characters she creates. Note...I listened to this book on tape. I recommend this highly as you will feel the words with more depth. The reader, Barbara Carruso is superb.
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Summary: Simply Dreadful
Review: Just about every female author of a certain age (it's ok to say that--I'm a female reader of a certain age) have felt compelled to write the "oh my goodness I've been a trapped wife all my life" tale of self-pity and woe. This has been going on since the Seventies. Some of the books, like Anne Tyler's "Ladder of Years," are better than others. "The Pull of the Moon" belongs at the very bottom of the heap. Nan is 50. She's having a mid-life crisis. So she runs away to "find herself" (ACK!), which means taking her very healthy credit cards and leaving her cushy suburban life. Along the way, as she "discovers life" on the road, she narrates her self-discoveries to her husband, Martin, in a series of increasingly cloying letters. About halfway through the book, the mere words "Dear Martin" had me in a frenzy of anticipated boredom. My sympathies were with Martin through and through. So, you are wondering, what's so terrible? Maybe it's a cliched plot, but so what? Well Nan's little "adventures" are so unbelievable as to be beyond laughable. She storms into a strange beauty parlor and demands to have her long, beautiful hair stripped of color back to its original grey. She strikes up truly bizarre (in my opinion) conversations with every weirdo she can find. She knocks on strangers' doors and gets invited in to tea (yeah, right). She meets a young man who has lost his young wife, and, although they are complete strangers, he sobs in her arms and asks to brush her hair (I won't even mention what happens in between). She takes her sleeping bag into the woods, strips naked, and then decides to lie spread-eagled in the dirt to "experience the earth." Luckily for Nan, the stalkers, rapists and other nice people of the evening weren't interested that night. Along the way, rarely, there are some pithy comments about motherhood, wifehood, and growing older. But they were buried in this ridiculous plot. By the end, I was talking back to the book. Nan, we knew ye all too well. Yuck!
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Summary: Any Women Can Relate.....
Review: If your a women you know how Nan is feeling,she complains and talks about everything you would love to express to your spouse or significate(sp) other.MAKE SURE you read her husband(Martins) letter back to Nan in Elizabeth Bergs short stories Ordinary Life.Good Book! Both of them.
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Summary: Thirty Years Too Late
Review: This forgettable modern tale of a woman who wanders away from home looking for "she doesn't know what" and ending with her rather laughable attempt to bond with the earth by lying on it, uncomfortably, overnight, would have seemed more relevant and maybe even more believable, 30 years ago. The heroine is much too gentle and satisfied a character to be seeking her "enlightenment."
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Summary: Easy read, whiny, yet inspirational?
Review: I was ready for a fast reading book and this definitely fit the bill. I don't regret reading it, I enjoyed it but can't rate it too highly. As others have said, the main character in this book, Nan, is a bit whiny but it was in sort of a regretful way. I enjoyed some of her insights that I felt epitomize half the regrets women verbalize while I sit quietly, wanting to wring their necks. It bothers me when people whine about their husbands holding them back and not being "supportive". So if that is the type of person you are, this book serves as an inspirational writing. Start doing the things you have always wanted to do or stop whining about it. If you like driving the back roads, then do it now and then so you don't get to a crisis stage in your life. So, this book is primarily about a woman who breaks down in order to take more charge in her life. Let it inspire you!
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Summary: I love E. Berg!
Review: I love her books! They are so enthralling. You are just pulled in...even if you just read the synopsis. This was a great story, I felt like I actually learned something from it.
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Summary: Revealing and Emotionally Honest
Review: A friend recommended I read a book by Elizabeth Berg although she warned me her work is primarily targeted at women. I picked this book out of the pack and I really enjoyed it. Liz Berg's writing seems so effortless; it doesn't feel like your working at reading. Time just evaporates.
In the book I found the letters that Nan wrote to her husband to be revealing and emotionally honest. Most husbands who read this book will wonder, like I did, whether their wives are thinking the same things that Nan did. Even though it's a quick easy read, it really makes you think about aging, what's really important, and who we really are inside. I recommend it!
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Summary: Thought-provoking!!!!!
Review: If you are an Eliz. Berg fan, you MUST read this..If you are a 1st time reader of E. Berg, you MUST read this!!! You'll be hooked for all of her books!! She writes what most women feel about life..love, growing older,changes, husbands,freedom, peace and tranquility..
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Summary: For any woman who has longed for the unknown...
Review: A great little gem, easy and fast read. I love everything by Elizabeth Berg, and you will too, she has an incredible way of letting you into the head of her characters.. you will find yourself saying, "Oh my God, I DO that!" or "Man do I recognize that reaction!" A remarkable writer...
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