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Summary: An engrossingg read!
Review: I was not disappointed to read this Conway novel, not in the least! As with all of the Conway novels I have read... there is an overabundance of interesting scenes and truly clever dialogue--enough to satiate my inner appetite for tangible, gripping fiction. I fell in love with one character in particular, Jordan Elliot, and sympathized with nearly every other character depicted. This is a story about lost and renewed love, friendship and family. Being given a peek at the personal histories of many of the characters enriched this book. The end neatly wrapped everyone's story together... though the stage scene at the local theater was a little hokey. I liked this book and would recommend Conroy anytime!
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Summary: Can't bear to finish
Review: I'm on page two hundred and this book is going nowhere very slowly. The characters are one-dimensional cliches and the dialogue is laughable. Conroy spends more words implying and contriving tensions than actually developing believable conflicts.
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Summary: Pat Conroy has done it again!
Review: This is vintage Conroy and I loved every minute of it. Big,outragous,unbelievable,eclectic,beautiful. Just like life itself. Books like this make me want to throw my T.V. in the Potomic river. Do yourself a huge favor and read everything Pat Conroy has written-I have.
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Summary: This is my all time favorite book...
Review: Beach Music is one of the greatest stories I've ever heard told. Every sentence is pure perfection, and Pat Conroy's story is both soothing and enchanting. The people who don't enjoy it are hurried, impatient people who cannot bear an 800 page novel. It is a long read, but only because you don't want it to ever end, and when it does you will never find a book that comes close to touching it. After reading it, I wanted everyone I knew to read it so that they too could share in the magic.
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Summary: this book is terrible
Review: I have read all of Conroy's previous work except "The Boo" and this takes the cake. He needed a better editor. How he does run on. What DIDN'T happen in this book? Suicide, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, horrible dysfunctional childhoods, where no one loves their parents... There are so many alternating themes - any ONE of them explored in greater depth and with tighter writing would have made a better story. It was boring. I can't tell you how many pages I skipped over.If you want to read a really great Southern writer, read William Styron, especially "Lie Down in Darkness". I have always thought Conroy ripped off that plot (certainly elements of it) for "Prince of Tides". The deal is that Styron did it first and much better.
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Summary: one of the best books i ever read
Review: pat conroy makes the english language sing. his southern heritage and tales make me long to live in the low country of south carolina
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Summary: I cried....
Review: Pat Conroy's best ever. I felt as if I travelled with all the characters from Rome to South Carolina. Lucy's feistiness made me cry for joy and even wacky moments such as John Hardin's present of a casket to his mother was written beautifully. I could picture the turtles emerging from their eggs which Lucy and Leah so carefully protected and heading out towards the sea...
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Summary: Wonderful... you will laugh and cry!
Review: My husband and I enjoyed listening to the book tape in the car and later at home in our bedroom. It was very powerful...you'll need to keep a box of tissues handy! The language was not appropriate for kids.
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Summary: Absorbing and passionate
Review: Beach Music captures you from the first chapter. Although the story can become very sad and tragic, the characters seem to rise above it all. It was very optimistic in that Leah, Jack's child, will benefit by the experience of all those around her. It is promising that she will be a human being full of love, acceptance, and with a respect for all living things. Beach Music is very inspiring. We should all learn from it.
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Summary: Finally, I got to the last page
Review: OK. A lady at work said I HAD to read Beach Music. So I did. But, altho it had its moments, it was hammy, and it did manipulate my emotions, or at least try to. The bit about getting naked for the wacko brother? Give me a break! And claiming classic rock as Southern "Beach Music" - go blow it out yer ass - most of that music belongs to So Cal!!! Rednecks do Country, plain and simple.And the brothers taking turns dancing with their prodigal niece, choke choke. The ending was touching, I grant you, but getting there was a painful experience. Larry 'Possum' Ronnow.
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