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Summary: Poignant and Profound
Review: This is an amazing novel, an even more amazing first novel! The writer has captured the soul of a man reviewing and questioning the value of his life, with all its human aspects. Hopes, dreams, loves, loyalties, fears, weaknesses, regrets, questions and insights are all exposed, digested and ultimately accepted. If this isn't enough, the reader/listener is also given the most intimate and revealing of insights into the intricacies of emotion that war and its aftermath bears upon a soldier. This book belongs on everyone's must read list!
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Summary: This book's got all the Big Ones
Review: Love, war, the ages of man. Boy, no wonder this book is so engrossing. It deals with the biggies. It truly is a book that you are sorry to see you're coming to the end. The author uses the flashback technique so skillfully that you more or less feel you're in there in the protagonist's mind -- you can share his joy, feel his pain.Another novel I read recently which had this same effect on me, of making me feel I was right there in the mind of the main character was Asher Brauner's book "Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf".
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Summary: Tough Guys Cry To-
Review: I bought Losing Julia after the passenger next to me on my flight to Denver, was crying while reading it. After hearing her review I bought the book. During my trip in the mountains, I could not put the book down! Hull somehow intertwined several time periods around this story of a war veteran who is comming to grips with loved lost and old age closing in on him. The book was amazing to me, as one page would have me laughing out loud, then the next minute I was riveted with the detailed descriptions of war and then a moment later Hull would hit me with a wonderful description of how love can affect us all. Hull has such a unique yet universal way of looking at life. For example, there as not one analogy of love I had ever heard before, yet I felt I had agreed with them all. Ironically, my experience with this book ends on my return flight home from my trip. I somehow arrived at the conclusion of the book during the final minutes of my flight, and then I (and I thought I was stronger than this) started crying. All these time periods come to a dramatic conclusion. I stongly recommend you buy this book and I hope it makes it to the big screen.
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Summary: Literary love story
Review: That rarest of books: a truly intelligent love story! But also so much more: a sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious look at old age; a profound -- and I use that word after some consideration -- anti-war novel, with some of the most unforgettable descriptions of war I have ever read; a provocative meditation on life itself. (I finally had to buy my own copy so I could mark it up.) Just two things that don't ring true: the author's apparent youth, judging from the jacket photo, and the fact that this is his first novel. Incredible.
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Summary: Losing Julia- Gotta Read It
Review: I am really disappointed by the number of reviews which compare this book to The Bridges of Madison County. I REALLY didn't like that book and I think that Losing Julia has everything that "Bridges" was missing. First of all, it's a shame to compare the quality of the writing; I think this book is extremely well-written and I thoroughly enjoyed the author's technique of reflection. Secondly, while I realize it's a love story at it's core, I thought Hull's insights about getting older, including self-deprecating humor,dealing with a terminal disease, loneliness, etc. were frightfully realistic. As for the love story, I thought the ending was a little sappy.. and unlikely...but from a cynical New Englander who doesn't like to show her emotions, I was touched. I think the book is great.
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Summary: This book's a treasure!
Review: Are you wondering if this book is for you? Are you a veteran or have a family member who is a veteran-this book is for you. Are you a member of a medical staff,particularly of a nursing care facility-this should be required reading for you. Are you a person who has loved and walked away from that "love of your life"-this book is for you. And are you simply looking for a good book to read-this book is for you! It is a treasure.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I guess you either loved it or hated it. I was sorry I invested by money in this tape. The story consisted of 75% graphic description of World War I. I expected more romance, and less blood and guts! I also did not particularly enjoy the narrators voice, which was dull and lifeless. Also on the tapes, Julia and Daniel never married! He wrote pages of his proposal, but died before he sent them off to her. Like I said, I was disappointed.
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Summary: Tawdry
Review: This one started out okay, despite stilted dialogue and unoriginal, idealized, and bland characters, but then it committed what, in my mind, is the ultimate sin: it reminded me of "The Bridges of Madison County," which was one of the worst books I've ever suffered through. If Jonathan Hull wants to write, he should find something worth writing about first. This wasn't it.
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Summary: A great read!
Review: Patrick Delaney is totally real, not a fictional character. I love the counterpoint of his sad life in a home for the aged contrasted with his vivid memories of horrific war and a haunting love. Some details are perfect, such as when he throws away his cane and rents a moped for an afternoon! Jonathan Hull made Patrick true in every way. His loneliness and longings are what everyone feels. But he is also true to his time and experience (an American soldier in World War I). When Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and America is again at war only 2 decades after HIS war ends, he stares out his window in despair.
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Summary: Longevity of Love
Review: This is a pretty entertaining book. The story is compelling and heartwrenching. I liked it alot. As to the nobility of the main character, if you remove the passion and emotion, you have a guy cheating on his wife -- where's the honor in that? It makes me think of Bridges Over Madison County. Which is worse, to lose love while the passion still burns, or to live out the life of love as the passion fades? Had those two (in Bridges) gotten together, with the trials of life, who's to say that in 10 years she wouldn't do it all over again with another strange guy. I believe in lust at first sight but I believe in giving love at first sight a second look.
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