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Summary: True Love
Review: I wholeheartedly disagree with the reviewer who claims to be "not QUITE as merciless..." Her opinion of what is and what is not true love is simply that, an opinion. I hope readers will disregard her lofty critique and allow themselves the great pleasure of Jon Hull's beautifully realized work. Here's to true love!
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Summary: I'm not QUITE a merciless as a customer from texas, but...
Review: I do have to agree with our texas reader on many points. Hull is definitely a talented writer, and he shows that when he writes about the battle scenes and lasting effect of war on a soldier. He also exhibits his talent when he writes about Patrick's life in the nursing home. But all that talent is negated by the central theme of the book - Patrick's sappy, ridiculous, endless mooning over a sneaky fling with his best friend's widow. I hate to think that any reader would view that affair, and Patrick's inability to build a life of any quality afterwards as 'true love'. (That IS exactly the message that Bridges of Madison County gave to readers several years ago, and that novel was utter dreck.) In all honesty, if Patrick and Julia had built a life together we may have seen love develope and grow between them, but endless pining from afar after a tawdry little affair is NOT true love! Perhaps Hull should have thrown out the silly affair element, and we might have seen an excellent novel about war and aging that he seems capable of writing.
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Summary: Memories Revisited
Review: What a marvelous book! How did this young author ever put himself into the mind of an 80-year old and come through with such pertinent observations about the aging process? Better yet, there is a wonderful love story, and a truly memorable discourse about the horrors of war--particularly World War I. I especially enjoyed the inclusions of poetry selections about the GREAT War...Great War, Indeed!. This is a moving work of fiction, which seems almost too real to be true.
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Summary: wonderfully touching book
Review: For my money, this book was the BEST. Mr. Hull really made me feel what this man felt. It made me really appreciate what the veterans of WWI went through and the sadness of old age. I will be anxiously waiting for Jonathan Hull's next book!
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Summary: A book that cannot be reviewed
Review: I was not going to review this book... Paraphrasing for the difference in artistic context:"IN SHORT: Wow. Flat out wow. Have you ever had one of those reading experiences where your concentration was so fixated on the story that everything else was shut out? That you called all your friends afterwards and told them 'YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!' and when they asked 'Why?,' you had to answer 'I can't tell you.' If not, you are about to. This is not a question of not giving away the story, this is a story that is so well written, with details so intricately woven into the entire piece that some idiot reviewer somewhere will feel compelled to lay out every detail and wreck the experience for you. Not me." On a scale of 5, a 6. Whatever your age, you will never regret having read this book.
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Summary: SAVORING EACH PAGE ......
Review: like a rich dessert; I'm hesistant to hurry through it. I've found myself re-reading Hull's passages until they've absorbed into the deepest layers. Up until now Moran's, The World I Made for Her was my all time favorite, however after reading Losing Julia, that's changed. Many thanks to the author for opening up the most private corner of a man's mind and sharing with us a most unusual & heartfelt story.
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Summary: I'd rate it a O star if you included it on your scale
Review: I can't believe these Reader Reviews rated this sappy-romance/bloody-war/pathetic-aging novel four and a half stars. I found it as ridiculous as "Bridges of Madison County," though I have to admit it was better written. Why do men think a short little torrid sex and then mooning over one's "lost love" the rest of your life is TRUE LOVE? I wanted to say, "C'mon, Patrick, get a life!" And didn't anyone feel sorry for Patrick's wife during that Paris trip, her husband cheating on her with his dead best friend's widow, while she thought he was out grieving his lost buddies on battlefields and monuments? And while noble Julia wouldn't "break up a marriage," she had no qualms about an affair with a married man with a two-year-old son. Of course she didn't know he was stupid enough to moon over his "lost love" the rest of his life. C'mon, Hull, with your obvious writing talent, you can surely do better than this!
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Summary: Losing Julia
Review: Jonathon Hull's humor, insight and poignancy make this book a joy to read. You will laugh and cry, but most of all, you will want to read it again and again.
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Summary: My Heart Has Been Touched
Review: I have not been this moved by a book in years. I was totally entranced from beginning to end. I love the way Jonathan Hull writes. I feel like these characters were real people. I want to go to France and see their names on the monument. I want to walk where they walked. It sounds so silly, but what a tribute to Mr. Hull's abilities. Years ago I tucked "Bridges of Madison County" in my bottom dresser drawer and told my best friend, only half-jokingly, 'I want to be buried with this book.' That book has now been replaced. I loved this book. I feel like Daniel and Patrick trying to find the words to describe the horrors of war. I just can't find the words to do this book justice.
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Summary: Superb listening!
Review: Jonathan Hull's Losing Julia pairs TV actor Ralph Waite's well-known voice (Waltons) with the story of a man who falls in love with his best friend's beautiful wife. War sparks romance in this moving story of many losses.
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