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Summary: "Jew are a pendejo bahstair,"...
Review: My father read to me a passage from RED SKY AT MORNING when I was eleven. He was trying to get me interested in reading the book for myself and chose one of the more memorable scenes. I remember reading it and getting partway into the book and giving up. I just found nothing interesting to the story. When I turned eighteen, I recalled the book my father told me about many years prior, and picked it up again. What a difference a few years made. I've literally spent a year getting intimate with this novel. Memorizing every passage, and character development. It's a rare American novel that has very few equal. Many people compare RED SKY AT MORNING with J.D. Salinger's CATCHER IN THE RYE. Both are classic works of literature, and have a very honest look at adolescents, but that's where their similarities end. RED SKY AT MORNING is also a rich look in the life of not just one character, but an entire town as diverse as we are. We grow along-side with those from the small town called Corazon, Sagrado.
Frank Arnold decides to move his family from MOBILE, ALABAMA to a small town in New Mexico where Joshua (our Narrator) spends his Senior year of High School.
RED SKY AT MORNING can be seen as a coming of age story; but it's very much a coming of understanding story as well. The Arnolds came from a mostly White upper class background, where they were the Majority, but by moving to this small town, they are turned into the Minority overnight. Old habits die hard for some, but through exposure others come to accept those who are different. This is a story that will make you laugh for days. It will make you cry the first time you read it, and the 9th time you read it. It's as bitter-sweet as life itself. I will never come across a book that has touched me as deeply as RED SKY AT MORNING.
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Summary: "Jew are a pendejo bahstair,"...
Review: My father read to me a passage from RED SKY AT MORNING when I was eleven. He was trying to get me interested in reading the book for myself and chose one of the more memorable scenes. I remember reading it and getting partway into the book and giving up. I just found nothing interesting to the story. When I turned eighteen, I recalled the book my father told me about many years prior, and picked it up again. What a difference a few years made. I've literally spent a year getting intimate with this novel. Memorizing every passage, and character development. It's a rare American novel that has very few equal. Many people compare RED SKY AT MORNING with J.D. Salinger's CATCHER IN THE RYE. Both are classic works of literature, and have a very honest look at adolescents, but that's where their similarities end. RED SKY AT MORNING is also a rich look in the life of not just one character, but an entire town as diverse as we are. We grow along-side with those from the small town called Corazon, Sagrado. Frank Arnold decides to move his family from MOBILE, ALABAMA to a small town in New Mexico where Joshua (our Narrator) spends his Senior year of High School. RED SKY AT MORNING can be seen as a coming of age story; but it's very much a coming of understanding story as well. The Arnolds came from a mostly White upper class background, where they were the Majority, but by moving to this small town, they are turned into the Minority overnight. Old habits die hard for some, but through exposure others come to accept those who are different. This is a story that will make you laugh for days. It will make you cry the first time you read it, and the 9th time you read it. It's as bitter-sweet as life itself. I will never come across a book that has touched me as deeply as RED SKY AT MORNING.
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Summary: Great book, overpriced hardbound
Review: A wonderful book, every bit as good today as when I first read it twenty - some years ago. Beware of this "hardbound" edition, though; it's just a cheap reprint on pulp paper. Quality is lower than the paper used in the paperback and costs 3X more! Boo on Amazon for not warning the reader, but perhaps that's why there will (I hope) always be a place for real live bookstores where you can touch and feel as well as buy. Anyway, read the book, just read the paperback and save your money
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Summary: Red Sky At Morning
Review: After reading this book I was struck by the way the author creates an image of the life of an adolescent. The book reveals the life of a teenage boy named Josh whose dad is in the Navy during WWII. He and his mother go to live at the family's summer home in Sagrado, New Mexico. Josh is faced with going to a new school and not knowing anyone in town. Josh makes many friends and faces many problems through out the book. The book is full of humor. The book is forceful and every few pages an event happened that made me want to read on. This is the sort of book you can enjoy and be interested in all the way through.
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Summary: The turmoil of youth and war in the tops of the mountains
Review: Bradford's RED SKY AT MORNING is unpretentious in it's aims, subtly bringing us to the world of a teenage boy trying to sort out himself and the changing world around him. Rather than the CATHCHER IN THE RYE it has been compared to, this book captures the beauty of healthy friendships with even the most unlikely--foul mouthed preacher's daughter Marcia, Romeo the sculptor, and even the local ruffian turned friend. Young Mr. Arnold's life in the mountains reflects his growth and learning, and serves as a viable backdrop to the tragedy that haunts him. I love this book and read it over and over, always touched by the sincerity and beauty of it.
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Summary: Gorgeously Funny and Wonderfully Observant
Review: Everyone has totemic books, books that mean something to them beyond the words on a page. It's a wonderful thing when a book that is special and meaningful is also funny and terrifically written. Yes, it's a coming-of-age story, set in 1942 in the southwest; it's also shrewd and miraculously observant about people and their behavior, about what happens when cultures bump up against each other. I discovered this book when I was fifteen (a new transplant from a city to a small rural town) and immediately fell in love with it. I've given copies to people over the years, and phrases from the book have worked their way into constant use. It also has the best dead horse scene in literature, a U.S. Army VD training film which is not to be missed, and a scene with an irate father of twins that will blow your socks (and regions nearby) off. I can't see anyone old enough to appreciate it not loving RED SKY.
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Summary: A little taste of home
Review: Growing up in the "real" Corazón Sagrado, this book makes me laugh and cry everytime I read it. Based on a small Northern New Mexico town, Richard Bradford captures the essence of coming of age in this area. I don't think there is any book that better describes the precarious balance between neighbors, friends, and those that come from the "outside" to share life in the small towns of Northern New Mexico. From the Cloyd sisters to Chango, I think everyone has known this book in some form or another. My only regret in reading this book? It doesn't go on forever... (If you have a chance, you may also want to try and get a hold of "So Far From Heaven," which is out of print, but more than worth the search)
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Summary: You wanna know about my home? Here it is
Review: Having grown up in a slightly more modern New Mexico, I not only loved Red Sky, I understood the entire depth of the novel without having to rush to my Spanish/English dictionary to look up every other word. Red Sky was my coming of age novel. Couldn't relate to Holden and Scout was my best friend when I was 8--it was Red Sky that caught my attention when I was 16 and made me start thinking about the world. Read it.
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Summary: How Red Sky at Moring IS NOT Catcher In The Rye
Review: HOW RED SKY AT MORING IS NOT THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, AND HOW TO READ THIS BOOK IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ IT FOR A CLASS: The back cover of this addition compares Red Sky At Morning to The Catcher In The Rye. But there are few similarities that I can draw between the two books. Two struggling teenage boys, yes, but totally different personalities. Catcher In The Rye - In short, Holden cracked. His brother died and Holden had so many emotional problems that he ended up in a mental hospital. (It's hard to catch but in last chapter Holden makes reference to "psychoanalyst guys." The entire story is not being told to the reader, but to a psychiatrist). Red Sky At Morning - Josh is composed and has control over emotions. He is able to take charge of things and responsibility for other people, such as his mother. He narrates the book in a way that lets the reader understand that he has control. Things are said bluntly and firmly, he doesn't question anything. Josh has control, Holden does not. Being from the Southwest would probably help the reader's interest. There are some parts of the culture that could be new to the reader, (just as they are to from-Alabama-Josh). This isn't a standard required reading assignment for people who don't live in New Mexico just for that reason. But for those of you who don't a) have to read it for a class or b) aren't comparing it to The Catcher In The Rye, it is a funny, touching book, with a little bit of a Southwestern twist. Setting is everything in this story, and it brings an atmosphere that can either captivate or discourage a new reader. My opinion: give it a try, try to read with an open mind, and don't analyze too much.
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Summary: Why don't they release the movie on video?
Review: I agree with the other reviews- I saw the movie first, way back in 1971, and then read the book. Both are excellent and, as usually is the case because of the luxury afforded by the printed page, the book was "better." But I also love the movie; it will always have a special place for me because my time of coming of age was synchronized with the release of the movie. Very moving story, wonderful character development, something that will stay with me forever. Now that the book has been re-released, why don't they release the original 1971 movie on a video? With all the magnetic tape wasted on things that should have never been recorded in the first place, this time put the tape to good use!
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