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Summary: Tepper at her best
Review: Sheri's done it again. Another well written narrative, compelling characters, and off worldly setting makes this one of her best books. A common theme to her stories, women are being subjucated by society so subtly yet completely that no one questions the customs. Add to that, her other theme of the world as an organism, and she's touched all the bases while creating a fantastic yet believable interplanetary society where one world has shunned technology for itself while promoting life extension. If you haven't read Sheri's books, you have several treats ahead of you including this one!
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Summary: Foreshadowing shoulding be 90% of a book
Review: Tepper has two themes close to her heart.First, that some people (moslty those she doesn't agree with) should just be killed, they can't be reasoned with and punishment is just cruelty. (She's been preaching that, and killing off the religious types she disdains, since The True Game novels). Second, that the universe is filled with wonderful, loving, ecologically balanced aliens with only humans as the disruptive source (ok, she dropped that in Grass, but it is a constant theme otherwise). She writes well, but I long for something more from her.
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Summary: Complex, multi-layered, great read...
Review: Tepper's books are not for the faint of heart. They require some effort to read, they're not mind candy. That being said, once you make the effort, you are well rewarded. In this her latest, Tepper gives us an intricate weaving of ecological concerns, feminism, fantasy, suspense, science fiction, all woven together into a wonderful tale of a young woman who, in finding her power, finds herself. I do think this is one of those books that, if you can, you should try to read all in one sitting. It's somewhat hard to keep all the threads together if you break it up into pieces. But that just speaks to the complexity of the material. I really enjoyed the book, especially as it built towards the climax at the end, and there were parts that literally had my spine tingling and hair rising up on my head (I love it when a book does that) from eager anticipation. All in all a great read.
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Summary: Familiar Tepper themes; a good read
Review: Tepper's themes (opression of women, ecology) are perhaps over-familiar from her other works, but this is a well-written and well-plotted book that holds the interest and is hard to put down.
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Summary: SHERI TEPPER-- ONCE AGAIN-- IS INCREDIBLE.
Review: This is an incredible book. Sheri Tepper is my all-time favorite scifi/fantasy author. I grew up with Marion Zimmer Bradley, Doris Lessing and Ursela LeGuin. Sheri Tepper is the sum total of that experience. I have loved every book she has written. Too bad the rating stops at five stars. It deserves an Eight!
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Summary: Surprises with each page!
Review: This is the first book of Sheri S. Tepper's that I have read. It's filled with mysteries of the unknown. Genevieve lives on the planet of Haven and learning the ways of women in the rank of her society by the Covenants. The Covenants are the laws of how women are to behave and what their public and private appearances should be like. Her mother who is now dead taught her other things that no one else did, things she wasn't suppose to tell anyone else until the right time. When spoken of being wed to a man who Genevieve can't imagine being married to she flees from everything she has known. Partly to help herself and partly to help a friend's daughter whose life is in danger. Her own life is in danger as it is but how is she to know that? Until later when things become clearer but it isn't until much later when she discovers herself and comes to accept it. Things aren't as they seem. Only one person is there for her throughout the whole time even if he isn't literally there for her. Danger lurks while romance sparks, mystery and death are the only way that everyone will go on living ... but not if Genevieve can change that.
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Summary: Classic Tepper
Review: With sincere apologies to the great Isaac Asimov, there has never beena better world builder than Sheri Tepper. And with further apologiesto Ursula LeGuin, no one handles gender issues and emotionalambiguities better than Ms. Tepper. Her prose remains brilliant, theplot is complex, and the character development extensive.Summary:On a world divided into nobility and commoners, where women are slavesand pawns, we find that the royalty has discovered a drug which willgive them extremely long lives. The story progresses as anintelligent, but compliant young woman becomes trapped in the politicsof the creation and distribution of this drug, and ultimately, theplanet's future becomes balanced upon her acceptance of her owndestiny.Only Sheri Tepper, with her confident story telling, couldexplore the nuances of such strong gender roles without lapsing intomodern American feminist diatribe. Her characters do not expostulate,they talk to each other and we are led through their lives and throughtheir thoughts. It takes me forever to read through a Tepper book.Her vocabulary is large, and her sentences are complicated. Ideas arenot thrust onto the page fully developed, rather they evolve withprecision through careful reading and attention to details. However,like viewing a painting, the greatest pleasure is gained through slowand careful attention to the work at hand. As you can tell, I highlyrecommend this book. And if you can find "Grass" or"Raising the Stones", you won't be disappointed.
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