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Summary: New Age claptrap
Review: A confusing blend of New Age sermonizing and the predictable "womanism". Strictly for those who can't get enough of Walker's "message".
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Summary: Evocative and seductive
Review: A powerful read (as always with Ms Walker). Sensual - was like tripping through silk.
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Summary: Excellent exploration of love, lovemaking and relationships
Review: Alice Walker has again taken us on a journey to examine how our actions can have affect on those we love. If you are up to the challenge to read and comprehend, let Alice take you through a whirlwind of erotic passion and heart mending reconciliation. Alice also very insightfully writes from a MAN's point of view, as the father/angel observes the outcomes of his daughters' lives. Any male reader (as I am), secure with himself and willing to think and learn will enjoy this novel. A wonderful read for a discussion group! Easily my favorite Alice Walker book to date.
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Summary: Not for everyone!
Review: Alice Walker is one of those writers whose work has the power to reach out and touch you when you need it most. This and I believe many of her other works are meant to be read at certain critical points in a specific persons life. Points when it is necessary to come to terms with a particular complex of issues. I thought it was telling when one reviewer said that the pre-occupation by some of the characters in this book with their personal traumas was unrealistic. Trauma is by its very nature pre-occupying. And what becomes lodged in an individual persons psyche as a result of the trauma they have experienced is typically unique to that individual (no one can judge the magnitude of pain in anothers heart). As a person who has been hurt reading the words of Alice Walker not only lets me know that another is serving as a witness to my pain it also shows me that there is joy waiting behind a door that I hadn't even realized existed. And it is in those moments that I feel truly blessed my her writing. Perhaps this and her other works are not perfect, in truth they are not. But in that moment when she has captured the pain in ones heart and soul, given it voice and a means to move forward who cares if it isn't the perfect novel? I guess those who haven't felt the coldness of a heart alone and bereft. For my part I say thank you Alice and keep writing, at least for me!
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Summary: Out of this world . . .
Review: Alice Walker is truly one of the most gifted writers of our time - this story is no exception. Any woman with a father will relate to this book.
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Summary: An interesting mix of mythical with real-life
Review: Alice Walker takes the spiritual world and intertwines it with real life. While the reader may feel the story is about a father's relationship with his daughters, one can't help but get caught up in the relationship between the two sisters. Lesbianism still plays a part in "By the Light..." but there is not the heavy physical abuse of women by men in this book. In fact one could say in some respects it is a refreshing love story.
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Summary: Enchanting
Review: As an Alice Walker fan, I was very pleased with this new novel. Her use of the English language is so poetic, it flows out of the book, and into your soul. I loved how she used her characters to show how events of the past can have an effect on the future. I would have given this book five stars, but I changed my rating for one reason...it was sometimes difficult to follow who was narrating the story from time to time. Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who has never read a novel by Alice Walker.
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Summary: Enchanting
Review: As an Alice Walker fan, I was very pleased with this new novel. Her use of the English language is so poetic, it flows out of the book, and into your soul. I loved how she used her characters to show how events of the past can have an effect on the future. I would have given this book five stars, but I changed my rating for one reason...it was sometimes difficult to follow who was narrating the story from time to time. Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who has never read a novel by Alice Walker.
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Summary: It leaves me smiling
Review: At first I was surprised by the condescending comments about this novel by other reviewers, but then I remembered that any book with lesbian content will be trashed for other reasons by the homophobes that still police the literary world. Ignore them! This book has something original and important to say. Of course we have heard before that sexuality is good, patriarchy is bad, that primitive cultures are wise--but what novel have you read lately that attempts to reconcile the sins of dominant cultures with the pain, suffering and bitterness of marginal ones--that offers redemption to the oppressed and the oppressor, to the wronged and the wrongdoers? In this novel we reach the gentler shores of post-feminism finding the redemption of both sexes through sensuality, remorse and forgiveness. Seldom are men and women offered the same road to salvation on the same terms in the same novel. This novel has a healing quality. Read it.
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Summary: Incredible Story!
Review: breathtaking, a must rea
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