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Summary: WOW!
Review: I was real sorry to find out that this fantastic book is nolonger available. When I read it about 4 years ago, I borrowed itfrom a Public Library and I could not put this book down! It totally enraptured me. It was as if the book beckoned me to continue reading. I finished it in one day and for many years after, have dreamt about it and have been so desparately searching for it, so that my sons could read it and enjoy it as much as I did. My biggest regret is returning Under Plum Lake to the Library. I simply can't understand why this book isn't a classic! I won't rest until I find it again, this time I'll make it a part of our permanent home library to pass down, as the treasure it is!
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Summary: Wonderful dreamlike magical story
Review: It's a story that somehow captured my imagination so fully that it left me in a state of wonder.. I was very young when I last read Under Plum Lake, but I can't seem to forget the impact it had on me, so long ago. I too hope to someday share this book with my children, for few books manage to paint a more magical picture so vividly in the mind. When I think about it I feel deep nostalgia, and I'll keep looking until I find a copy for my own.
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Summary: I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
Review: Like everyone else here --- I picked this book up when I was 10 or 11, and totally and completely fell in love with it! Although I was a total girly girl (I was reading Anne of Green Gables and Daddy-long-legs at the time) --- this book still captivated me. I read and re-read that book until it was in tatters. Finally, when I was 14 or 15, I donated during a book drive. Ever since then, I've regretted it! I'm glad to see that there are still some copies around in the "used" section --- I'm so placing my order today!!!
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Summary: One of the most haunting and memorable books I've read
Review: Like many others, this book haunts me long after I put it down over ten years ago. I've not seen it since but long kept my eyes peeled for it's distinctive violet cover so that once again I could open it up and relive the strange events within.
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Summary: complete enchantment
Review: One of the previous reviewers expressed a wish that they had never returned the book to the library. I didn't return the book and that is why today, many years later, I have a copy.This is not meant to condone stealing from libraries but hopefully illustrates how powerful and profound this book's effect can be. It is a haunting text, that lingers in your imagination. It is both strange and new, and disturbingly familiar. Read it and discover the far off memories it stirs in you.
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Summary: Updated Review for Under Plum Lake
Review: Please note that after a long search I have now found a copy of this book. A big 'Thank you' to all who contacted me with suggestions for finding a copy.
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Summary: This book should NOT be out-of -print
Review: This bok is truly a classic - no other book from my childhood meant so much to me. It is not just a kiddies book - there is so much in there for adults too: Kids read it as a fantasy, adults as an allegory - I have read it as both. I am lucky enough to have my old (tatty) copy of it and I re-read it at least once a year and dip into it regularly - it is like a meditation.
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Summary: This book should NOT be out-of -print
Review: This book is truly a classic - no other book from my childhood meant so much to me. It is not just a kiddies book - there is so much in there for adults too: Kids read it as a fantasy, adults as an allegory - I have read it as both. I am lucky enough to have my old (tatty) copy of it and I re-read it at least once a year and dip into it regularly - it is like a meditation.
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Summary: The book that got my daughter reading ravidly!
Review: This book was one of my favorites growing up and my brothers absolute favorite! Now 36, I thought of it when I was telling my 10 year old what I read when I was younger. At that time, she wasn't interested in reading a lot. I bought this for my brother and she took it and read it first and hasn't stopped reading for the past year! Now we can talk about other realities and about not taking 'normal' definitions of reality as the only definitions. This book has really opened up her thinking (as it did mine!) She has now read about 15 novels since Under Plum Lake and we can make references to this book and laugh and really share some special moments.
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Summary: Lasting Impressions from Under Plum Lake
Review: This has been my favorite book ever since I first read it almost ten years ago. I've read it at least a dozen times - more than I've read anything else. It is an incredibly imaginative, dream-inspiring story that creates the world of Egon, a fantastic place where people visit Pleasure Dromes to experience the Universe, eat ragusa plums and stardew, drink silver-maroon tigra, and develop their minds much more than does humanity. The earth's ocean floor becomes the sky and people travel on rainbows using magnetism. Davidson creates a world that people can easily identify with, but that is thoroughly unique and different from our world; and while Egon is incredibly fantastic, Davidson makes it believable - as though it really exists - which makes the book more enjoyable, because we feel like we can actually escape into its secret world. *Under Plum Lake* is a book that will remain with me for the rest of my life. *Under Plum Lake* can be enjoyed by children and adults alike, on either a lighthearted level or a deeper philosophical level -- for in addition to exploring a fantastical world (from the view of a young human boy), the book ponders knowledge, life, time, perception and deception, sanity, memory, existence, humanity, and the universe... or, to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series (also really good), *Under Plum Lake* ponders "life, the universe, and everything."
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