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Summary: It was a very boring book.
Review: I did not like the book. It was very long and had too many vingettes to read. This book put me to sleep.
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Summary: It's a good book
Review: It's a good story about a young girl who shares her experiences since she was very little. Although I liked reading it, "The House On Mango Street" has very poor vocabulary. I recommend this book to people who don't like to read and who have trouble with difficult words.
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Summary: Read this book if you want to remember your child hood games
Review: Read this book it is a great book .It makes you remember thing that we use to do when we were small. It talks about the live that she had when she lived here in Chicago . You well laugh at the silly things they use to do I liked this book because it brouhgt me memories.
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Summary: "The House..."is a great vignette of a young girl's struggle
Review: THE HOUSE is a great book. It tells of Esperanza's upbringing with sexuality, race realtions, and gender. Reading between the lines is unneccesary, for if you read and acknowledge the words, you'll understand Esperanza's story.
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Summary: Didn't like it
Review: It put me to slee
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Summary: Required Reading at the University of California at Berkeley
Review: Great little novel. Although ITCOMS is a book reading club comprised of African-American women, we decided to read books by authors of color. We enjoyed House... We could identify with the issue of "block busting" when the first family of color moves in the white families begin to flee and incidents in the neighborhood. Yes, it is written from a child's point of view of what is happening around them and to them but is really a sleeper. An example is the vignette about the man with the girlfriend/woman who only visits at night. It took us a minute to realize this was a child's perception of a prostitute. We all thought this book should be read in high school.It really is a good novel.
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Summary: This author needs help, or the publisher does.
Review: Sorry to all you obscure people who think this a wonderful book, but this book is definetely not a good book by my standards. I'm a lazy person so I don't really like to take the time to analyze things and read "between the lines." Take a look at that book. Theres a one page chapter in it entitled "Hairs." Please tell me what the significance is of that. Here's one word to describe this book: WEIRD. Don't read it.
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Summary: Appreciate what is there....
Review: From all those reviews full of praise, I got the feeling that those people saw more than there actually is, like those trying to decipher a Dali painting; it can be appealing (I love Dali, and I enjoyed the childish simplicity in A House on Mango Street), and, naturally, not everything is accidental, but this book should be enjoyed without trying to attach too many theories to its content! Worth reading, especially since it's so short (a positive quality in this case!), but don't take it too seriously.
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Summary: luscious.
Review: one of the most thoughtful novels I have ever read. there are a little happiness and a little saddness. I recommend all the people who have spent feeling nothing in these days. We need this kinds of books to live feel something in the world.
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Summary: Revulsion
Review: The popularity of this book perfectly represents the apex of a society whose only real values are the desire to include minority writers i.e diversity over quality. As a moron before said that in this book you need to read between the lined, it is impossible to read between the lines in this book which is essentialy a novel for the telvision age. A series of vignettes connected by nothing except schools' desire to buy a book by a minority author. In fact this literary window shopping is just another form of racism. Because the publishers of the book are simply adopting any Hispanic writer. This bias demeans the excellent Hispanic writers such as Lorca, Marquez and Cervantes. As an educated person, I deeply object to this broad prejudice against minorities.
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