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Summary: Still my favorite book!
Review: Lucy Maude Montgomery has been my favorite author since I discovered Anne over a decade ago, when my grandmother gave the series to me, and told me how much they'd meant to her as a child. Since then, I have read as many of the author's books as I could get ahold of, watched the movies, and even joined fan clubs, yet Anne of Green Gables remains my favorite, as I can read it over and over again, without tiring of the brilliant and sassy redhead. This book is great for children who are searching for something deep and exciting, as well as for adults who just want an interesting read.
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Summary: Revisiting my childhood
Review: I read these books when I was in elementary school, and I loved them then. Recently, I was on a trip out of town and went browsing at a used bookstore. I found a boxed set of the first three Anne books and decided to reread these books that I adored. Rereading your favorite childhood books is always a bit risky--sometimes you find that your memory of the books is better than the books themselves, or that you have simply gotten too old to enjoy them anymore. Not so with Anne. The writing is wonderful, the characters are rich and entertaining, and the setting is so beautifully described that it made me long to take a vacation to Prince Edward Island.Anne is easy to love, even (especially) when she misbehaves. I loved revisiting her various escapades: her fits of temper unleashed upon Rachel Lynde and Gilbert Blythe; falling off the ridgepole; jumping on Diana's Aunt Josephine; making Diana drunk; and nearly drowning while playing Lady Elaine. I was also incredibly moved by Anne's interactions with both Matthew and Marilla. I remembered crying as a child when I read about Anne's interactions with Matthew. But I was also surprised about the quiet sweetness and poignancy of Anne's scenes with Marilla. Reading this book as an adult made me more aware of the fact that Anne saved Marilla and Matthew as much as they saved her. Mark Twain remarked that he had never met a more delightful childhood hero or heroine than Anne in literature. What high praise for L.M. Montgomery! I have read a great deal of literature with childhood heros and heroines, and I may agree with Mr. Twain's assessment. Anne deserves a place in literature along with Huck Finn and Scout Finch.
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Summary: Not just for kids!
Review: This was my favorite book when I was young. I related very much to Anne's trials and tribulations. Avonlea and the people who inhabited the town came alive for me with the turn of every page. The characters were vivid and the places were described memorably. Recently, I found this book on sale at a bookstore and I couldn't help buying it. I thought I'd revisit my favorite childhood book and see if anything has changed. It certainly has, but it has made it for the better. I finally related to the adults of the book and I found them to be fascinating characters as well, previously overlooked when I was a child. The children of Avonlea were still as interesting as ever and their imagination as wild as ever, none rivaling Anne's of course. It was a wonderful stress reliever to be transported to a simpler time and wholesome place. It's a great book for children, but with enough complexity in the characters and town events to keep an adult interested. If you've never read Anne of Green Gables as a kid, you might not relate to what I'm saying, but I'd recommend this book to anyone who was a fan when they were young.
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Summary: WHO DOESN'T LOVE ANNE??
Review: Ooh, this was a WONDERFUL book!! There can't be many books better than this one!. What I love, is how real all the characters are, and the magic in Anne's imagination. Some things she says are just like poetry, and some things are hilarious! Anyways, there is a little redheaded, freckled, scrawny orphan girl named Anne Shirely. When the girl (by mistake)ends up in a house with an old bachelor, Mathew, and his old-maid sister, Marilla, she discovers love, comfort, and other wonderful things to feed her imaginative soul. Anne's story (in this book) lasts about four years, in which she meets a whole bunch of friends, including her very best, Diana Barry. She gets in and out of terrible scrapes like intoxicating friends, and dyeing her hair, but she also does good things like saving sick and dying children, and coming to the top of her classes. But, every story has a young man...in this case, the handsome Gilbert Blythe, who Anne doesn't really like in any case. Until later...but anyways, you'll have to read this AMAZING book to find out more!
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Summary: An excellent book, really, excellent!!!
Review: This is the best book of L.M.Montgomery. It is about the life of a orphan girl called Ann Shirley that is send (by mistake), to Marrilla's and Mathew's house.
But they want a boy who could help, not a girl. So, the hart of this skinny red haird girl is sudennly broken. I can't tell you how this happend but, finally, Marilla allow this little girl to stay with them (this is the best day in her life).
For Marilla will be very difficult to teach the girl all she have to know, because Ann's imagination distract her most the time, so she send Ann to the school, there, she will met a lot of girls and boys. But her best friend will be Diana.B, her neighbor.
Ann will found a very closed friend in Mathew.
She has the attitude to make you cry or laugh with her when you are reading the book. I recommended it, is an excellent book.
So, read it, and then tell me if you like it or not!!! (*_*)
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Summary: NICE!
Review: Anne of Green Gables is one of the first books to make me fall in love...with it. I mean, it was cute, it was lesson teaching (hehe, that sounds strange), and Anne was just such a good character. She sort of reminded me of me: bad temper (I've gotten much cooler now, haha), big words, amazing imagination, smart (haha, well, I was and am PRETTY SMART, at least, I think, haha). Gilbert reminded me of this guy at school...haha, well, I won't get into details there, but the book was charming, and I've already read it over four times in only like three years, which is sort of alot. I loved this book, and I believe that many other people will learn to appreciate its cuteness and truth and stuff over the years, hehe. Enjoy!
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Summary: Enduring Classic for the Ages!
Review: Anne of Green Gables is a must read for all girls. It will enrich, fulfill and delight from the beginning to the last page. Its wholesome values inspire and encourage young people as they follow Anne through her daily life adventures and experiences. I have read and listened to many oral student book-reports on this wonderful book...
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Summary: Beautiful Tale of Childhood
Review: Between dying her hair green to scaring herself senseless with her own ghost stories, Anne is the charmingly imaginative orphan who cheerfully and melodramatically won the hearts of Matthew and Marilla. Showing strength where girls aren't supposed to, and being intellligent where girls are supposed to be dumb, Anne is a wonderful role model who gets through life on her imagination and her determination to make her way in the world. And she even gets the guy in the end and realizes her dreams of going to Queens to get her teaching degree. With a charming sense of humor that leaves you laughing one minute and crying the next at Anne's trials, this novel is a must for any young girl and should be a requirement for young readers.
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Summary: Doesn't get any better.
Review: My wife, my sisters, my three daughters, every one of them read this book and fell in love with it. I actually read it myself and enjoyed it, although I think it is more of a classic for girls and young women.
Anne is such a terrific character, so smart, interesting, complex, empathetic, a real peach. The story itself is charming, fun, emotional, heart wrenching, powerful. If you're looking for a gift for a girl from 10 to 15, I don't see how you could buy a more perfect book. The writing sparkles, the pages turn, the story is addictive, it is a wonderful book!
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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: Anne of Green Gables is a wonderful book for children of all ages. I recomend this book to anyone that enjoys reading life stories of one's troubles and challenges. Hope you take my advice and buy this book!
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