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Summary: Booooooring. (yawn)
Review: An amazingly boring book. I read half of the book before putting it down. There is absolutly no action whatsoever
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Summary: Jacob Have I Loved-- One of the Best Books for Any Age
Review: Between this book, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and Bridge to Terabithia, I think Katherine Paterson wrote all of the books I was meant to write in my lifetime, but I was born a bit too late. Sometimes I think it's not fair that she got to these ideas first, but then I realize that if she hadn't written them, I never would have had the distinct pleasures of reading them, and then where would I be? Jacob Have I Loved has been one of my favorite books since I first read it nearly sixteen years ago. (Sixteen years! I can hardly believe it!) It gave me a great deal of courage, knowing that "Wheeze" rose above the place where she saw herself and found a life better than any she had imagined. At the age of 27, I still find inspiration, laughter, and a few tears in this book, which has really become more like a cherished friend. God Bless Katherine Paterson.
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Summary: SIBLING RIVALRY CARRIED TO EXTREME
Review: This is a thought-provoking psychological novel about twin girls who are very different--in appearance, temperament and talent. Raised in a dysfunctional family unit, the older girl discovers that the scales of Love are grossly weighted in favor of the younger twin; she grows up feeling rejected by her own family, by society in general and even abondoned by God. Set on a bleak islet in the Chesapeake Bay as World War II approaches, this story of sibling rivalry and family persecution unfolds as three teenagers emerge to face adult stress--complicated by a suffocating mini community. Sarah Louise, "Wheezy," has spent her childhood in the shadow of her beautiful, talented sister, for whom everyone cheerfully makes sacrifices. And excuses. Ignored sincer her very birth, Louise has struggled for recognition and validation of self-worth for 15 years. Life is harsh on Rass Island, where most men support their families as "watermen"; thus we learn much about the crabbing and shellfish business. The storyline progresses in the first person, immediately drawing us into the confused and tormented mindset of the rejected twin. Louise needs inner strength and unique abilities to cope with unjust reality: Caroline's popularity, her grandmother's irrational criticism, her mother's self-abnegation, her father's disappointment that he lacks a son to help him in the family business. As if the problems of her nuclear family were not enough, she also stresses about an unpopular teenage boy, a mysterious captain and a crazed "Auntie" who shelters too many cats. How long will she sit back and allow her sister to steal everything: her name, her friends, her plans to earn money, her self-respect? Then there are her personal fears, as she faces impending womanhood--with the emotional pitfalls of physical maturation and disturbing surges of unbidden feelings, tears and temper. How can she mature into the woman she was meant to be while she exists half hidden in the shadow of Caroline's success? Will she ever escape the island and its unjust social prejudice, to become a person in her own right and be appreciated as a woman of value, capable of inspiring love? Is she truly--as the Biblical title implies--despised by God? This is a deep read which will touch a chord in all twins or feuding sisters. High school age and up will feel for Louise, the invisible "other" twin.
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Summary: Truthfuly wonderful
Review: This book has to rank 1# in my book chart.I am only ten but I fell in love with this book right away.I fell srongly that the review titled "Unsuitible for Children",is absurd! I'm positive that if I enjoyed this book, that children of adolesence will love it.The bottem line is read it,and if you already have read it again.
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Summary: Best book I have read in my life!
Review: While Louise's sister, Caroline snatched her life away, Louise gratualy started to build a whole new one. This book had everything any book could posibly need,love,hate,drama. I strongly recoment that if you have not read this book read it ,and if you already have read it again!
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Summary: Incredibly truthful, wonderfully written
Review: I think the most magical aspect of this book is the narrator's situation while telling it - she is no longer the tortured child she tells us of; rather she's a grown adult who has come to terms with her family and herself. The brutal honesty of her feelings is overwhelming. I so related to Sara Louise that I couldn't put the book down. I love how the author chooses to let her readers find the story's purpose on their own. She gives nothing away. This is definitely a story for individual perception and relativity. I believe I can appreciate this story much more as an adult than I would have as a teenager.
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Summary: Great!
Review: During the school year of 1997-98, the sixth graders at St. Paul School, in Westerville,OH were assigned this book to read. I read the book over the weeekend. It was an inspiring story that I could realte, being a twin, and during my chidhood, having my younger twin always want to play tea party, or house in pink dresses, when I wanted to do anything than were a dress. I enjoyed probally the most of my class, because I could greatly relate to the older twin not gettting all the attention, and feeling lonely at some points in her life. Katherine Paterson is an extrodinary author with a variety of books that give diffrent views on life.
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Summary: A boring book to read over the summer.
Review: I didn't like the book. It was boring and in poor detail. The chactors were kind of hard to picture. It was a sad story of twins. One was born sick and was favored by the parents but the other was left out and ignored. It made depressed.
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Summary: This is one on my top ten list!
Review: I found it unbelivable that one reviewer found the book unsuitable for children. I read it for the first time when I was 9 or 10, and fell in love with it then. However, I agree that the book is for an older audience also. "Jacob Have I Loved" deals with issues from sibling rivalry, to self-esteem, and relationships, both family and friends, to the inevitable transformation from a child to adult. I've re-read this story innumerable times, and it still makes me cry as I read of Sara Louise's trials and tribulations. Each time I read the book, I am struck by a new theme. From the mother-daughter relationship, to growing up on the tiny Rass Island, I see the book differently, and love it all the more. However, I must admit, one thing that draws me to this story, is the location on the Cheasapeak Bay, in my home state. This is one book that nobody should grow-up without having read at least once.
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Summary: A shocking ending!
Review: I read this book and think that the author didn't do a great job of detailing. For instance, Hiram Wallace and Joseph were hard to picture as to what they looked like. The main character had a major probelm with self-esteem. Everyone turned on her that was on the island of Rass. It was a very heartfelt story with a shocking ending. I think that there were clues that led up to the end, but I won't tell you anymore about it (except that it was good and would recommend it to someone who loves to read).
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