Christy

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Summary: I love this book
Review: This is the best book that I have ever read. I read this book when I was about twelve and I liked it a lot but I just reread it (I'm 20 now) and I love it. It really deals w/ life and Christianity as it really is w/out being preachy about it either. I've read many books that are fiction that have a strong Christian background but often it was too "preachy" or not realistic and this book succeeds in truly making Christy seem real and someone that I want to know as well as someone who is earnestly seeking to find out what life is all about. I recommend this book to everyone.

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Summary: Katie's review of "Christy"
Review: When I picked up "Christy" I was not sure what to expect out of the book. I had never heard of it before, (it was written a little before my time) but there were some great reviews written on the back cover. The one review that caught my eye and that I believe rings true for this book is the review from the Atlanta Constitution. The review simply says, "A powerfully moving book of great depth." "Christy" is one of the few books that I have read that I have thought about and pondered over for days after I had finished it. Some of the questions and insights that the title character had about religion are the very same questions that I have been pondering over recently. This book has made me question where I am going in my life, and it has given me a glimpse of the person that I hope to be through God. I am so glad that I had the opporitunity to read this book, because it has changed my life. :)

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Summary: Life Lessons From "Christy"
Review: This is THE best book I have ever read. It has so many good life lessons in it and adventure to. If you want to read about a different kind of pioneer this is a great book. If you liked Christy, you might be interested in reading ,Stepping Heavenward, By Mrs. E. Prentiss.

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Summary: The Bridge to Cutter Gap
Review: The novel, The Bridge to Cutter Gap, by Catherine C. Marshalls, is a story about a young woman who wants to teach school in the rough town of Cutter Gap. Her name is Christy Huddleston. Christy suffers trying to hike up to Cutter Gap, but once she gets there she thinks it is a nice town. Christy finds herself actually making friends with these poor people.
The novel's setting is the poor towns of Cutter Gap, but the theme of don't judge people of their looks can be used by poor and rich people. The characters of David Grantland and Christy Huddleston are very important in this story. Mr. Grantland is very stubborn and likes to play around with Christy. He is very serious. Christy is the star of the book. She is a city- girl that doesn't like the town of Cutter Gap because of all the bad things there. She finally gets used to the towns smell and everything in the end. At the end of the novel the kids and Christy start to work together in sometimes.
The author writes very long sentences. The Bridge to Cutter Gap is a very interesting book. It has a lot of action. The vocabulary is not very hard. The author doesn't give a lot of details about the children, but tells a lot about the setting of the book. I think the reader needs to be at least 9-14 because the dialect is very hard to read. I recommend this book to anyone who likes the country. They can probably read the dialect better then anyone else.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I think that this is an excellent book. I saw the movie first and that made me want to read the book. This is an excellent book for people young and old. A lot of the things that she deals with I am sure that many of us have dealt with in one way or the other.

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Summary: A beautiful new edition of Christy
Review: This book tells a story based on Catherine Marshall's mother's experience as a mission school teacher. In this book, a nineteen year old girl comes to the mountains of Tennessee to teach and she grows into a prayerful woman. Her life unfolds with a romantic triangle, her lovely young students and prayer, her faith in G-d always guides her. It is a beautiful, once in a lifetime book, well worth buying and reading.

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Summary: WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE!
Review: City living just doesn't hold the allure that young CHRISTY is looking for in life. Then the opportunity to teach school in a small Appalachian village provides her with more adventure than she bargained for!
She soon develops her own special brand of courage and through many battles (physical and mental) becomes the wonderful friend, mentor and teacher to a delightful cast of characters.
Written as fiction, this is based on a true story.
I am looking forward to the sequel.

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Summary: A book you want to read over and over again!!!!!!
Review: Christy
By Catherine Marshall

Christy, by Catherine Marshall, is about nineteen year old Christy Huddleston, who gives up her life of comfort in Ashville, Tennessee to serve as a teacher in the impoverished community of Cutter Gap, Tennessee in the early nineteen hundreds. In this book, Christy Huddleston learns to love the people of Cutter Gap unconditionally, and to serve others around her. Christy also struggles to sort through the romantic feelings she has toward the doctor and the minister.

After hearing a presentation by Dr. Ferrand, a non-denominational Christian missionary, Christy was challenged to move to Cutter Gap to teach at the mission. After packing her bags, Christy moves to Cutter Gap, Tennessee to find herself surrounded by the superstitious, poverty stricken, and illiterate people of the cove. Christy is determined to improve their way of life.

While struggling to gain respect from the school bullies, and dealing with the unsanitary ways of the people, Christy finds herself looking at her new life in discontent. She is overwhelmed by the duties and responsibilities she encounters. Christy questions if she made the right decision by coming to Cutter Gap. Miss Alice, a Quaker woman who is there to help run the mission, is always filled with advice and encouragement and helps Christy realize that she did not come here seeking a better life for herself, she came to serve others so that they might have a better life and also have a chance to be eternally redeemed. She learns patience by waiting for opportunities to serve, and develops a sense of victory every time she knows she is useful to someone.

Besides gaining a friendship with Miss Alice, Christy also gains friendships with the stubborn minister, David Grantland, and the prideful, Scottish-Irish physician, Dr. Neil McNeil. Christy expands her insight and gains clues to the destitute mountain people through the minister and the doctor. As Christy learns more, and knows more about the two men, she begins feel affection for both of them, and Christy must sort through her feelings to see if she is in love with either of them.

Christy Huddleston's faith is severely tested when Fairlight Spencer, Christy's closest friend, dies of typhoid and pneumonia. Christy can't understand why God can let there be so much pain and suffering in the world. She questions God about how He, the creator of the universe, can let Fairlight die. Christy struggles with her belief in God, but when she seeks Him in the words of the Bible, those words speak straight to her heart. Christy is assured that God is real, and that He works in mysterious ways.

This book also shows how God can use something negative to bring others to Him. Birdseye Taylor, a cold-hearted man who lives in the cove, and several other men, become mixed up in illegal distilling of whiskey. While a typhoid epidemic spreads through Cutter Gap, Birdseye is accused of murdering a man who was also tangled in the bootlegging. Birdseye retreats into hiding. When he finds out that his son, Lundy, is ailing with typhoid, he returns to the cove to see him. Lundy Taylor, dies, but through the tragedy, the Lord uses this situation to change Birdseye's heart and to eventually bring Birdseye to Him.

I recommend this book because it shows, through the eyes of a young teacher, how God can work mysteriously to turn something negative into something positive. It also shows how someone can unconditionally love even the unlovable. I'm convinced that this book will change your outlook on life. I was challenged to be a more unselfish, humble person.

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Summary: Cathrine Marshall made life in Cutter Gap come alive!!
Review: Christy was an excellent story. It was one anyone with the insight of love, romance, and adventure all rolled into one story. It was about a young woman, who was brave enough to leave here rich home and settle in the mountains of Tennessee to become a teacher. A truly wonderful story!!

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Summary: Average..
Review: Christy is an extremely average book. I say this without malice: average, after all, implies that there are a lot of books worse. However, saying that there are many books worse is not exactly a vote of confidence...

The story is a good one. It has been told many times, however: young, innocent girl goes to the frontier to be a schoolteacher, encounters many problems, finds love. I found it rather trite. Its religion is heavy-handed and seems to be the only message in the book; the ending left me with a sour taste in my mouth. The "miraculous" quality was very off-putting, and I had expected that outcoming for a hundred pages or more.

Quite frankly, Christy will not stand the test of time; works like the Great Gatsby, Lolita, 1984, and even some less-appreciated ones such as Farenheit 451 will outlast it. Simply put, it doesn't have the artistry of language, of symbol, and of purpose that most of those do. If you want to read a literary book that deals with disillusionment and the finding of tranquility within one's self, try Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.