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Summary: One of My Favorites
Review: I seem to be one of the few people who had read the book before seeing the movie. I enjoyed the book so much I have read it about five times already. The relationships between Gillian and Sally compare to the sister relationship between their two magically inclined aunts. The movie leaves a lot of this sisterly relationship to the imagination where the book gives a broad prospective into the details that make Gillian and Sally so close. I highly recommend this book, but recommend you read the book before seeing the movie.
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Summary: Intresting
Review: I will confess I picked up the book because I liked the movie. While I found that they were very different, I think that its those differences that make both the movie and the book so good.I found this slightly slow to start with but by about page 75 I was having trouble putting it down and finally finished it a 1am in the morning. I am now looking forward to reading another of her novels and hope that I find the same depth of feeling in those.
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Summary: I love Sally and Gillian!
Review: I saw the movie for the first time back in April 1999. I fell in love with the Owens sisters. I just finished the book about 1 week ago and am longing for more Owens.
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Summary: Not to be missed!
Review: I saw the movie before I read the book and I absolutely loved the movie. I decided to try the book. It was one of the most fascinating reading experiences I have ever embarked upon. There are only two other authors who bring me that depth of involvement-- Madeleine L'Engle and Lucy Maud Montgomery. But Hoffman has a narrative style that makes me think that this is a story that one should read aloud or hear from someone. She captures you from beginning to end with the weave of narrative. I read each section of the book without stopping within a section. To have stopped in a section would have taken away from the narrative flow. It is best to look at the book and the movie as two separate stories. They must be told differently because they are different media. The movie medium is sound and pictures, so the narrative cannot be the same as the book, a medium which relies on words. You could not have translated Hoffman's story as it was into a movie. This is why I'm glad that the movie is so much different than the book. Each is a good story on its own and could have only been told the way it was in the medium it was produced in.
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Summary: Whimsical perfection
Review: Never before have I read a book been so beautiful as to bring tears to my eyes for no particular reason. All it takes it the turn of a perfect, poetic phrase and I'm gone, sniffling into an abyss of warm summers replete with Lemon Verbana and heat lightening. I can not recomend this story, a tender fairy tale constructed of true love and old fashioned folklore, enough.
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Summary: One of my favorite books & I'm only 13 yrs. old.
Review: This book was extremely believable. For example, it's supposed to be about magic..but really it's just about one sister's connection with the other. I really loved it.
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Summary: Loved it
Review: Good, good book. The writing was so beautiful and I loved the fact that Ms. Hoffman didn't have to anything dealing with magic to make the plot interesting. It was wonderful the way it was. And the almost absense of dialouge just showed what a maginificent writer Alice Hoffman is. This book will show you your heart. I loved it.
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Summary: ABSOULOULY PERFECT,NEVER BETTER!
Review: This book is something I can definitly relate to. I thought this was the best book I have ever read,not to metion the movie was the best movie I have ever seen,but I think the book was better.I just could not stop reading this book.I have read it three times and I am reading it for a fourth time now.It was the best.Sad.Happy.Enchanting,all at the same time!Alice Hoffman could not have done better!I just can't tell how much I like this book.It has changed my life and the way I look at things.It tells the real meaning of magic and it is soooo true!I think that anyone should buy this book,and I garentee that you will be really satisfied!!!
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Summary: This book deserves 5 stars!
Review: I loved this book! As I love all of Alice Hoffmans books!....but I have to add, watch the movie first, then read the book. The movie was really good, but I think reading the book first would just make the movie look really bad. Sorry if this makes no sense, it too late at night, but i'm sure you get what i'm trying to say! lol
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Summary: Words versus Plots and Characters
Review: If you are a factual person and prefer drama and law movies/books, you will despise this novel. Luckily, I'm not one of them. I admit, there ARE other novels out there by Hoffman that are better (including *Turtle Moon*) that give more rational explanations for the outcomes. However, *Practical Magic* delievers a feeling I've never gotten from a novel before. The way her words weave the characters in and out of trouble; the way her descriptions intice you and give you an aching feeling in your heart; the way mystical things happen to an everday tale when you least expect it. I realize that I am female and that the lead characters are all females so I would relate to them easier than males, but that does not mean that men should not read this novel. Everyone, including males and three-year olds and eighty-one -year olds, have always fantasized and dreamed about the day that they will be riding that white horse off into the sunset, and in this novel, that is as close as you will get. Because it is only . . . magic.
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