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Summary: An adventure to perceive in various ways
Review: The book although seemingly simple wove a very deeply and distinct variety of interpretations. Was Thomas dreaming of how life would have been had Linda lived OR did he always need her near him when he felt desperate and lonely in his life OR was it Linda's interpretation of how their journeys through life would have been as her life flashed before her in the last seconds of life. I think Anita leaves this decision to the reader. Never clearly drawing a conclusion any of these themes could be a viable one.....
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Summary: Disappointing!
Review: I was extremely disappointed in this book. I thought it odd that the book was written out of sequence and stopped reading it several times. I finally finished it. After reading the ending, all I could think about was the time that I had wasted reading the book when I could have been reading something worthwhile.
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Summary: Shreve got tired of this book too!
Review: What a disappointment! It was like Shreve became tired of her own story and just gave up. The Pilot's Wife was great! The Last Time They Met isn't even in the same league. After finally being drawn into the story, I felt completely cheated by the ending! I've never felt compelled to write one of these reviews, by doing so this time, I hope I can save someone from wasting their time and money on this book!
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Summary: Hated this book
Review: As soon as I read the last page of this book....I was angry. I LOVED Pilots wife, so I decided to buy this book. I found it slow moving...the only time the book finally picked up for me was when I got to where Thomas and Linda met. Then it started moving along. The end of the book was for me a disappointment. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. If I hadn't turned down the corners of some of the pages....I would try to return this and get my money back. I will NEVER read one of her books again.
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Summary: Confused
Review: I must be dense, because I didn't understand the ending of this book. I have read almost all of Anita Shreve's novels and this one left me puzzled. Guess I have to re-read it. Was Linda all a figment of Thomas' imagination through the years? That's all I can figure, since she dies at the "end of the book". Would appreciate someone explaining this one.
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Summary: PageTurner/Tear Jerker!
Review: What a book! It was fabulous, Anita Shreve's best work. The whole story just caught me up, and the ending was so sad, I really did cry, hard! I was reading it on the bus and I had to go back to the ending to reread, and then cry some more. My friend started reading it a few days later, and when she got to the end, I could share with her what she thought too, but she didn't understand the (surprise) ending, so I explained it to her, and she liked it better that way. What a great book!
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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: This is the first Shreve book I've read and I'm an instant fan! Now it's a matter of reading the rest of her books. The Last Time They Met is so beautifully written and so well structured. Then, of course, the story line is so captivating. Shreve is a master at telling a story from the point of view of more than one character without losing touch with the plot. And, yes, we all have our opinions about the ending, but that's the magic of it. Shreve is clever; she leaves you pondering her characters and their stories long after you've read the novel. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Shreve does not disappoint....
Review: The Last Time They Met is a beautiful thriller of a book, one which teases, confounds, makes you think, and tugs at your heartstrings. One you can't put down .. it will make you look up, blinking, like an animal emerging from a cave at mid-day, in your dim room, and make you think someone **Must** have set your bed-side clock at Least two hours forward! It's That good!! Shreve has a wonderful knack for detail and description and character. Thomas and Linda become so real to you, you swear they must exist, somewhere, on this Earth. Or that they should have. You will be enticed, seduced, left breathless, and you will be left with tears in your eyes. Whatever you do, Don't skip ahead! The suspense is so measured, so finely tuned, it would ruin the book to guess too much. The ending leaves you to think, and ponder, and meditate on how fiction can bring 'people' ("characters") and a world to life so Well, it is almost heartbreaking. Shreve is in my top ten favorite writers these days, and it's mainly due to this book. A plus too for Shreve's fantastic depictions of Age, (Youth, Mid-20's, Middle Age were all depicted so realistically, you would swear her memory as a writer/person living those moments was Photographic)... and Place.. Thomas and Linda's times together in New England, Africa, and the nameless grey Northern city of the writer's conference are all so vivid, you swear you can feel the rain fall on your head, the feel of dust and hunger under the African sun, the smell of new vinyl and sweat in a young boy's car... it's all so Real... Shreve's gift of weaving deep truths about us all into her stories is nothing short of remarkable... she creates in these characters a Love so true, so complete, that nothing can stand in its way... it will continue on, on its own momentum, forever...
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Summary: Great book!!
Review: Wow, there are some harsh reviews in here... I found this book to be well-written and enrapturing - one of the few novels of this time that actually held my attention. I read it in a few days and promptly recommended it to a friend.
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Summary: Read this book in 4 days
Review: Don't you just love those books you can't put down? I'm so glad I found another one...
Really good read about a lifelong love. Some of the individual lines just made my spine shiver - so close to human truths.
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