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Summary: Disappearing Acts Told The Truth
Review: In response to Sharon D. Coleman from Lakeland, FL. I'm very sorry that Disappearing Acts was so disappointing for you. I wish you could've been at the Seminar held in New Orleans on the 4th of July/Essence Music Festival weekend in 1996 where Terry was a speaker, then you could've voiced your opinion to her face. I personally would've loved to have heard her response to your comments because she is not the one, "if you catch my drift". I have enjoyed every book that she has had published and the last 2 movies as well. Although Waiting to Exhale (the movie) was disappointing to me because there were so many things left out, that the book touched on. Such as Lela who played opposite Leon, her character had parents that she'd visit. Her Father was suffering with Alzheimer's. Savannah had an annoying, married sister and a brother that stayed in and out of jail and Bernie had a Mother who she sometimes took her kids to. Yet I've come to realize that they can't or won't put every detail from the book in the movie. I applaud the fact that Terry has made it in this world, being a single Mother with a son, it's probably easier with a girl (I say this because I'm single with a son). I read Terry's first interview with Ebony when she she started getting her royalities, in fact when the first check came, she was floored and then started to wonder what was she going to do with all that money. Well, I pray for days like that and when there are no more moments of living paycheck to paycheck. I'm very happy that our sisters are supporting her and I hope that if I ever finish my book and have God's grace to get it published, that there are more people out there that think more like me and less like you. This book is very realistic, this is the way things happen in our relationships most of the time, so give it break girlfriend. Terry writes about reality, not junk. This is the way we speak, react, love and hate. Terry if you read these comments, congratulations on your recent marriage and I hope that you and yours are together until death do you part. And when will Acts become a movie as well as Mamma? Thanks for such REAL and GOOD reading.
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Summary: This book makes me mad!
Review: As a self-respecting woman I say don't take that from anyone. McMillan seems to find romance where most people would find disillusionment. The main character is pathetic. I just wanted her to kick the man to the curb and get on with her life. Then the book might have been redeemed.
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Summary: I liked this book.
Review: Disappearing Acts, is a touching journey to what happens when you let someone in your heart. Zora, was looking for order and stability, but she stumbled across Franklin. What do you do when someone rocks your world? Logic and common sense fight a tough fight. When you're in control of your feelings it's so easy to do the proper thing, but when your heart leads look out. McMillan describes emotions like few others can. Franklin was quite a character but he knew it and he was struggling to right himself. This book was real no matter how much it angered you, Zora reacted the way most women in love do. We see what we want to see, and we're nuturers, that's just the way it is. Of all Terry's books,I liked this one best.
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Summary: You Won't Put It Down
Review: I must confess that I am not a huge fiction fan. However, I brought this book with me on an extended vacation to fill some of the lulls. Well, I was bored one evening in a hotel room in Rome. I picked it up to read a few pages. Then I read a few more. I could not put the book down! At three o'clock in the morning I finished the book in a huff. I wanted more!! This is one of the best books I ever read.The protagonist seems like a composite of many man. I recognized so many that I know personally in his character. Very well done, Ms. McMillan.
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Summary: Honest, Intricate, Accurate
Review: I can't put down this book. I keep thinking of my own past relationships and feel Terry McMillan has done an outstanding job descrbing the eternal cha cha dance between the sexes. Life in all its complexities are contained within. Bravo, more please???
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Summary: Amazing love story, could not put it down.
Review: You just can not help but relate to this unique love story. It lead you step by step in this love affair and showed you how easy it was to disappear in a relationship. It was well written and I recommended it to many of my friends.
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Summary: LOVED IT!!!
Review: I, too, have read all of Terri's books and agree that Disappearing Acts is the best by far. It is so well written and so REAL that i think all of us can relate to it in some way or another. Ive read the book several times and have enjoyed it more each time. THIS one should have been a movie!
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Summary: I was almost there.....
Review: After a hard day in the office and in the middle of the financial crisis in Russia I popped in the bookstore selling books in English in Moscow. I was looking for some fiction to kill my time in subway getting to the office and back. I'll be honest - I bought this book because it was on sale....and morover, in two day I had to go back to the store asking for another Terry's book . I think this is the most facinating and realistic love story I've ever heard. Too close to life . I was almost there....What makes it so stunning is that everyone who has once been in love and sacrificed lots of things in the name of love will recognize her/himself in the main caracters.
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Summary: Disappearing Acts was disappointing.
Review: Zora (a teacher!!!) lacks self esteem so she let's her loser boyfriend move in with her, only to find herself being insulted by this moronic neanderthal. Please show me the idiot who needs to read this nonsense. Why couldn't the author have written a book about a teacher who is full of self-esteem; a role model who makes good choices that we can learn from; instead of an idiot who doesn't know her head from a hole in the ground. It makes you hope she didn't pattern this book after an actual subject. I certainly hope it's purely fictional. I read the entire book because I wanted to see where the author would take such a degrading storyline. Do we really need yet another book about a dysfunctional relationship where a woman is a pathetic doormat to a selfish, disrespectful, egomaniacal, imbecile? You can see scenes like this on the evening news - they won't cost much and they won't require much time? Why does the author believe we need another book full of foul language and degrading scenarios? This book was a terrific waste of time - not just for me the reader, but also for the writer. Terry McMillan needs to find a more constructive way to make use her time. I believe she is resourceful and I also believe she cannot write. Unfortunately she has quit her other day job and there are people out there reinforcing this very bad, career decision. I think Terry McMillan needs a new self-image. She needs to visualize herself taking 4 years of literature and creative writing. This book was a colossal waste of time.
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Summary: Terry's Best
Review: I've read all of Terry McMillan's novels and believe this is the best of them all. She tells a story of life and love with such realism that you know that sister-girl has been down a few of the same roads that you have and a few you haven't. I have a large collection of Afro-American fiction and this is in the TOP THREE!
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