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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I am still reading this book and enjoying it immensely. My comment is to others reviewing the book or thinking about reviewing it. Please don't divulge events such as a death of a character. It's rather like hearing someone give away the end of a movie. I have yet to reach a point where a character dies in the Poisonwood Bible but thanks to a few reviews, I already know she does. I can appreciate enthusiasm from reviewers but feel this kind of review borders on spoiling another's reading experience.
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Summary: Should have won the Pulitzer
Review: Ambitious and timely, well-written and fully realized, The Poisonwood Bible deserves to be lauded from every quarter.I disagree totally with all the critisicm against Rachel's malapropisms. Believe it or not, this is the way young people, who are basically bright but too lazy to read, wind up speaking. Extremely shallow and self-absorbed, Rachel takes in the word superficially and verbalizes back in the same way. It is totally realistic and sometimes her malapropisms are more on-the-mark than the original saying. All four females were compelling characters and the scope of the novel was just awe-inspiring. I'm giving my teenaged daughter this book to read in order to further teach her the lessons of tolerance, respect and thankfulness. I've enjoyed Ms. Kingsolver's work in the past, but this book has surpassed everything else. I can't wait for her next one.
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Summary: You need to show more holiday spirit
Review: Happy Festivus. Festivus is for the rest of us. But it is not for you people. You don't deserve this holiday.
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Summary: Longer is not necessarily better.
Review: In "The Poisonwood Bible," Kingsolver's use of separate and distinct personae as the tellers of the tale is very effective, particularly Adah's wonderfully slanted inner takes on the realities and her many palindromes. As is always the case with Kingsolver, the mothers, daughters, sis-siblings, and assorted other femmes are wonderfully portrayed as are their interactions; the men are flat, foolish, and primarily incidental. Otherwise, I thought Kingsolver's transitions between her narrative fictional elements and the historical facts she researched and/or gleaned from other sources were a bit forced. It's an interesting time and take, but for me her shorter tales are better. And, as for "feeling" the reality of post-colonial Africa, I think Hemingway's "True at First Light" is vastly superior to this effort by Ms. Kingsolver.
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Summary: Remarkable work
Review: This is a stupendous piece of work by Ms. Kingsolver. The way she has built up the story through the eyes of all the characters is simply great. You'll love to read the same incident narrated by different people in different manners so genuinely. This is so close to what we experience in daily life. The things which we hate in someone is not at all bad if you see from his/her angle. This book is in no way behind my favorite book "Roots" by Alex Haley. Keep it up Ms Kingsolver, we expect a repeatition of such work.
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Summary: Kingsolver's fan
Review: Writing a story through the voices of 5 different women is ingenious. I love Rachel's malpropisms, am deeply touched by the mother's suffering and feel I know all the girls well as I read. Kingsolver knows human development and her history and what is wrong and what is right in the world. I wait for her books to come out,but hope she is having a good life if she isn't consumed with publication
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Summary: Impossible.
Review: There is no way that there is more than 5 people out there that visit this site each day. There must be some prankster out there who keeps clicking on the "no, this review was not helpful' button. Stop doing it or post your own reviews that I can disapprove of.
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Summary: Remarkable work
Review: This is indeed a remarkable piece of work by Ms. Kingsolver. The way she has built the story portraying different characters is simply great. I expect such great works to be repeated again.
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Summary: Gees, Man oh Man
Review: Just when I thought "The Bean Trees" was my favorite book ever, she goes and writes this one! She says it all in the acknowlegements at the beginning..." It took me 30 years to get the wisdom and maturity to write this book "... I believed this fiction to be nonfiction by the end and know these people will be a part of my life forever!
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Summary: Outstanding Modern Literature
Review: Barbara Kingsolver has done it once again, created another outstanding piece of modern literature. Although quite different from her earlier works she has managed to capture an essence of post-colonial Africa with sincerity and accuracy. Her use of characters to reflect the many facets of deep and complex issues is to be applauded. Clearly her most ambitious work to date, we will see this one become not just a good read, but a classic.
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