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Summary: The ending...*sigh*
Review: A decent enough read, but I cannot agree more with everyone else here who complained about the ending of the book. What a waste of a good story! It's as if the author tired of writing and ran to the shelf to pull down the closest at-hand ending...and, there you have it! Everything tied up neatly with a bow on top...regardless of the relevance to the story.
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Summary: Sorry Anita but I thought this book was almost unbearable!
Review: Reading over the reviews I am amazed that some people can call this a masterpiece and others a complete flop. I did not like anything at all about this book. There wasn't one character that I liked or cared about what happened to. This combined with the many different things brought up but never really dealt with (for instance Mattie's confesion of having "done it" when she was not quite 14. I get the feeling that would have been a bigger issue with most mothers, husband dead or not. The writing did nothing for me, I thought it was to thought out. I knew I would hate this book after the first sentence, gramatically correct or not it was not a sentence in my head - too flowery.
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Summary: Predictable
Review: I find it hard to understand why literature that is so incredibly simple and dull becomes a best seller. Ms. Shreve's writing is comparable to a high school student's, and her plot is as predictable as a bad Hollywood movie. For the re-print, may I suggest the cover sport a photograph of Fabio dressed as a pilot? And, for added drama, Kathryn should wear Enzo Angiolini mules instead of Easy Spirit flats. Don't waste your reading time.
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Summary: intruging, mysterious, and compelling
Review: I enjoyed this book, my significant other is in training to become a pilot, and i am in my last year of school to become a teacher, but besides that I felt the intensity from the beginning of the book. I think that the author does not go where we would like the story to go, yet she takes us to another state of mind. We probably would not imagine of things turning out the way they did, but that is just the point of reading, isn't it... to escape! This book is definetly one of my top ten, and I am reccomending it to my friends, like a friend reccomended it to me!
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Summary: A huge disappointment
Review: I was expecting to read something wonderful. "The Pilot's Wife" might as well have been written by Danielle Steele. I stuck with the book about 2/3 of the way through and then, through sheer boredom and frustration, I skimmed the rest of the book to find out how the plot developed and ended. Much better than the tedius chore of reading it carefully. Don't bother with this one.
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Summary: If this was a movie, it would have been panned.
Review: This is the first book I have read from Oprah's Book Club. The first half of the book was good - well developed characters, good plot line, etc. Then it fell apart. It seemed like the author had no idea how to bring things to closure. Character development ended and we had just some barely connected scenes. I know how hard it is to keep the effort going once the "denouement" has been reached, but this author didn't appear to even try. I am disappointed that this was a selection of this book club and will be very careful before buying another of Oprah's choices.
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Summary: A Fatally flawed book.
Review: Although I was captured by the spare, fine writing of this novel, I was amazed to discover a flaw toward the end of the book -- a flaw so profound, so glaring, that I fail to understand how either the author or publisher allowed it. It's too bad that such a fine writer allowed this sloppy judgement in deciding to let it pass - for she surely must have been aware of it. A flaw that ultimately ruins the entire story.
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Summary: Not a bad read
Review: To the people who don't understand the ending: despite her revulsion at the fact that Jack was married to someone else, and her understandable sense of betrayal, after Muire is caught and in jail (The Maze in Belfast) for her part in smuggling cash for arms (which was Jack's main activity - NOT the bomb - it is clearly explained that was a set up by other forces to make it appear as an IRA act) , she cannot help but care for the children who are, after all, her daughter's half brother and sister. We got the clue when she went to visit Muire and she interacted with the daughter and also felt like picking up the baby. So, she phoned the number she had ("A" - she obviously knows they are friends of Muire's - she had phoned them earlier - and it doesn't matter who "A" is - just friends) to ask about the welfare of the kids.This is despite her keeping it secret from her own daughter. I found that the most unbelievable part of all. As if! So, the press knows Jack was involved in Irish matters, and had kept secret, or didn't find out about Muire and Jack's relationship - oh yeah, like hell! This is the British tabloid press here! Kathryn came across as gormless. A good story, but for a supposedly intelligent woman, educated, a teacher, to be so dim is a bit unbelievable.
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Summary: Could have been great but so superficial
Review: I am happy Oprah has her book group as it gts people reading. I believe she should upgrade her reading list and her audience would respond accordingly. The Pilot's wife could have bena true character study of huma nature, but instead took a serious issue and made it rather superficial and contrived. You knew what was going to hapen after the first 30 pages. Pick plot OR character development neither was met here. How hard it is it to find sympahty with a "pilot's wife"? Put a little debth to her character and you might have had a beter story. All in all a very unsatisfying page turner.
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Summary: Last line confusing
Review: This is the first book by Anita Shreve that I have read. It's hard to believe that the airlines would handle a difficult situation as a devasting crash the way it was described in the book. I didn't understand the last line "I just wanted to know if the children are all right," she said across the sea. Did I miss something?
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