The Pilot's Wife : A Novel

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Summary: I wish I had read these reviews before I bought this book!
Review: This book was so bad, that I couldn't wait to finish it. Luckily, it only took 2 days. (It's less than 300 pages, BIG font size.) It's been only a few weeks since I've read this book, but because the characters were so pathetic and unlikeable, I honestly can't recall most of their names. Oprah blew it when she recommended this snoozer!

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Summary: disappointing
Review: I was rather disappointed in The Pilot's Wife. It seemed that the author was trying to grapple with important questions about the nature of intimacy, but did not seem to truly penetrate to the heart of the matter. Although we were told from time to time of the lives of Kathryn and Jack in such a way as to hint at possible reasons for a breakdown in the intimacy of their partnership, I did not feel that the novel really explored the question in a meaningful way. I also found the wife's grief to seem somewhat inauthentic, but confess that one person's experience differs so vastly from another's that I can allow that that might be a purely subjective response.

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Summary: I waited and waited for it to get interesting!
Review: This book had a great premise...but as I read it I thought there is no way it is going to be this simple. It is TOTALLY predictable! The ending is a complete let down. My biggest problem with this book is that I felt no suspense and I just didn't care about the characters.

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Summary: I would pick 0 stars if it were an option!
Review: This book is boring, predictable, and wallows in grief and self pity from beginning to end. I don't like to put a book down once it is started and that is the only reason I struggled to the end of this one. Don't waste your time. By the way Ms. Shreve, where does the statistic come from that allows you to state that "...most pilots die before retirement..."???

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Summary: Good read
Review: The Pilot's Wife is almsot as good as The Triumph and the Glory and Memoirs of a Geisha, the other two books I've read this month. It suffered somewhat from predictability and lacked some depth, but all in all it was worthwhile reading. Anita Shreve has done better though.

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Summary: An easy and enjoyable read with a surprise ending.
Review: This book is fairly well written and an easy read which encourages the reader not to put the book down before finishing. Anita Shreve leads the reader through a variety of emotions such as pity, empathy, and sorrow all the way to surprise and anger. If you let it, the story line can set the stage to encourage an introspection of yourself and human inter-relationships. Enjoyable and thought provoking.

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Summary: An easy and enjoyable read with a surprise ending.
Review: This book is a well written and easy read which encourages the reader not to put the book down before finishing. Leads the reader through a variety of emotions such as pity, empathy, and sorrow all the way to surprise and anger followed by a calming introspection of yourself and human inter-relationships. Enjoyable and thought provoking.

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Summary: The daughter was one of this world's first-class spoiled bra
Review: I couldn't believe that the daughter was so spoiled and thoughtless - is this what children are be oming today?

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Summary: Easy read, stimulates questions on human relationships
Review: Excellent book that delves into the true meaning of human relationships and how well we can ever truly know another. Side stories are also mother-daughter and grandmother-granddaughter relations in the face of catastrophe. I LOVED this book.

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Summary: Wonderfully written but was looking for more of a mystery
Review: I felt that this novel was wonderfully written. The details that were given by the author helped you to really begin to know the characters. However, I was longing for more mystery within the storyline. It seemed that the main character just happened to stumble upon her discovery rather than gradually finding the truth.