The Pilot's Wife : A Novel

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Summary: Possibly the best book i have ever read..
Review: I thought this novel was absolutely amazing and realistic. A great read and I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: Lightweight
Review: I ordered The Triumph and the Glory and The Pilot's Wife to find out for myself what all of the fuss was about. The Triumph and the Glory was terrific, a truly stunning novel. The Pilot's Wife was very mediocre, a lightweight effort, I can't believe Anita Shreve wrote it, she is usually brilliant. Boring plot, wooden characters, a trip to nowhere with no particular enjoyment on the way there.

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Summary: Easy reading but holds your attention well!
Review: Although the basic story-line is figured out before you get to it, the book is well-written and holds your attention. It made me glad my husband was not an airline pilot, and made me wonder about some of my friends who are married to pilots.

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Summary: Don't bother - you've probably already figured it out.
Review: The plot of this book was EXACTLY what I thought it would be. The author surprised me once, near the end, and by then I didn't care - I just wanted the book to be over. This is just as predictable as the cheesy tv movie it will probably become. Save your money.

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Summary: The best read in quite a while
Review: I loved this book! It is not often a novel can sustain my attention, but this one kept me guessing and enchanted. By the way Helen....how many books have you written dear?? Try not to take things so seriously. This was a wonderful piece of "creative writing". Exactly what a fictional novel should be.

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Summary: An unfulfilling novel
Review: This book is quite remarkable in many ways. It is a real page-turner and like many a reviewer, I read it in a single sitting. Yet it is also a rather vacuous book with a contrived and rather silly conclusion. This is truly the stuff that throwaway literature is made of!

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Summary: A good read, but not great by any means.
Review: I personally didn't think the characters or plot were developed far enough and I didn't like the way the book ended at all. I think Haynsworth's "Amelia Earhart's Daughters" and Van Keil's "Those Wonderful Women and Their Flying Machines," are much much better. My favorite action thriller involving high tech aerospace and conspiracy is "Alien Rapture" by Steiger.

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Summary: Exciting book with a truthful side of marital unfaithfulness
Review: I loved this book, and against a lot of people's advice I read it on a plane from Madrid to Miami...take their advice. It makes you question everything that goes on in your flight. You want to go and ask the pilot a million questions about how his life is going and such. About the book though, I sped through it, and when I was about 50 pages to the end, I couldn't believe it was almost done. The thing that I liked most about this book was it showed how unfair a marital affair is to a wife, her family, and anyone else involved. It shows the selfishness that takes place, which I haven't read it quite a long time. It was an excellently written book, and as long as someone is not entrusting their life to a pilot at the time, they should definately read it.

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Summary: Read between the lines
Review: This dark, deeply profound book has a level that few understand.. read it and look for the underlying message. It is a wake up call to us all.

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Summary: fatally flawed, not a light summer read
Review: I delved into this book hoping for the rediscovery of a woman after a tragedy. What I found was someone who was too weak to handle the slightest grief, who wallowed in her own one-sided memories. The fact that it took most of the book to live through this "life-changing" experience was the agony for me, compounded by a whiny, uncontrolable 15 year-old daughter. I expected the story to play out over at least a few months. To my dismay, it did, in only the last chapter. I was not surprised by her, considering the example set by her mother. I did appreciate however, the way she felt insulated, and removed at the same time from even the most benign of daily activities. The detached style that the narrative was written in was fairly acurate. I would not recommend this book to anyone, unless they wanted the heavy, depressing felling that I got after I put this book down.