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Summary: Gripping but confusing
Review: I picked it up because Oprah suggested it. It was fast read and when Kathryn and Muire Boland meet, it's mind blowing ! But after that, the story seemed a bit incomplete and I was totally baffled by the ending ! Was anyone else ?
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Summary: Good
Review: The book was good, but started out slow with too much explaining about nothing. A lot could have been eleminated. I felt that there was not enough mentioned at the end when the pilots wife went on her quest.
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Summary: I really WANTED to like this book...
Review: but I just couldn't. It was just so, so predictable! In addition, the heroine is a driveling idiot. She is a strong woman and a good mother, but when it came to 'the secret', NO ONE is so dense that they couldn't figure it out. The fact is: a woman knows if something is awry in the marriage. She always knows.By the way, my book seemed to be missing the last page. What's up with that? How very disappointing!
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Summary: Engaging mystery
Review: This book held my attention throughout. The mystery is an emotional one, how Kathryn will come to grips with what we already know she will find. The emotional nuances held me, especially the relationship of mother and daughter. A great read.
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Summary: A Breezy Read, But Kind of Disappointing
Review: Did anyone else finish this book and realize that you never really get a sense of "Kathryn" the person? I found the character development shallow; consequently it was hard to get really involved with the story. Also, it got a little predictable toward the end.
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Summary: BORING BORING BORING
Review: Well, in my mind, Oprah failed on this one! The story was slow and less than captivating, the character development was shallow, and the ending pretty dull. From the raves Oprah gave it, I expected a MUCH more interesting, unique novel...this one failed miserably. Let's have a good one next time, Oprah!
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Summary: Smooth Reading, Keeps You Interested!
Review: I loved this story! In 3 short afternoons I devoured this wonderful story. If you know any pilot's families, are in one, or ever wondered what it's like, I highly recomend this book. Anita Shreve delivers the lifestyle of a pilot's family right to your door-step. Also be on the look out for an unexpected twist involving the plane's crash. What happened to make the plane go down? It kept me guessing!
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Summary: dissapointing
Review: I kept waiting for something to happen but nothing materlized. It was very flat and repeptitive. I will not read another Oprah's pick again because this is the second dissapointing book I have read that is on her recommended reading.
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Summary: Easy to read, but very predictable and disappointing.
Review: It was simply a formulation of words, not requiring any creativity. The plot twists were merely spice for a story that anybody in the airline industry could tell. It held my interest to the end, but was stereotypical and extremely disappointing.
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Summary: Shreves Crashes with A Pilots Wife
Review: The pilots wife has a lot of undeveloped potential. I read it expecting an adventurous and stunning tale, but what I found was an outrageous story line diluted with extraneous details and drug over 200 pages before catching. Once the plot did unfold, the circumstances were predictable and made Kathryn, the main character, appear as a naive dreamer who was oblivious to the realities of her husband and daughter.I did enjoy the easy flow of Shreve's writing style. She gave the reader just enough information during the "flashback" chapters to help them understand the plot and give them details about the characters. She incorporated a lot of metaphors, symbolism, and imagery. Some examples of description she used is: Mattir was almost never without her music-in her room, in the car, and plugged into headphones as if they delivered oxygen through the ears. (Pg. 172) The features of the woman impressed themselves upon Kathryn's consciousness, like acid eating away at a photographic plate. (Pg. 172) Over the mantel, behind the woman's head, was a massive gold mirror, reflected Kathryn's imagein the doorway, so that, in essence, Kathryn and Muire Boland stood in the same frame. (pg. 213) The images are so vivid. The reader can imagine oxygen, an element critical for survival, being pumped into her daughters body and acid eating away a photographic plate. The symbolism on the thrid examples is stunning, the thought of the wife and her husbands adulterer standing in the same frame, it was the way they were in Jack's (the husbands) life. I also found her constant reference to the envelope of time in relations to the circumstances interesting. It gives the reader an idea where they are in the plot. The ending of the book confused me, because it seemed so random and incomplete. They possibilities of a continued story line had more potential than the one ending. Yet, I did enjoy the beginning of the book. The possibility that I played out in my head was the only thing that kept me turning pages. Without it I would have wish I was on the plane the went down "just off the coast of Ireland."
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