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Summary: Cliche and predictable in a comforting way...
Review: From a literary point of view, the book was written well. The story, however, seemed cliche and predictable. From the moment scraps of paper are found in a husband's (who travels for a living)jeans, another woman is the only possibility. Further, that Muire has children is almost as predictable -- why shouldn't she, just to thicken the plot?I was underwhelmed by the book, thinking that in the age-old struggle for men and women, marriages, and relationships to be understood, there might actually be a fresh twist. Unfortunately, I don't feel as if I found anything fresh, new, or revealing. Perhaps for some readers, however, that is a comfort. For me, it was a disappointment.
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Summary: read the BEGINNING and the END (middle is boring)
Review: (this is my 1st oprahs pix) i didnt care for kathryn i cant believe she would let strangers take over her house & let them go through jacks office. she didnt even know robert and the others. i cant believe that they were married that long & she had never seen the "pilots apt" or been on his plane. i didnt think the fact the mattie was haveing sex at 13/14 yrs old was appropriate or belonged in the story & the fact that kathryn wasnt even upset that her child was having sex "to get it over with". i was really into the beginning i read it fast but the middle drags on and on; boring. but if you can make it through the middle the end it really good. the last 75 pages or so was worth reading on for. the author wastes to much time with detail of houses and surrouding and not enough time about the children. i want to know what happends with dermont & dierdre. & what about his mom why did the author end it that way?
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Summary: good but not great
Review: I usually love Oprah's books and this one was ok but not great. I was really intriqued with the idea "can you ever really know somebody?" but it didn't deliver much on this topic. It seemed sort of rushed towards the end. The climax was presented 30 pages from the end and after a few pages not dicussed much. I wanted to know more about how Jack lived his double life and got away with it for as long as he did.
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Summary: The worse Oprah Book Club selection to date.
Review: Part I of the Pilot's Wife was a little slow and so I had hoped Part II would pick up the pace, but I was wrong. I had thought about reading this book when it first came out, but was influenced by a bad review so I did not buy it. But when I heard it was an Oprah selection, I decided to give it a try. THE PILOT'S WIFE WAS A WASTE OF MY PRECIOUS TIME and MONEY.
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Summary: An easy read! I enjoyed it!
Review: I have to say, I truly enjoyed this book. I am not heavily into reading but once I started this book, I couldn't put it down and I finished it in 4 days! Totally unlike me! I will continue to read Anita Shreve now that I like her style!
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Summary: Compelling to the very end.
Review: I enjoyed reading this book to the last page. Page after page it somehow made me feel like I was there living every scene. Kathryn's thoughts about her life with and without Jack was intriguing and lonely at the same time. I only hope Ms. Shreve writes a sequel to this book. The ending left me with a somewhat empty feeling.
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Summary: I'm donating my copy to the local library
Review: This book was awful. I purchased it for these reasons: Oprah raved about it, I was curious, and the local library wait-list was too long. The story was so predictable it could have been written as a 2 column piece in a tabloid. Ugh. Oprah's picks are popular because many of us don't require much intellectual stimulation. Never to be duped again, will I rely on a celebrity's word about books.
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Summary: Waste of time!
Review: How did this book get an Oprah recommendation? Superficial, boring, predictable and amaturish - don't waste your time on this one!
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Summary: Interesting but flawed novel concerning identity
Review: Kathryn Lyons is a pilot's wife. Her husband, Jack, is killed in a plane crash. So begins page one of Ms. Shreve's novel who asks the question: How well do we know our significant other? As events unfold, Jack's life seems suspicious to Kathryn who therefore does some major digging and puzzle-solving to compile the entire picture of her husband, Jack. Ms. Shreve's writing is, most of the time, intelligent and nicely structured as she keeps her story moving by giving subtle hints and clues which keeps us turning pages. However, certain scenes and dialogue are filled with cliches which give the appearance of Ms. Shreve becoming lazy in her choices. Still, all in all, this is a nice, easily-read novel giving readers food-for-thought not only in examining our own relationships but in understanding that the effects are ever-lasting even though our lives continue. Again, a nice selection for Oprah Winfrey to make for us readers.
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Summary: Not Quite Sure
Review: I just finished this book. I read it on the recommendation of Oprah and I can't remember what she was going on and on about on the show that day but I kept waiting for something to happen that would make me go "on and on". Nothing did. It was an OK book, much better, I think than "The Reader" which I came to see most people didn't like either. Come on Oprah! How about "My Year of Meats" by Ruth L. Ozeki, which is about the beef industry and would be a chance to dig them a bit in a safe kind of way. It was a great book.
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