The Joy Luck Club

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Summary: It was a touching story.
Review: It was a wonderful story of 4 mothers and 4 daughters, who struggle to understand each other. I also draws you in to the hardships these people faced.

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Summary: Beautiful novel
Review: This novel caught me from the beginning with its unconventional and vibrant images, its poetic, yet honest language, and its shameless detailing of relationships and society. Though not Chinese, as the daughter of immigrant parents in America, I could easily relate to the experiences of the younger generation characters, and I drew many parallels between my mother and the members of the Joy Luck Club. It has the power to stun me and reduce me to tears. I have never known a truer novel.

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Summary: Awesome! You totally got involved in the book
Review: This book waas a well written piece of modern liturature. Amy Tan is a defined writer. This book truely makes you think about life and how lucky we truely are to be living in a world that allows us to have so much freedom.

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Summary: Sweet, touching, genuine
Review: An intimate portrait of several women and their complex relationships with their mothers. I loved it. It brought to mind both my mother and my daughter and how we all relate; how different are the experiences through which we see. So real and thoughtful, it felt like prying into these lives. Worth reading again and again.

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Summary: Great book on relationships of any nationality!!!!!
Review: Amy Tan shares with her readers the complexity of four relationships between mothers and daughters, all brought together at a mah jong table. This book reaches out to all people no matter what nationality or gender. The main point is still the same. Children often do not take the time to really know their parents, and the parents really never take the time to teach the children. In effect communication is lost, and they grow apart. Only when it is too late, do the children understand how much alike they were to their parents. If someone was lost or confused while reading this book, maybe they should wait a few years and read it again when they grow up. If they don't like the style; try writing a book with the same message and we'll review it too.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: This novel was perfect. There's nothing else to say. It taught me so much. Every mother and every daughter should read this book. I learned more about China than I could have ever imagined. If you're not at all interested in China before you read it, you will be fascinated by it halfway through.

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Summary: This book was too boring and did not interest me at all.
Review: Amy did alright for this being her first book but she jumped around too much and I lost track of it. It was too boring and I actually got lost in parts of the book because I was just not interested. I had to a midterm paper on it and I couldn't really say anything good about it. I would definitely not recommend this book to anybody I know.

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Summary: Started Off Pretty Good For a Chinese- American Fiction
Review: I thought the story was interesting, but the way it was boring was hard to read, it was boring, plain and simple. The portrait painted by this author of Chinese-Americans is all just fluff. Please, get real.

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Summary: it sucked
Review: this book is only interesting to boring computer geeks who have nothing better to do but read stupid books that the author doesn't even know if everything she said in the book is true. I don't know how anyone could find this pathetic excuse for a good read for english class (boring) even a bit interesting. Please, NO ONE READ THIS DUMB BOOK.

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Summary: It was the most unbearable reading experience
Review: I read this book this year...(9th grade year) we have to do a report on it and it was horrible because there is no information on it.i recommend this to no one because it is pathetic..Amy Tan should learn how to write a book that is not so confusing.