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Summary: Oprah, here's your next book!
Review: As a Georgia "Geechee Girl", I got lost in the lingo that comes so natural in the Low Country(SC)/Coastal Empire(GA). Livvie comes off the page and is so much a collage of Gullah women.I loved the past(1963) and present (1999) stories being told as chapter flashbacks. The past was captured so well, and made me aware of how far we have come. Susan is a wonderful heroine. Emotionally damaged, but a surviver with humor. Her dating scenes are a hoot. I wanted to kick then hug Tom; play with Roger's mind; and take Simon to bed. But I really want Kim's number, if he is a real hair stylist in Charleston.
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Summary: take me back to the shore!
Review: I have recently moved to the desolate (a.k.a. Atlantic free) province of Texas and needed something to remind me of my home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Sullivan's Island took me there - I was absolutely unable to put it down! I am comforted to know that whenever I become homesick there is a book I can read to ease my pain!
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Summary: A "Must Read"
Review: A wonderful book. Warm, fascinating characters, a really good story set in a place I'd like to visit, a little sex and a lotta love! Wise and insightful. Very funny. I hope Ms. Frank writes many more books. I will read them all. She is truly gifted.
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Summary: TRULY INSPIRATIONAL STORY!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! I fell in love with the island (and I have never been there), but I felt like I was there while reading this wonderful story, of hope, miracles, friendship, love, and dealing with tragedy...The Character "Livvie" was the great Mom of all Moms and she along with Susan and Maggie really kept the family together..I especially enjoyed the relationship that Susan had with her daughter Beth....Great book, and I definitely look forward to more novels by Ms Dorothea Benton Frank!
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Summary: A Great Find
Review: A good story of a non-perfect woman readying to truly face her life for the first time. You don't need to be from Sullivan's Island to appreciate this writer's gifts. Her humor is a blessing, adding color and joy to the story. The tale was wonderfully nonpredictable - not at all a formula book. I found the ending a bit too sugary, but it did not detract from the book. For a page turner - this is it. Try it!
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Summary: This book is hard to put down once you start!
Review: I loved this book! A great book to take to the beach.....Reminds me in a way of a Anne Rivers Siddons book, but lighter & funnier. More of a modern heroine- MORE LIKE ME! Cant wait to see what Ms. Frank does next!
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Summary: Tale of Lowcountry Gets My Highest Rating
Review: Oh, how rare it is to find a book that truly takes you away from the cares of real life! The heroine's life becomes your own as you become immersed in life on Sullivan's Island and in Charleston. A wonderful read for anyone,but especially for women. Ms Frank understands growing up and is not afraid to talk about the difficult times in life. I can't wait for her next book.
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Summary: Sullivan's Island
Review: I read a lot of books, and Sullivan's Island caught my eye because of the title (I'm from South Carolina and have spent many happy hours on Sullivan's Island). Much to my surprise this book is wonderful! Well written and a book I could hardly put down, I also felt as one of the previous reviewers had stated, that I was as part of the character's family! South Carolina is full of character's of which fictionally appear in Ms. Frank's book and her masterful storytelling is to admired. I'm glad I now have a female writer I can put on the same pedestal along with Pat Conroy (another of one of my favorite storytellers).
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Summary: Lowcountry Girl Loves Book
Review: Believe me this is a GREAT read and just in time for those looking to take a book on vacation. Sit back, relax and enjoy lowcountry life! I was eager to grab this book and start reading. The characters are great (we do appreciate our southern relatives) and the scenery is real folks. How do I know? I am lucky enough to live here. I didn't want to put it down. Hurry up with the next one Dorthea, we are waiting.
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Summary: Pure dreck
Review: PURE DRECK This trite, formulaic novel is filled with cliched Southern woman, a 20-something blonde bimbo homewrecker, a fabulous gay hairdresser and, most egregious, a wise, nurturing, lovably bossy mammy-a pure stereotype that fairly drips with inadvertent condescension and sentimentality. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a character that could have sprung straight from the pages of "Gone with the Wind" (see p. 119, where the character says: "These men don\222t know nothing about babies but I can deliver that chile myself iffin I have to, so move over!""). Perhaps even more egregious than its literary weaknesses, however, is the fact that the representation of South Carolina Lowcountry culture is woefully inaccurate here. More specifically, the notion that white children, growing up in the late 1950's and early 1960's on a sleepy but nonetheless relatively developed island a 20-minute drive from downtown Charleston, would have "spoken Gullah" is nothing short of ludicrous. And yet that is precisely what this book, in a transparent attempt at constructing an "exotic" setting, would have us believe. While the narrator concedes that Gullah "mostly used English words in our lifetime," we are nonetheless expected to accept at face value white, urban characters in their 40's who actually "speak Gullah" to each other in 1999. It is of course entirely plausible that white children raised in a household in which a domestic servant whose first language was Gullah was employed might have picked up a few turns of phrase here and there-- and perhaps a slight inflection-- that hinted at some Gullah influence. Even more likely is that such children might have clumsily played at "speaking Gullah," in a sort of dubious running joke amongst themselves. However, to find white children genuinely "speaking Gullah" or even in a true version of the "Geechee" accent that grew out of the Gullah language, one would have to go back at least one full generation prior to the children of the 1950's and 60's being represented in this novel (and even then, it would have been considerably more likely in a more geographically and culturally remote rural setting such as Johns Island or Wadmalaw). The laudatory blurbs from such established authors as Pat Conroy, John Berendt and Bret Lott on the cover of this awful piece of work are puzzling. Don't believe the hype: Sullivan's Island is pure dreck. y\222all.
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