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Summary: IT WAS OK
Review: i think that anita shreve books are just ok. i mean they could be better. i mean she just doesn't live an exciting life and she just makes it up. i mean you can tell that her life is not that exciting. where my life thing actually happen. maybe i should write a book. anyways. it is kind of boring like all her other books i read. this one book fortunes rocks that book was not good at all. it sucked and i didn't even read the first four chapters.
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Summary: It Didn't Shine for Me
Review: I've read all of Anita Shreve's books. This one wasn't as good as A Pilot's Wife or The Weight of Water. Her latest book tells the story of the stock market crash in 1929. We see the struggle of the mill workers and the impact of such a horrendous economic blow to all of the various social classes. Honora Beecher is at the centre of the story though the novel is told from 5 different perspectives. Shreve is an outstanding writer in that she uses wonderful, descriptive language and she can explore the human condition and the range of emotions like few other authors. I enjoyed this part of the book, but the story was a little too slow. I felt that some of the characters just didn't come to life like they could have...Vivian, the jaded socialite especially. Overall, this was a good book, just not her best.
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Summary: If You Liked Fortune's Rocks You'll Like Sea Glass
Review: If you read and liked Fortune's Rocks, also by Anita Shreve, Sea Glass is a must read. It was hard to put down.
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Summary: Deadly Dull
Review: Save yourself the money and a huge waste of time - this book was one of the most intensely dull I have ever read. The hopping back and forth between characters was tedious and the characters themselves poorly defined. Shreve eventually decides to try to tie them all together and winds up creating a ridiculous farce of an ending. The whole "sea glass" schmaltz was a cheap and nauseating way of trying to create some kind of romance in this disjointed and, may I say again, BORING novel.
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Summary: Decent beach bag novel
Review: Shreve knows how to weave a captivating yarn. Her characters are fresh and unique, and their stories are meaningful. My favorite aspect of this book was the carefully researched and rendered 1930's New England setting. The only thing that put a slight damper on the novel was the recurrance of particular images and descriptions which did not appear to serve a metaphorical purpose. The sea glass is a potentially fascinating trope, but there wasn't enough in the novel to support its symbolic significance. Despite a few minor weaknesses, Sea Glass is a worthwhile read.
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Summary: Want to escape?
Review: This book's descriptions swallow you and bring you into an entirely different world.
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