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Summary: Asi-asi
Review: Being a big fan of _The Bean Trees_, the blatant opportunity to get that "more" I was left wanting was irresistable. Did I like the book? Sure! Did I love it? Not exactly. The big mess that ensued cleaned itself up like an episode of "The Brady Bunch", and as nice and quaint as the romance between Alice and Cash was, it didn't thrill me. Taylor's constant fear of attachment to anyone but Turtle was simultaneously relatable and maddening. Annawake was given little chance to develop beyond one and a half dimensions, and all I want to say about Jax and Gundi is that I was left haunted by how simple infidelity can be. That scene made me fear for my then long-distance relationship, and I never quite liked Jax as much afterwards. The story itself was good enough, and as real as the characters all are, my appetite for their world was satiated.However, I adore Kingsolver's style of writing. She really has a way of drawing me in with her stories, presenting characters who partake in political endeavors without seeming self-righteous, making me think about the world around me but still providing an enjoyable read. I would not recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read _The Bean Trees_, 99% of all men, or those who seek concrete realism in what they read. Kingsolver's storybook outlook on life is what makes me love her writing so much. I see no impossibility in living such an existence. For the record: I do not find soaps entertaining, have never touched a romance novel, and never will. I still love Barbara Kingsolver's books. So there!
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Summary: a mother and child chase and face book.
Review: Barbara Kingsolver has a tremendous insight for delivering a story of true meaning. Her ability to write characters so well is amazing. She is the embodiment of what a writer should be doing with their writing. In Pigs in Heaven, she once again delivers her normal brillance with her renown twist of moral. She continues to impress me more and more with her flirtatious means of storytelling. Four stars.
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Summary: This book is better read if your a female
Review: I felt this book was decent for the most part. Being a male reader I had a difficult time reading Kingsolver constantly trash men, which is one of her big themes in this book. Unless your a good interpretive reader, I suggest you skip this one. Kingsolver uses alot of metaphors and unless you are able to connect and understand them you won't get the full aspect of the book. I suggest that only women buy this book, since men will be disgusted with Kingsolvers continuous male bashing. Not only that but this has no plot whatsoever, its all relationship and dialogue, Another words, skip this novel and choose something a little more interesting.
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Summary: Very unrealistic storyline, and downhill from there
Review: With 250+ millions of human beings in the whole US of A, what a fortuitous coincidence that all these people are connected via cousin Sugar. Unbelievable. And then how convenient that Alice and Cash fall for each other! There are supermarket paperback romances with sturdier storylines! I enjoyed the moral questions that Kingsolver raises, but the vehicle to express these issues is quite poor. I think _Animal Dreams_ is a million times better, and _The Poisonwood Bible_ a trillion times better.
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Summary: why write a book that doesn't matter
Review: I think that there are so many better books out there, that one would be wasting their time with this piece of flop. This book has no interesting elements and merely serves as a vehicle for Kingsolver to express some of her social and political morals. You can write a newspaper article about Native American abotions and have it say the same exact thing, so why bother writing a whole book? Perhaps because people think you're smart and you get paid to do it. Perhaps because you're too stupid to know any better.
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Summary: Why are serious readers (and buyers?) subjected to this?
Review: Why are serious readers (and buyers?) subjected to so-called reviews of books from immature and incompetent readers who clearly possess few or no skill for literary criticism? I wonder whether I am the only reader (and frequent purchaser of books from Amazon) who is tired of reading "reviews" from high schoolers who, evidently, were given the review task as a class assignment. (This is not to say that there are not reviews by mature, intelligent high school students who put in the effort to really understand the novels they critique.) Many of these reviews are absolutely dreadful, and some of them are offensive. I don't want to read the homework of other people's children. To the teachers who subject non-high school students to such awful writing: Please find another assignment for your students, and another forum in which they may express themselves. Perhaps you should pair up the students and have them critique each other's reviews. Or have their parents read the books and then evaluate the student reviews. And educators, remember that you need to teach these kids that there is a difference between intelligent, thoughtful critique and ill-considered reactions based mainly on like or dislike, and degree of boredom. These students must get beyond the idea that evaluations of a literary work are simply opinions, and all opinions are equally valid.
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Summary: Kingsolver at her finest.
Review: See "a reader from Texas" (8/9/99) and ditto the comments. Add that I'm familiar with the Trail of Tears, minored in English, am an avid reader ... and Barbara Kingsolver is a breath of fresh air in modern literature. (Yes, I've read all her other books too.) Read this if for no other reason than the Indian Child Welfare Act and Annawake Fourkiller's interpretation..
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Summary: Big disappointment...
Review: This book was on my list of required reading for my English class...however, I think it was a huge let-down. The storyline is flat, and extremely unrealistic. If you enjoy reading books about a generation of feminists... well go ahead, but don't get your hopes up too high.
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Summary: Stinks worst than a skunk!
Review: I think this book was pretty bad. There was many unrealistic situations and the book was boring. The main conflict in the book is dragged all the way to the end of the book and it is very sloppy how it is 'finished'. I think the only thing this book is good for is being a paperweight, a wedge, and also coaster.
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Summary: Great summer read
Review: As a high school English student, I have a required summer reading list and lucky for me, this year the list included Pigs in Heaven. It felt like a breath of fresh air between Invisible Man and The Grapes of Wrath! Kingsolver has a style all her own which I found to be difficult at times but overall a wonderful change. I would recommend this book to any student who needs (or wants) a book to read because it is "light" (unlike most school related books), has a sence of humor to it, and has two great underlying themes (which is a definite plus for those English classes!) I wound recommend this book to anyone!
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