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Summary: Need a Nap?
Review: I found this book to be especially boring until it takes off in Part 3. The first 2 parts definitely could have been condensed with a little more action to hook the reader in. I do not recommend this book to anyone unless you want to be bored, frusterated at March's stupidity, and left with an overall depressed feeling.
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Summary: Ending doesnt leave loose ends
Review: The book ends at a natural place and doesn:t leave loose ends. The book was about the relationship between Hollis and March, and it naturally ends with the end of that relationship.
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Summary: Haunting and spellbinding
Review: I originally read this book because it was an Oprah Book Club selection. After reading it, though, I've become a big fan of Alice Hoffman, who, in this novel, has spun a dark tale about love, rebellion, passion, violence, control and domination in this book. When March Murray returns to her hometown with her teenage daughter for the funeral of her old friend and housekeeper, she reunites with her first love, a man named Hollis. It's a story one too many of us can relate to. In the marshlands of Massachusetts, we helplessly watch March sink deep into her lover's world, until there's nearly nothing left of her.Alice Hoffman writes in the present tense, with an omniscient point of view-two qualities that I generally dislike. But Hoffman handles it beautifully, gliding from one character to the next in this story that captures the strands of each person's web, and ties them all together. It would do all women good to read this story, because most of us have known a Hollis, and some of us have been a March.
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Summary: Gripping and Well Written!
Review: Alice Hoffman is a excellent writer; she allows the reader to become intimately involve with every aspects of the characters. The book was so intoxicating I could'nt put it down. Most importantly, the characters were real and believable. I am also a fan of Ms. Hoffman other book- Black And Blue. I would highly recommend both books as a MUST READ.
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Summary: Lousy...it sucked the big one!
Review: Here on Earth? How about Anywhere but Here? March, Hollis and the rest of the dysfunctinal characters in this poorly written novel are nothing to write home about. And I don't know why Hofmman wasted her time telling their tale. One, though there were some similar eerie elements between this book and Wuthering Heights, hoffman is no Bronte. Hollis is a sicker Heathcliff than the original. Garnered no sympathy from me! March is no Cathy. Cathy never would have allowed Heathcliff to mistreat her like hollis mistreated/manipulated March. Cathy was always in control. She and Heathcliff were like fire and fire. March and Hollis are like a moth swallowed up by flames. There's no love only lust. The passion is sick and dangerous. Hollis is evil, manipulative, unlikable and unsexy. I can suspend belief long enough to indulge my fantasies but this book was not fitting the bill for me. The town it is based in is rife with debauchery, incest, abuse, alcoholism, as unethical as imaginable and Hoffman has some imagination! Aggrivating all over the place plot, could not relate to the characters (the ones who didn't make me ill or angry) and despite the author's inclusion of sex scenes, foul language and all sorts of 'titilating' taboos, the book dragged, bogged down by Hoffman's slow prosey writing. Details ad nauseum. Actually so inane and boring I had to gloss over parts of it and force myself to finish it. What a waste oftime THAT was! Save yourself the time, if not the money, and read something else!
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Summary: junk
Review: I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who wanted their money back. This book is junk and my time is too precious (whose isn't?) to waste on this drivel. The writing was so poor--trite and cliche--that little things began to bother me immensely. For example, does Ms. Hoffman know that daffodils do not close in response to the wind? Once the blooms are open, they stay open. Does she know that, due to chestnut blight, there are virtually no chestnut trees left in North America? At least none tall enough for mourning doves, or any bird for that matter, to nest in each spring. If she's going to incorporate natural science into her novels, she should at least get it right, because there is nothing else "right" about this junk. Amazon.com should let me choose the option of a zero star rating because it is well earned in this case.
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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down
Review: I loved this book, it was an enchanting yet chilling expedition into the human heart. A heart led on my memories of love, blinded by compassion and awakened only by pain. As a 16 yr old this book held me like a moth chasing flies in the flame! I read it within a day.
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Summary: Oprah- What were you thinking?
Review: DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT read this book. Do not waste your time on this uncreative and poorly written "book"- and I use that term loosely. If you are looking for a good tale, read the original- Wuthering Heights. There is no subsitute for the original Catherine and Heathcliff!
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Summary: Read it
Review: This is a good book. Although it has usage of bad words, which at some points are not needed, this is an interesting book. This book is a rather compassionate book which, I think, should only be read by elder people and elder teenage kids. This is a great story which deals with things that may even happen in real life. This book is a strong one because it deals with real life happenings. I encourage all ages of viewers to read this book. Especially ones who love books with deep and compassionate stories to them. This may have bad language where not need but it has great story line to it.
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Summary: Jill's Thought
Review: First of all, things I like about this book. I like the Reunion between Hollis and March In which March returns For the funeral of judith and find's her Lost love! Next I also like the blind love shared between Gwen and Hank upon discovering that they are actually related. And i thought it was even more touching in the way that they met, this being the stubborn horse tamed by the gentleness of Gwen. Now, things that I dont like about the book. I dont like the lieing of March and Gwen in which they with held information from Richard about March's cheating! Finally, i think the blatent and repetetive swearing in which the author uses to explain many points is completely unneccesary and frankly tasteless! She could have used better words to make the same point, and the repetiveness of the dialogue makes it confusing!
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