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Summary: Excellent
Review: Without a doubt one of the best books I've ever read. Could not and did not want to put it down. Now I want to read everything that Alice Hoffman wrote. I found myself with a pencil, marking off passages. A great read from beginning to end!!!!
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Summary: Older woman from the Washington, DC area finds it ENGROSSING
Review: I found the story to be very well done even though it wasn't a happy story as I hoped it would be. At times, I felt I was smack in the middle of Wuthering Heights. All of the main characters were to be pitited somewhat. Even though March and Hollis had a special connection, I was very glad that March finally reached the conclusion that she did since it was the only logical thing that could be done. I'm very interested in reading Practical Magic now.
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Summary: Shocking twist at the end
Review: I really enjoyed this book, and as a fan of suspense and twists, this one was a killer! It was surprising how the love of her life turns into a womanizing demanding abusive man. The love that March has for Hollis is one that I feel most people can relate to. Sometimes we have loving eyes that never see the negative things in the one we love. This book should hit home for many readers.
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Summary: Tripe
Review: Poorly written and so many lost threads of the story. No follow through and an abrupt ending. Yuck!
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Summary: Absolutely wonderful
Review: I bought this book at a local Wal-Mart out of desperation for something to read. I read the back of it and was moved to buy it by the lines, "This dark romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you," and, ". . . for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth." This was the bait that drew me in. The dark romance, the realism, the prose-- it's a classic. But, be warned, it is not for everyone. If you're disturbed by domestic abuse, incest, or drunken hermits, stay away from it. But if you love a story that's dark, passionate, and ultimately tragic-- go for it.
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Summary: This book is brilliant realism that reads like pure poetry.
Review: I found this book amazing. It angers, saddens, excites and disturbs, while telling all in rich and beautiful language. Although many people are angered by the realistic insight to an abusive relationship, it is written with truth and sincerity. This is no "feel good" book, it is a masterpiece of literature. It is Hoffman's best book by any standards.
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Summary: Depression and Cruelty makes this book an original writing
Review: I'm proud of AH being able to have the guts to write such a mean and cruely depressing story. You think in the end there would be a happy ending and all full of happy till it gets sickening love and fluff, but no...she turns the characters into abused and hurt love blind females, and men who are too controlling over love. Way to go, your confidence of the readers is at an all time high Hoffman! Keep up this dreary moody writing of characters, if you don't keep fiction original no one can!!!!!
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Summary: Realistic Characters, Deep analyst
Review: The messages of addiction, self-hatred and self-indulgence were disturbing and twisted...which made this book out to be one of the best pitiful character books I have read. You can't but help pity the lovestruck March and the lost Mr. Justice. The characters in the end make a complete 180 degrees turn, meaning they develop within time, for better or for worse, which only shows the best new psychologic analyst of books so far, is Alice Hoffman. HERE ON EARTH shows us how people can change, all because of being tied to a tree because of an envious brother, or being posessive of the ones you love. What was the most beautiful would have to be how the author shows us how simple teenage love making every night in your attic can turn into an obsession where you care about the one you love, but don't understand why. Beautiful.
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Summary: BEST OF THE OPRAH BOOK CLUB
Review: Here on Earth is a beautiful piece of fiction. Yes, Hoffman's unusual and original prose style may leave you straying off to the more traditional ways of prose, but it's just fantastic and touching to read if you TRY to enjoy the magnificence of her depicted words and odd metaphores. The first few pages is full of details of the earth, quite unnessesary really, but when you start chapter 2, you'll be hooked. This book has all the twists, turns, adultry, and trashiness of a Danielle Steel or Stephen King, but there's also the elegance and structure of a Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy, or even the difficulty of grasping the human ways of thinking-psychology- like that of Fyodor Dostoevsky. But what most readers need to understand is that in this book, you have to look below the surface, and there you will find the true meanings of the actions, and emotions that take place in this great modern fiction.
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Summary: Here on Earth...love isn't simple
Review: I just loved the telling of how bondage of marriage can keep two together, even though there are others that may lead your heart astray. In a little town, where gossip is a normal day of life, and secrets all told, love is something quite difficult to grasp. Neighbors in love with neighbors, old school friends envying each other still. Oprah sure does pick depressing books, but this one sure ain't full of that fluff in the ending. The ending is shocking and unexpected (you can't always get what you want, you know) but the best and most exciting I've yet to read.
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