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Summary: what a touching book!!
Review: i have always been a varicous reader and i have read quite a lot of books before. but seldom can a book grasp me like ONE TRUE THING does..! i just can't stop myself from rereading it ...!!i like the way how anna quindlen present to the readers the mom vs daughter and the daughter vs dad relationship..they just seem so REAL to me..!! i think anna quindlen really did a great job here..!! thanx anna for giving us this awesome book!!
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Summary: Heart-touching story, but that's about it
Review: I just finished reading "One True Thing" a story of an overachieving daughter coerced to move back home to care for her terminally ill mother. I found the story itself as a whole very moving, but Ms. Quindlen's writing abilities somewhat lagging. I found it difficult to put the overall story into sequential order. The time plots jumped around from paragraph to paragraph. I was expecting a book that I could read in a few days, maybe a week, instead I found a book that I felt a need to finish in order to start another book. Her words didn't keep me longing for the next page, nor did I get as emotional as I thought I would. Overall, I would recommend the book to those who are easily moved. If you are looking for an unbelievingly touching, kleenex-reaching book however, I would search elsewhere because this one won't do the job.
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Summary: cancer--"One Terrible Thing"
Review: This book was most disturbing. The actual description of the progress of this terrible disease kept me awake all night.The development of Ellen's relationship with her mother was a small reward for reliving the death of a family member from cancer.The theme of disfunction of a family certainly doesn't change when cancer appears.When a book can affect me for days after,I realize that the book has touched me!
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Summary: Excellent and realistic story
Review: Having recently gone through the death of my sister to cancer, I knew this would be a hard book for me to read and I did cry quite a bit. Quindlen did an excellent job of describing what it is like to see someone you love waste away bit by bit and I also think she was accurate in her portrayal of how Ellen came to fully realize how great her mother was. Many of us take our loved ones for granted until a crisis arises and don't fully appreciate how important they are to our past and our present. I really hated Ellen's father, though. He was just so emotionally isolated and toward the end you really think the worst of him. He never did redeem himself in my eyes. Quindlen's "Black & Blue" is also excellent. I'll read everything she writes.
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Summary: This was a great book!!
Review: Anna Quindlen is a great author. I have never read anything by her, but this book was great. Anna made the book so real. As I was reading I began to think of my grandfather-who went through the same things that were happening in the book. He died of cancer at home with my family. It made me cry as I read it just thinking of how this book was like my life and what I went through. It made me want to keep reading to see how this family got through it. It was one of those book that you couldn't put down. You wanted to see what was going to happen in the next chapter, was Ellen going to stop being so selfish?, was Ellen's father going to come home and stop putting his job first? It was great to see how it all turned out. I would tell anyone to read this book. It was just a great book.
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Summary: An implausible syrupy tear-jerker for Quindlen sycophants.
Review: The Quindlen characters are unbelieveably one dimensional, and Quindlen is transparently self-serving. I have worked with terminally ill people for the past 8 years, and I've never encountered anything like this story. The suffering and the pain (both physical and emotional) of cancer patients and their loved ones is real, complex and completely beyond anything Anna Quindlen has ever imagined. Quindlen has cheapened their stories by writing this obvious "book-to-be-optioned-immediately-for-the-movies." Quindlen should donate her immense profits to the national hospice movement.
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Summary: A Mother's Love is the "One True Thing"
Review: By "forcing" his daughter to come home from the big city to a small town to take care of her dying mother, he gives his daughter the most precious gift: a true understanding of the tremendous magnitude of her mother's unconditional love. I thoroughly enjoyed the daughter's tranformation from indifference, to true appreciation for her most incredible mother.
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Summary: tremendous figurative language and imagery!
Review: This book is an engaging tale about the too-late, but finally developing, relationship between a mother and daughter. This is the first book I have ready by Anna Qunidlin, and I plan to read many more. Her writing is extremely figurative and she utilizes the most beautiful metaphors I've come across in a long while. This story is beautifully written and reads very smoothly. The story is one that grips you in from start to finish and you'll find yourself never wanting to put it down!
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Summary: A Statement for our times, our families
Review: I simply could not put the book down. I carried around the house, to bed, and on short drives (I wasn't driving). Ann Quindlan has a way with words, a method of capturing the American experience. In some ways I felt that Katherine's death was a metaphor for the operations of the familiy itself. You see, I have a father who is very similar to Ellen's - though I am more like Brian & Jeff. However, my siblings and I acidly joke that my father would be no good if my mother were to ever come down with a terminal illness. The book was well-written and most of the characters were well-drawn. Jon and Brian were pretty 2-dimentional but I got over that pretty easily. Great book - I've been scouring the web for more like it and more from the formidable Ms. Quindlan.
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Summary: This was an outstanding award winning book
Review: "One True Thing" was an outstanding, it was a book that could be related back to an every day life. I believe the theme of this story is "you don't know what you have until it's gone."
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