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Summary: Don't Even Bother
Review: I loved "Here on Earth", but I was just disgusted with "White Horses"... The fact that an incestuous relationship is treated as 'normal' really bothered me... so much so that I stopped reading half-way through the book, and just skimmed to see what happened. I'm glad I didn't waste any more time on it.
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Summary: White Horses
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. It is hard to identify with any of the characters; I didn't find even one I really liked. Well, maybe Harper. The theme was depressing, even if true for some people. Usually I can't stop reading and am sorry to have a book end. With this one, the end couldn't come fast enough. Usually I like Alice Hoffman's books, but this definitely isn't up to her usual level.
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Summary: Not one of her best!
Review: I'm a big Alice Hoffman fan but I just didn't get this book at all. I didn't realize was why Teresa falling for her own brother and why the both of them (Teresa and Silver) treated their incestous relationship as something normal? No one really taking it seriously except Bergen who learned it too late. Everyone else just accepts and moves on. I couldn't understand why Silver motivation for anything especially his anger. I understand their father's influence over the children and how their parent's violent relationship had traumatized them forever but beyond that. I just couldn't get into, maybe if the incestous relationship was taken out I would had understood it better. I read practically all her books this is not her best try, "Here on Earth"(excellent), "Second Nature"(breathtaking).
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Summary: This one is confusing...
Review: I'm a big fan of Hoffman's and in my haste to read everything she's written, I picked up "White Horses." Unlike her other books, I was not immediately captivated by this; it took me awhile to get into. The characters in this are interesting, but also confounding. It is almost as if they exist in a void, and the rest of the world floats on by. They don't seem to have any real motivation for anything that they do, so it's hard to work up sympathy for them. This book was certainly interesting, and an enjoyable read, but it's not Hoffman's best.
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Summary: This one is confusing...
Review: I'm a big fan of Hoffman's and in my haste to read everything she's written, I picked up "White Horses." Unlike her other books, I was not immediately captivated by this; it took me awhile to get into. The characters in this are interesting, but also confounding. It is almost as if they exist in a void, and the rest of the world floats on by. They don't seem to have any real motivation for anything that they do, so it's hard to work up sympathy for them. This book was certainly interesting, and an enjoyable read, but it's not Hoffman's best.
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Summary: A haunting story of survival
Review: I'm glad I read this book even though the life of the main character, Teresa, is so troublesome and painful. Her physical/mental ailment and her family's breakup tear her life apart. She keeps looking for the ideal man (on a white horse), but finds only abusive males, including her own brother. Although some readers may be repulsed, as I was, by the incest in the book, it's a reality many people face. Alice Hoffman is so diverse in her writing. I enjoyed this book more than her Here On Earth. The book does, I think, end on a positive note, and I keep thinking about Teresa's endurance.
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Summary: I loved the way Theresa smelled like roses when she slept.
Review: It is rare that you hope for a romance to suceed when it is tied to one of the last remaining tabos; incest. I felt for Thersea. She was raised to love the poorest of biological choices; her own brother. I believed along with her that he was the only path to happiness. Hoffman proves that she is as adept with southwestern folklore as she is with the New England variety in this parody of Sleeping Beauty. This book explores many of the same themes as "Here on Earth". Both heroines are fated from their youth to love the wrong man but I feel that the heat of the southwest adds an intensity to this story. In this setting, anything is possible.
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Summary: NOT FOR KIDS!
Review: My eleven year old grand-daughter loves horses so "White Horses" was among the books she chose for me to order for her online. She took it to school one day, came home with it, cut it to shreds, and threw them in the garbage....Make no mistake about it, THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!
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Summary: NOT FOR KIDS!
Review: My eleven year old grand-daughter loves horses so "White Horses" was among the books she chose for me to order for her online. She took it to school one day, came home with it, cut it to shreds, and threw them in the garbage.... Make no mistake about it, THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN!
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Summary: Where are the White Horses???
Review: Rarely do I read a book that I find so underdeveloped as this one. The characters drift along without making any kind of decisions about thier lives, except bad ones. The relationships that they have are unrewarding, and unexplainable. Teresa and her brother Silver have an insestual relationship that is impossible to understand. Dina marries King Conners for no apparent reason, King Conners leaves for an unexplainable reason, Dina falls in love with Bergen, and I don't know why. Silver marries Lee- but he hates her- Teresa almost marries Joey and that relationship is a rediculous sham. At the end of the book- I wanted to shake everyone into reality- at least all of the characters that were left. Most of them just quietly disappeared from the pages, except Dina, who died. This was truly a rediculous story, with unlikable characters in search of mysterious men, or was it white horses? Don't waste your time.
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