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Summary: haunting!
Review: I just read this book over the weekend because I became attached to it. This book leaves you wanting for more and the ending is horrifically sad. Probably one of the best I've read.
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Summary: Skip this one.
Review: I picked up this book because I've read two other books by Anne Tyler that I greatly enjoyed, but I was disappointed by this one. Maybe it was written before she really hit her stride as a writer. While entertaining, the book seemed somewhat empty. I didn't find the characters' actions very believable, and the "surprise" ending did not follow from anything earlier in the book (as all really good surprise endings should). The virtue of this book is that it can be quickly read in one evening. I do recommend Tyler's books "A Patchwork Planet" and "Earthly Posessions."
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Summary: Skip this one.
Review: I picked up this book because I've read two other books by Anne Tyler that I greatly enjoyed, but I was disappointed by this one. Maybe it was written before she really hit her stride as a writer. While entertaining, the book seemed somewhat empty. I didn't find the characters' actions very believable, and the "surprise" ending did not follow from anything earlier in the book (as all really good surprise endings should). The virtue of this book is that it can be quickly read in one evening. I do recommend Tyler's books "A Patchwork Planet" and "Earthly Posessions."
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Summary: Not as Good as Accidental Tourist
Review: I read this book after being enchanted by the Accidental Tourist and other of Anne Tyler's books. This book deals with the life of a depressed teenage girl and unless that kind of thing interest you, I would not recommend reading it. On the up side, it's really short so you can get through it rather quickly. I was hoping to read a good book, but only felt worse after finishing this one.
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Summary: Not as Good as Accidental Tourist
Review: I read this book after being enchanted by the Accidental Tourist and other of Anne Tyler's books. This book deals with the life of a depressed teenage girl and unless that kind of thing interest you, I would not recommend reading it. On the up side, it's really short so you can get through it rather quickly. I was hoping to read a good book, but only felt worse after finishing this one.
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Summary: Not Tylers Best but a great book!
Review: I read this book when I was a teenager. I have reread it since along with almost everything that Tyler has ever written. It is a good book. It is not a happy book. It is about life, sometimes life is not happy. I became a Tyler fan as an adult and something reminded me of a book I'd read long ago as a teenager. Could that have been the same book? It was 'A Slipping-Down Life.' Rereading it as an adult I could feel the emotions of Evie. That is a good book. When you can feel like an obsessed teen making stupid decisions when you are in your thirties, that is writing!
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Summary: Pathetic... I feel so bad for Evie Decker.
Review: okay. right now I am doing a review of this book for my english class. Its too bad that I had to choose the book I was to review before I read it. The author's style in this book is pathetic. The only thing I can say the author has going for her, judging souly on this book is that she is very good at characterization. Her characters are intended to be pathetic, and indeed, they are.
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Summary: A good book
Review: this book is good i dont know what these other people are thinking of course the charaters are pathetic thats the point lifes not all fun and games grrrrrrrrr hose off you people who didn't like this book
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Summary: HORRID
Review: This novel was horrible!!!!! The characters were so pathetic. What a life Evie has, a scared forehead and a horrible husband. All this at the age of 17. I kept reading hoping the story would pick-up but, it didn't. This book was very dissapionting.
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Summary: " Evie Decker: Fake Teen"
Review: Tyler does not do much research on teen and their life. While reading this novel I wondered if she herself had ever experienced her teenage years. Although Tyler makes her characters very depressing, this depressing feeling makes you think about life. Tyler made some very fullfiling points, but did not express them to her known capabilities.
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