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Summary: A Legacy of Love...
Review: I'm not a regular Steel reader, but I've found "Thurston House" to be a good read. Sabrina, the heroine, leads an interesting life which most women in early 20th-century America would not have partaken. Both Sabrina and her father, Jeremiah, are very well-developed characters, and one will become captivated by them. Steel's grammar and syntax leave something to be desired, but the reader can overlook those errors and become engrossed in a fascinating read which gives the reader some food for thought about love and the decisions one makes in life.
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Summary: Typical and beyond: Still a great read...
Review: It's been awhile since I've read DS and I was quickly captured by the usual style of her writing. The local is near my home so I am very familiar with the SF and Napa areas. It's written in late 1890's through the 1900's; one of my favorite eras.This story of a wonderful man, Jerimiah Thurston, loosing his first love and burying himself in his work WAS typical. At the same time, the story goes beyond the typical when he finds himself in love (inappropriately, he feels at first) with a young Southern girl; young enough to be his daughter. This is not considered unusual in this time period, so I was happy for him, yet wondering where it would all lead. Where it leads is THE story. She, Camille, turns out to be his worst nightmare and the worst nightmare of her own daughter. I was shocked and dismayed at her behavior, however that is one reason the story was so compelling. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next. What Camille does towards the end of the story was truly "ballsy" (for lack of a better adj). True to form, DS weaves a tale of unreal, bewildering characters and plots. The descriptive quality of the San Francisco and Napa areas will make you want to visit Thurston House. You won't believe the end! Only four stars as I felt the end was a little rushed; however you get the point!
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Summary: Lots of struggle and suffering, which all, happily, ends.
Review: Like many of the author's earlier works, "Thurston House" details the lifetime of its heroine, her suffering, and her many, many struggles. "Thuston House" is a tale of suffering and redemption that, for the reader at least, is long on the suffering and short on the redemption. It does however, have quite a happy ending. When I reached the end, I was quite happy. If you are a fan of Barbara Stanwyck's later pictures, or books like "The Lives of Saints and Martyrs" then this book is for you.
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Summary: Lots of struggle and suffering, which all, happily, ends.
Review: Like many of the author's earlier works, "Thurston House" details the lifetime of its heroine, her suffering, and her many, many struggles. "Thuston House" is a tale of suffering and redemption that, for the reader at least, is long on the suffering and short on the redemption. It does however, have quite a happy ending. When I reached the end, I was quite happy. If you are a fan of Barbara Stanwyck's later pictures, or books like "The Lives of Saints and Martyrs" then this book is for you.
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Summary: extremly boring
Review: most of danielle steels characters are stereotypes-suffering females who have brief bursts of joy-oodles of suffering-and then all the stories end happily ever after.
sabrina-is good,her mother is bad-her son is bad-but almost becomes good before he dies, please---i don't even know why i read these books-----they make hardly any sense--and leave me feeling really hollow. in some ways an ordinary mills and boon scores better----atleast there is humour and interesting talk. avoid this book-u can do better stuff with ur time.
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Summary: extremly boring
Review: most of danielle steels characters are stereotypes-suffering females who have brief bursts of joy-oodles of suffering-and then all the stories end happily ever after.
sabrina-is good,her mother is bad-her son is bad-but almost becomes good before he dies, please---i don't even know why i read these books-----they make hardly any sense--and leave me feeling really hollow. in some ways an ordinary mills and boon scores better----atleast there is humour and interesting talk. avoid this book-u can do better stuff with ur time.
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Summary: Oy vey . . . This book . . . is rather . . . stinky.
Review: My "friends" persuaded me to read this one, as I had admitted to never having cracked a Danielle Steel in my life. Now I know why. This is so poorly written, every page felt like a chore. Steel's constant use of ellipses . . . makes the reader . . . feel like an engine is . . . sputtering. How does this woman sell so many books? Must be the sex. Of course, the book got me riled up to write this review, so it must have affected me somehow.
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Summary: Yuck!
Review: Once again Ms Steel pursues her penchant for romance between a young woman and a man old enough to be her father, and in some cases her grandfather. As a parent with 4 daughters I find this concept revolting, but it obviously titillates the author because she has written any number of books with this theme. Enough already!
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Summary: All you expect is in this wonderful story
Review: People say that the kind of book Danielle Steel writes will fade one day. They say the modern romantic literature is now written in a funny, desperate and more feminist way. I disagree with that. Taking the famous Bridget Jones as an example, I have to say that, even being a little funny the first time, to a male audience, the second book about this character didn't seem as fetching as the first one. While one was a bit funny and interesting to a man, the second one seemed slow, repetitive and not as good. And to the few male audience Danielle Steel has, since the overwhelming audience is made of women, this does not happen with Danielle Steel anyway. Although her books have always the same kind of plot: a person who suffers from beginning to end - usually a woman - finding at that end a person to love and live happilly ever after - her books are interesting, they have a real plot, and they are a good reading because they portrait people like us all. They seem real, while the "funny" and "modern" ones usually don't portrait a real person to the reader, but a kind of freak that is usually presented to the reader in a way almost like a caricature. Danielle Steel knows how to portrait to the reader everything. Since the dramas and suffering everyone feels during a lifetime, and the happiness, joy and pleasure to live we all have. That's exactly what happens with this book. THURSTON HOUSE has all this. Even being a little melodramatic with some destination the characters take, the book has also many enjoyable scenes, showing to the reader she has many things to offer as a real modern novelist. This book is everything you could expect from a book like that. And I'm quite sure that, if you like this kind of stories, you'll love that one, whick to me is one of Danielle's best books. If you don't like that genre but is curious on how it works, this is also a great reading. The only thing you can't do is miss this book. You have to read that one and be as hooked as I was when I read it. Marco Aurelio.
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Summary: A good book
Review: this book is nice but sometimes is very superficial, but you pass a great time reading it. The author is not so good like everyone, say she is a regular writer, no more. She is not so excellence like one friend tell me.
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