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Summary: A big disappointment for those seeking romance
Review: I bought The Love Letter because of all the positive press. I'd just finished reading Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True, a fairly weighty 900-page saga, and was looking for something light, fresh and romantic. Unfortunately, I did not find what I was looking for in The Love Letter; every character was embellished beyond belief - no one had a simple thought or action. I put the book down before reaching the halfway mark and consider it a waste of money.
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Summary: At least I won't waste time seeing the movie!!
Review: My friend and I were intrigued by the write-up on the back of the cover and we decided to read it together. Hard to say which one of us liked the novel least. There were no sympathetic characters, the writing style is completely unsophisiticated and the "mystery" didn't hold our interest. We're still blaming each other for picking it out!
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Summary: BORING!!! The best part of the book is the cover design.
Review: I managed to read this through to the end and I thanked God it was a short book. I kept waiting for something to happen to spark my interest. Halfway through I figured it was a lost cause, but then I wondered how the author was going to finish this "banal" little story. I would not even recommend this book as a summer vacation book. Not worth your time!
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Summary: Don't bother reading this book!!!!
Review: When I first started seeing the hype for this book,I thought it would be good. But, it isn't. I was extremely dissapointed. It's so boring and dull that I didn't even bother finishing it. If I could, I'd give this book a zero. I got myself 3/4 read, but was so digusted by the story and characters I couldn't finish. Helen is a self-absorbed, sef-centered women. Is Johnny 20 or 10? I couldn't tell. If I were you, don't read it. It's a waste of time.
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Summary: A Disappointing Read
Review: I had purchased this book awhile ago but decided to read it when I heard that Kate Capshaw had optioned it for a movie. What a disappointment. It's boring. The love story is banal. Helen is obnoxious. There's not much of a plot. This is what Hollywood thinks would make an interesting movie? Which underwritten character is Tom Selleck playing?
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Summary: Pretentious and Condescending
Review: This is only slightly better than The Evolution of Jane. The female characters are shallow, arragant and bitchy. Frankly, the characterizations of the women seem to be written by a bitter man instead of a woman. I've thrown good money after bad on this author and won't make the same mistake again. I sincerely hope that the forthcoming screenplay left out 95% of the book and rewrote the rest.
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Summary: Yuk!
Review: Yes, Danielle Steele fluff. I couldn't finish it although I forced myself through 3/4 of it.
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Summary: Life-Changing Literature
Review: There are certain books, plays, and poems that speak to the soul; one leaves them with a line or two fixed in the mind and with an overall impression embedded in the heart. "The Love Letter" is one of those books. Schinde deals with Helen's mom's lesbian affair with class and humor; it is indirectly the focus of the entire novel, though readers aren't aware of that until the book's end. "I know I'm in love when I see you, I know when I long to see you. You ARE all wrong for me, I know it, but I no longer care for my thoughts unless they're thoughts of you." Peeling an orange, driving my car, this book hangs about me. It calls to that most vital drive in each of us - the need to love and be loved. More importantly, it recognizes that that need compels us whether our love is approved and sanctioned by those around us or not.
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Summary: On my list of top 10
Review: Fluff? No, I don't think so. Helen isn't perfect, by any means; but she's surely one of my favorite fictional characters. Schine has a control of the language that I envy- her economy is amazing. If you didn't like this book, perhaps you should turn to Anne Rice, who must get paid by the word.Four stars from me, and it would be five, but the book was too short.
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Summary: PURE FLUFF!
Review: Maybe it's only a matter of taste, but this book was one step above Danielle Steel! Perfect Helen with her perfect relationship with her perfect daughter was annoying and boring, and the whole story would have been a waste if not for the atmosphere of the bookstore and some of the characters who both worked and shopped there. The only likeable character was Johnny, and of course, he falls in love with Perfect Helen, ignoring the two nineteen year old college students he is working with! I do think, however, that this book will make a cute movie (which is currently being filmed in Rockport, MA starring Kate Capshaw as Helen).
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