On Bethel Ridge: A Christmas Fable

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Summary: Wonderful and highly evocative
Review: It took me a long time to understand the significance of the animals, but once I did the book really made a lot of sense. Not since Orwell have pigs and elephants been so beautifully--and sensuously--re-appropriated to the world of allegory. This book is a cunning, linguistic achievement.

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Summary: Terrific
Review: It was great. A truly good read. That's all I can say right now. That's all for today. No more questions, Please!

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Summary: Delicious
Review: Now here at last is a book with universal appeal. Kids and adults can both enjoy Phil Austin's compact and beatifully written Christmas tale. "On Bethel Ridge" is a unique work of magical realism, incorporating the day to day problems and emotions of an ordinary family with the power of myth.

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Summary: The blead and the rack
Review: Well, it's like I bought this book called On Bethel someplace or other, right. And its got like this like family and their all kind of screwed up and lonely and dysfunctional and stuff over Christmas. But that's cool, I mean who isn't man? So I starts reading this book and I sees that there's this Indian Chief in it, so I go "Cool, an Indian Chief!" And like he goes into the hospital where there's like this old Russian dude whose like sick or something. And they like start having social intercourse. And I really thought like they would assault each other, or over-run each others' borders or interfere with each other, but instead they have like this beautiful cultural understanding of each other. And there's like these implications of all this mystical stuff and then the family like lives happily ever at least for that moment. And I really like it, because reality is so hard that like the mystical stuff is way cool. I went out and bought a cat and I named it "hello angel" which is totally cool.