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| Name : | Brenda D. |
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I was thoroughly annoyed with the characters and was tempted to leave the book unfinished.
This book is a nice read for summer. It has sympathetic characters and a happy ending.
I think that this book gives a good insight into the character of Americans as seen by people of other cultures. It also has a good deal of accurate research on the conditions in "the Congo" during the time just before its "revolution." The book is long, and it can become tedious if the reader is not sufficiently engaged in the dynamics of the lives of the characters.
The Dollmaker has some sympathetic characters and some that the reader will "love to hate." However, there were many sub-plot lines that went nowhere, causing some confusion.
This was a good Christmas read and made several salient points about our need for control as well as our tendency to manufacture "traditions."
This story illustrates the similarities in human experience regardless of their place in time.
This was a believable memoir, and I think it was honestly written. It was interesting to watch the "me" mature.
Once again, Dean Koontz provides characters, human and animal, that the reader immediately bonds with. Koontz\\\\\\\'s poetic descriptions and philosophical musings weave artistically throughout the novel, turning the plot into a tapestry of color and sensation.
This book gave a great deal to discuss as far as moral choices are concerned as well as questions regarding what constitutes love.
This was a well-written book with well-drawn characters. I read it in one day.
Our book club enjoyed the book. The discussion questions were great and raised a lot of differing opinions.
The first third of the book does give the reader some insight into the mind of the addict, but the required disjointedness makes it difficult to read. The second third is repetitive. Many of our members skipped it. The last third reads easily and does give some relief from the heaviness of the topic.
This is a book with strongly drawn characters. The ways they react to the different influences cause the readers to identify with them in several ways. The setting is described beautifully without weighing the reader down with description.
This book is neither as intense or as dark as The Poisonwood Bible. However, Kingsolver again gives insight into the human characteristics the most of us share. I loved the richness of the setting, the American Southwest.
Everyone in the book club LOVED this book. We could not believe that we missed Ron Hall and Denver Moore when they were first writing the book and speaking. This is a book that will certainly change outlooks, if not lives.
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