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Great!

Revisado: 02-02-25

Very compelling well organized story of our earth and its evolution. Thank you Dr Knoll for a delightful informative read

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Wonderful prose

Revisado: 01-18-24

Catton is a superb writer. I couldn’t put this book down. I loved the twists and turns, I loved how the characters evolved especially the 2 main characters. I loved how real they were, complex people who grew and matured as the book developed. The story line was compelling and got more and more complex and intriguing as it neared the ending.
All in all a very enjoyable and thought provoking book. I highly recommend!

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Wonderful book great reader

Revisado: 01-29-23

This book is fabulous. Unusual plot, wonderful characters and settings, and almost perfect narration. Thank you

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Depthless

Revisado: 10-23-21

I was interested in reading Franzen because of the fairly positive press surrounding his books. He was compared to Roth and Stegner, the great American male writer and so I picked up The Corrections.
Franzen is a good writer. He brings life to his characters and their world but his distain for them, his mercurial insight into their petty desires, their foibles leave me cold and uninterested. I find his fixation on young women and their breasts to be particularly offensive. There are other writers as graphic (Sally Rooney for one) but with far greater sensibility.
Maybe I should have given the book more of a chance but why waste time when I can read and reread Wallace Stegner a more nuanced and complicated author

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What's right and what's wrong with White Fragility

Revisado: 06-13-20

In general this book has a lot of good stuff to say about racism and in particular institutionalized racism in America. The author has done a fair amount of research into the subject matter and quotes several important names in the field. However she does not back up some of the generalizations with data and she passes over some of the subjective reasons why whites may be hesitant to engage in conversations about racism with blacks.

Regardless of whether our personal experiences with others should impact us, they do. Talking about racism necessitates n atmosphere of trust and safety. The author cites several examples when she engaged in discussions of racism...the environments in which she did so were relatively 'safe' and the use of non violent , non aggressive language were clearly noticeable. An open and illuminating discussion of racism will happen when people feel safe. I wish the author had addressed non violent communication and trust in the final chapters of the book.
I need to learn about racism, I need to accept the legacy of racism and I need to accept complicity. Thank you for laying out such a convincing argument despite the language which was used to do so and despite its short comings

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What’s all the hooplas about

Revisado: 04-26-20

I thought this book was good but not splendid, it’s a revisit of an old subject.
Yes there is horror and sorrow in life but the question should be ( I think) ‘how to transcend the personal’
What can we learn from life past all the misery?

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great book

Revisado: 06-07-18

This is a wonderful book told by three different people. Each section is a story on to itself though there seems to be a link between the 3. I especially liked the middle section which is about a young man stuck in the London Airport because of his origins. The narrator has a beautifully modulated voice and his story is heart wrenching without being maudlin.

The first and third sections are also quite good though I found those two stories (which are more closely linked than the 2nd) of less interest. The first is about a young woman's affair with a well known writer who is much older than she is. Some of the descriptive passages are quite beautiful and it is not hard, on some level, to sympathize with the protagonist's sense of futility
and loneliness but it doesn't have the same relevance as the 2nd section.

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Great book

Revisado: 07-09-15

Benjamin Black never fails to entertain and what a superb mystery writer with wonderful details

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The Girl on the Train

Revisado: 04-12-15

This story was fairly good though a bit of a stretch and I didn't really like any of the characters.
The main character was at times brilliant and other times deadly boring. The male characters were louses and the wife a bit unbelievable. I liked Megan and the psychiatrist somewhat ( they were more interesting than the others but they never really developed into full fledged characters.
Over all I would not recommend this book

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