Animal Dreams

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It's a hit!

For about 25 pages, I wasn't sure about this book, but it ended up being absolutely fantastic. I really love Barbara Kingsolver as a novelist. She'... (show more)

For about 25 pages, I wasn't sure about this book, but it ended up being absolutely fantastic. I really love Barbara Kingsolver as a novelist. She's yet to let me down (I just wish she'd come out with a new book). As in most of her books she tells a very compelling story while managing to draw attention to social issues that could stand to be addressed.

One of the things that impresses me the most about her writing is the meaning she manages to bring out without being wordy or complicated. She can write the most basic sentence you've ever seen, but in the context it will suddenly have three or four different shades of meaning that you'd never expect to find there. She also seems to feel no obligation to give us a character to hate, which is a nice change of pace. I couldn't help but like everyone in this book even if most of them were highly flawed. An excellent book that I would highly recommend. (show less)

 

 

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No, it's a flop!

I like like Barbara Kingsolver but after reading most of her books am finding her themes to be a bit redundant.

 

 

by Lindsey Gorney Townsend

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  Over the past few years I've enjoyed many of Barbara Kingsolver's books. Someday I'll get around to reading the Poisonwood Bible that gets such great reviews.
  Animal Dreams was an equally simple and and complex story of a woman who feels she can't go home. She returns to the small town she grew up in to help take care of her father. Growing up she never felt accepted by the community. This time around things are different, but she doesn't necessarily see it that way. Reading this book was a g... (show more)

  Over the past few years I've enjoyed many of Barbara Kingsolver's books. Someday I'll get around to reading the Poisonwood Bible that gets such great reviews.
  Animal Dreams was an equally simple and and complex story of a woman who feels she can't go home. She returns to the small town she grew up in to help take care of her father. Growing up she never felt accepted by the community. This time around things are different, but she doesn't necessarily see it that way. Reading this book was a great way to spend the day waiting for the movers... that never came! (show less)

   

   

  by Alyssa McKillip on Oct 20, 2009 at 05:16AM

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  This book reminded me exactly why I don't read books anymore! I was reading it as I walked to the metro, I stayed up way too late to finish it and then cried myself to sleep at the end. Barbara Kingsolver is an excellent writer. Although her characterizations from book to book can be a bit redundant, she puts experiences/thoughts I have had perfectly and succinctly into one statement that makes me go "exactly!" And although the story can drag a bit at times, I nearly always fin... (show more)

  This book reminded me exactly why I don't read books anymore! I was reading it as I walked to the metro, I stayed up way too late to finish it and then cried myself to sleep at the end. Barbara Kingsolver is an excellent writer. Although her characterizations from book to book can be a bit redundant, she puts experiences/thoughts I have had perfectly and succinctly into one statement that makes me go "exactly!" And although the story can drag a bit at times, I nearly always finish the book caring deeply about each character. And although I haven't visited the places she writes about, she helps me feel like I have. That is good writing. (show less)

   

   

  by Facebook-användare on Dec 16, 2008 at 11:01PM

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