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Title: Mrs. Kimble : A Novel by Jennifer Haigh ISBN: 0-06-050939-2 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (30 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A reader from Olympia
Comment: Mrs. Kimble is a compelling readable novel about a chameleon of a man who seduces and marries three very different women. Although this was an enjoyable read, I felt the characters lacked depth. Ken Kimble's motivation for being so smarmy is never explained or understood. More troubling than that was how easily he seemed to charm these women. I found his second wife's sudden conversion from investigative reporter to smitten wife who only scratched the surface of her husbands dearth of history especially unbelievable. Surely breast cancer isn't an excuse for loosing all insight. Still a very pleasant read that will make beer bellied honest husbands everywhere look good.
Rating: 4
Summary: Original Ideas, Intriguing Characters
Comment: Mrs. Kimble is full of intrigue and originality. We are able to witness the same man, a man who is best described as uncommon, through the eyes of each of his three wives. Collectively, they make up most of his adult life. Each of the women are complex within themselves and their situations and hopefulness ignite compassion in the reader throughout. I agree that some of the circumstances were a little too unbelievable in the real world. Sometimes, it is very hard to believe why the characters seem to do what they do, and Jennifer Haigh never really seems to explain why either. Nonetheless, it is an interesting read if you have already read the phenomenal books of today. You might want to first spend your money on a book called Lucky Monkeys In The Sky by a fairly unknown author named Michele Geraldi. I tell everyone that it is the best novel I have read in at least a decade, and I still don't seem to hear much about it. Believe me, it is a very very compelling novel. When you are done with that novel (probably after reading it ten times like I did) then I would move on to novels like Mrs. Kimble. It is a good book to resort to, but not really a book that will change you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Engrossing despite flaws
Comment: I read this novel in one day....just couldn't put it down.When I'd finished it, I realized that though I enjoyed it very much, the novel was full of holes. Parts of the plot didn't hold up too well, and the reasons Mr. Kimble was such a cipher was never explained at all. Also, if he was so shallow, so indifferent to the needs of others, how did he attract someone as savvy and intelligent as his second wife Joan?
We know little about him except that he could be all things to all women for as long as it suited his fancy. He was the ultimate smarmy opportunist but I never bought the parts of the book describing his closets, drawers and desk, utterly devoid of personal items of any sort. However dramatic the description, everyone keeps at least one thing of personal value, even if it's only a sled named Rosebud.
The other characters caught my imagination and my sympathy. I knew the book truly engaged me when I found myself at the end, hoping for a happier life in the future for Jody and Charlie.
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060740450 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan ISBN: 0670032069 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Family History by Dani Shapiro ISBN: 0375415475 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty ISBN: 1401300316 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer ISBN: 0684869403 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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