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Title: Medicine River by Thomas King ISBN: 0-14-025474-9 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Insightful Look into the Complexities of Human Beings
Comment: This intricately woven novel is a modern masterpiece. Although I showed the movie (starring Graham Greene as Will) in my class this semester, most of my students clamored to read the book as well, and as a result got a fuller experience for having done so. King is able to say so very much about the nature of human beings while at the same time adds the touch of humor that seems to be so lacking in most modern novels with something to say. I have read this book at least five times, and have purchased more than six copies--I keep lending them to friends or giving them as gifts. Read Thomas King--a clear, welcome voice for the new millenium.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thankyou Staffordshire University!
Comment: This book is one of the reasons that I never regret going to university, and why I'd like to thank Dr Laura Peters for including it on her Canadian Literature Course. It's brilliance lies in the fact that on the one hand it is easy to read, enjoyable and light fiction; whilst on the other hand it is a complex novel of modernity, identity and history. Bring what you will to the novel, and take what you want from it - but you will come away from the book feeling better for the experience of reading it
Rating: 1
Summary: Choppy and thoroughly a waste of time.
Comment: The book "Medicine River" is awash with too many characters and no true plot on which to base the complexities that surround most of these characters. There is too much happening and not enough book to cover it, or enough words to explain it all, which makes the story come across as choppy and irrational. If someone is going to write a novel with over 30 characters, than please, write a trilogy - please don't jam a bunch of nonsensical blather into only 261 pages. Not to mention, many of the scenes leave you feeling as though you've missed something - the human and lifelike qualities that any developed characters should have in a novel. It leaves this book dull and devoid of any true feeling. Although there is a main insight into the book upon how a community can become family over a biological family that one may not possess, this book leaves you feeling like you really have read a fictitious novel, which I don't think was the intention the author had. Too bad.
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Title: Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King ISBN: 0553373684 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Truth and Bright Water: A Novel by Thomas King ISBN: 0802138403 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 07 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Dark River by Louis Owens ISBN: 0806132825 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Sharpest Sight: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies, Vol. 1) by Louis Owens ISBN: 0806125748 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.02 |
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Title:The Business of Fancydancing ASIN: B0000950WI Publisher: Wellspring Media, In Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.73 |
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