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Title: Gone for Good by Mark Childress ISBN: 0-345-41453-5 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Fun to read but seems to get fragmented toward the end.
Comment: After reading Crazy in Alabama, I discovered this book and was looking forward to another fun read by Mark Childress. It is a quirky stretch of fantasy and imagination and you get into it pretty fast. I enjoyed the discovery of new celebrity residents of the mysterious island, and seeing some of the theories about the death and disappearance of these people put down on paper in an almost believable form, but about 2/3 of the way through I found myself skipping pages. You could say it's a page turner, but not for the right reasons. I just wanted to get ON with it. The only character I really cared about much at all was Ben Junior. I wanted him to find his dad.
It got fragmented, a bit garbled and almost too crazy for me toward the end. It was almost a feeling that Childress had laid out this wide expanse of story but didn't quite know what to do with it after awhile. It was good to see Ben Willis discover his soul, so to speak, finding what was really important in life after all the craziness. But bottom line, I got a little tired of the whole thing before it was over and was a bit disappointed.
Rating: 2
Summary: As magical as a magician at a 5 year olds birthday party
Comment: This book had the makings of being great, but turned into a fragmented disassociative bit of nonsense. It is a shame too, because if anyone should have been able to pull off "magic", Mark Childress should have. A real disappointment.
Rating: 3
Summary: Started out as a five star book
Comment: It was funny, shocking, and fun to read. Then it took what was supposed to be a serious turn and the book went down hill from there. Mark Childress is great at quirky humor. I wish he would stick to it.
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Title: Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress ISBN: 0345389247 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Tender by Mark Childress ISBN: 0345419030 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Crazy Ladies : A Novel by Michael Lee West ISBN: 0060977744 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik ISBN: 0804114609 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 28 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A World Made of Fire by Mark Childress ISBN: 0345324668 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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