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Title: A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0-440-97232-9 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 July, 1981 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.84 (179 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Ring of Endless Light
Comment: I read this book for the first time when I was only 14 or 15 years old and have reread it, and other L'Engle classics, many times since. Vicky is an inspirational young woman not because she's a heroine in the traditional sense: superhuman and all knowing, but rather because she's painfully and gloriously human. At times she is a typical teenage girl wrestling with issues about boys, school, family and growing up. At others she is mature and wise well beyond her years. The charachter of Vicky Austin is still a role model to me in my adulthood! A Ring of Endless Light, although seemingly about death, is really a celebration of life. Death, whether it be sudden, tragic and unexpected or the natural end to a long happy life, is celebrated as an integral part of life whether it be that of human, dolphin or sparrow. The lesson learned is to focus on the living, indeed, on the glass half full rather than half empty. Madeleine L'Engle's books have had a tremendous impact on my life and have taken a part in shaping the woman I've become. In this and many of her other books she has shown me how to glory my tribulations, for from tribulations comes patience, from patience, experience; and from experience, hope!
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: I don't believe that I've read many books as powerful as this one. All of Ms. L'Engle's books are amazing, but this one is my personal favorite. Vicky Austin, star of two previous books, has hit the hardest summer of her life. Her beloved grandfather, who is an absolutely amazing person, is dying of leukemia, and she has to come to terms with this. Enter three young men, all with their own experiences of death: Leo, whose father had died; Zachary, whose mother had died; and Adam from _The Arm of the Starfish_, who watched as someone he cared for was shot. Vicky hears their stories and has to come up with her own way to deal with dying. And this is only half of it. A previous reviewer didn't like the ending, but it was one of my favorite parts. The book as a whole is a testament to humanity's ability to see the whole of things, not one part. Like another previous reviewer, I would recommend this book to the 13-plus age group, rather than the fifth or sixth grade level the book has been given. One of the perfect pieces of children's literature.
Rating: 1
Summary: WARNING WARNING WARNING
Comment: DO NOT I repeat DO NOT read this book if you are NOT a girl under 16 years old. I am a 35 year old man and I read this book and thought it was a parody but it isn't. If you are some kind of sicko and like books marketed to the secret adolescent sensuality of girls in the school of things like unicorns and horses, then buy all means, read this book and then seek professional help. Otherwise take my advice and stay far far away.
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Title: Moon by Night by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440957761 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 044095777X Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Young Unicorns by MADELEINE L'ENGLE ISBN: 0440999197 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440219507 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440901839 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 December, 1979 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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