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Title: The Handyman: A Novel by Carolyn See, Jonathan Marosz ISBN: 0-7366-4689-2 Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.49 (74 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book I've read in a long time
Comment: and I read 4-6 books a week. Too many recently-published, well-written books have depressing plotlines that leave one feeling hopeless about humanity. This book is the opposite. The well-crafted paragraphs give interesting insights into the nature of the creative process, in the context of a compelling story that is hard to put down. And, when it was over, I felt happy and sated. As I result, I was deeply puzzled by some of the vituperative Amazon reviews, and can only conclude they were primarily written by a single person with some kind of personal grudge against the author. It is ironic that a book celebrating the power of an individual to positively effect the lives of others is the subject of such unpleasant anonymous attacks. This is a very good book, and I highly recommend it.
Rating: 1
Summary: 1 star is far too kind
Comment: Reading this, I felt my mind congealing into a turd. (No digestion necessary!) A TV dinner for the mind--"meat" of unnatural shape and texture (I guess it's meat; I mean, it kinda looks like meat), token vegetables, and laden with sodium-rich artifical flavorings.
I literally threw this manuscript across the room, effectively ending my stint as a literary scout. It is crap on so many levels--the "plot," the amatuerish and utterly trite crypto-Christo symbology. Jesus! Imagine my surprise--nay, horror--a year or so later, to see this trash win some critical acclaim. Complete madness.
Comte was onto something with his "mental hygiene" hangup. I'd have my eyes seared with hot pokers before reading something like this again.
Oh. And how wonderful to see the author on the MFA/ writing workshop circuit. Behold the future!
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Little Book
Comment: Interesting book with an enjoyable, though at times somewhat unbelievable and sort of disturbing, plot. Brings up a lot of ideas about the randomness of life, how fate brings people together for unknown reasons, and how we effect each other in very significant ways possibly without ever even knowing it. I found the ending of the book particularly odd and unexplainable. Without giving anything away, I was stumped as to why the main character chose who he chose. (Another friend of mine had the exact same complaint actually.) I never felt I really understood Bob Hampton. Overall though, a pretty fun read.
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Title: Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America by Carolyn See ISBN: 0520204824 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Golden Days (California Fiction) by Carolyn See ISBN: 0520206738 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See ISBN: 067946316X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ISBN: 0671035703 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal ISBN: 0156904586 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 27 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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