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Title: The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan, Kate Forbes ISBN: 0-7927-2298-1 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another great book by Robert Morgan
Comment: I loved reading Gap Creek so when I saw The Truest Pleasure on the shelf I decided to pick it up. Robert Morgan is an amazing writer and I truly enjoy reading his books.
Ginny and Tom were well written and very real characters. They fought a lot about Ginny's religious beliefs and Tom being a true workaholic but I never doubted for one minute that they were devoted to their marriage and that they loved each other. This marriage teaches us a great lesson, you never appreciate what you have until you lose it.
Through the vivid descriptions of Ginny and Tom's workload, this book has made me appreciate all of the modern conviences that we have today even more.
This book was well written and enjoyable. I would recommend this book as well as Gap Creek to anyone and I'm looking forward to reading more books by Robert Morgan.
Rating: 4
Summary: soul provoking
Comment: The Truest Pleasure is a wonderful story. Robert Morgan does not dissapoint! The strength of the main character, her dedication to her husband, her family and her faith is wonderful. Her ability to try and make all of these commitments come together, and the inner struggle she goes through to attain this is both heartwrenching and inspiring. The common occurence in the lives of these people, particularly illness and death and the manner in which they handle these as a basic element of life are very poignant. It is a story that can make you stop and think about what the truest pleasures in your life are, the things that satisfy both your heart and soul.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very Disappointing!
Comment: I went looking for more of Robert Morgan's works after I read 'Gap Creek,' which I thoroughly loved, and recently came upon this one. What a disappointment! Yes, this book has authentic mountain dialect in it and good prose, but not what I'd call 'outstanding.' And you do get a fairly detailed picture of life in hard times during the turn of the century in Appalachian North Carolina.
However, the book, while similar to 'Gap Greek' in its emphasis on hard work, differs enormously, I felt, in the plotting and storytelling. There is little suspense in this one (it's no page turner!) and many scenes often seemed more like little essays on various tasks and trials of that era. But often these scenes had no link to a story line--and the story line itself was much too simple for me, just no complexity. Also, I found the book very repetitive--it went over the same themes and disagreement between Tom and Ginny again and again, with little advancement of the story.
In addition, I didn't find the narrator, Ginny, likeable. I was often so frustrated with her I wanted to wring her neck! In 'Gap Creek,' on the other hand, the female narrator, Julie, is immensely sympathetically drawn and I was very caught up with her and her story. I did feel sorry for Tom, Ginny's husband, in this novel, but that's about as far as I was pulled into this book.
The ending that's supposed to be so heartwrenching, by the way, we already know about, thanks to the back cover of the edition I had, so it came as no surprise. But at that point, I was just glad to finish the book and had no more feeling for Ginny at the end of it then I did at the beginning.
I did learn that this is only Morgan's second novel, I believe, so maybe somewhere between this one and 'Gap Creek' he really honed his novel-writing skills! I'd highly recommend 'Gap Creek' over this title (unless you want to read it for period history and don't care so much about the storytelling/plotting), but I think highly enough of Morgan, despite this disappointing earlier book, that I'd still like to look up other later books of his--I just can't believe that 'Gap Creek' is the only really good novel he has in him!
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Title: This Rock: A Novel by Robert Morgan ISBN: 0743225791 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hinterlands: A Mountain Tale in Three Parts by Robert Morgan ISBN: 0895871785 Publisher: John F Blair Pub Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Blue Valley: A Collection Of Stories by Robert Morgan ISBN: 0743204220 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan ISBN: 074322535X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Balm of Gilead Tree: New & Selected Stories by Robert Morgan ISBN: 0917788737 Publisher: Gnomon Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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