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Title: I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 0152003746 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 18 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56
Rating: 5
Summary: this book is simply powerful
Comment: I can't count the number of times I've read "I Had Seen Castles" since I first picked it up at age 14. For a confused adolescent or a pondering adult, the emotional tale of John Dante strikes a beautiful chord. The book is not long. But its simplicity and honest detail of conflict strikes one powerfully. As a teenager, Dante's remembrances of love, conflict and war introduced me to the ethically and emotionally complicated world of adulthood. His solemn tone makes real the cold realities of obligation and pain and regret. He tells of going to a war that his first love, Ginny, insists will destroy him and it turns out Ginny (a character I've been in love with since I first read the 30 or so small pages that describe her) is right. The story is without flair, and it sounds as if it was plainly spoken by a dejected old man. But the simple words strike the reader powerfully as Rylant taps into some truths about war and life that can bring early wisdom to sensitive youngsters.
Rating: 5
Summary: 97-page Wonder
Comment: Although the picture on the cover is of a soldier, this is far from a "traditional" war novel. While World War II is the turning point of the main character, John's, life, comparitively little of the book deals with John's life as a soldier. Instead, the book focuses on the period between Pearl Harbor (when John is 17), and when John turns 18 and can enlist. The author paints an excellent picure of John as a young man doing normal, ordinary things. He meets a girl (who is against the war), falls in love with her and makes plans of the future, when he is discharged. THe war, however, changes John forever; he is not changed because of a physical wound or anything similar, but in ways I think it's best to let Cynthia Rylant explain.
Have I given away too much of the story? I don't think so. Like "Romeo and Juliet," the joy in this book is not the suspense that comes with the unfolding of the plot, but rather the prose and feelings evoked by the author. Highly recomended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Michelle's Review
Comment: The book I Had Seen Castles is probably one of the best books i've ever read. The author definitely gave you a feelin that you were right there with the characters. This short novel is waht i will absolutely call good literature.
Cynthia Rylant was giving he inside message of the war. She made it feel like the main caharacter, John, took your hand and brought you through a journey of his life in the 1940's. How he grew up in Pittsburgh, to his first love, and to the war. This book may not be that long, but youn get very descriptives visions of the war. The main characters said while he was in war, " The pictures in Life may have shown suffereing and death to the people back home, but they never showed dismemberment." This book takes you farther than what you see in the news and books, it takes you to the point you get a chill down your spine.
When my friend gave me this bok, i thought it was going to be another boring war book, but i was way off. This is definately a book you never want to stop reading. The character seem so real and their emotions are so intense. You actually feel for the characters, thei pain, suffereing, and loss. I never would expect such a short novel would be this good. I would definately recomend this to anyone whoe wants to read a book that isn't too long, and tos oembody who never knew what war was beyond Life and Time magazine.
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Title: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 0440408652 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant, Mary Szilagyi ISBN: 0689714734 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 31 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds by Barry Moser, Cynthia Rylant ISBN: 015201893X Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant, Lauren Stringer ISBN: 0152024808 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant, S.D. Schindler ISBN: 0689712634 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 30 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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