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Title: The Feast of Love : A Novel by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0-375-70910-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (129 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't be scared off by the title or the cover!
Comment: This book is amazing and a 2004 must read for both guys and gals! If you enjoyed movies like Short Cuts or 6 Degree's of Separation you will love this book and understand how it's laid out (i.e. separate characters - living separate lives - somehow connected). This book proved to me that ANY unique thought, personality trait, quirk/tick, phrase/snappy word selection, word choice, vision, day dream, fear, insecurity, issue, event, etc. that I thought was truly unique to ME and made me different from everyone else is/was a big farce. Charles Baxter was able to provide me with a 'grow up' wake up call - prove to me that there is nothing original nor unique about me or how I think or what I say or how I act, etc. My entire 'supposedly unique character/self' is smeared across every character (male and female) in this book. All men over the age of 30 should be required to read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Makes you feel "starspattered"
Comment: Before I read the above reviews I knew luminous was a key descriptive word. I was afraid that the book would read choppily because of all the characters' points of view but the uniting force in this novel is radiant love. We never even see the writer, Charles Baxter, who several times walks past a mirror that no longer refelcts. He is the medium that channels these wonderful people. There is parental love, erotic love, love of knowledge and divine love. All of it shines as brightly as the painting described in the book (and later seen at the wedding). It is a Midsummer's Night Dream told by an insomniac who feels "emptied out" by the end of the book. It has the abililty of expressing profound truths in simple ways. "I had smashed my life with a hammer" one character states, but later through redemptive love he also is able to say "Whatever I was that was apparently what she wanted." It is a celebration of love and being human. I loved this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely perfect in every way
Comment: This may be my favorite book that I have ever read. It is absolute magic. Plot is secondary. This story, instead, is an exploration into different kinds of love. It twists and meanders without a clear destination, much like love itself. Along the way, we meet slightly otherworldly characters. Most of all, we get to listen to Baxter write. And he can WRITE! Reading this novel is like reading the most beautiful poetry by Frost and Yeats put into prose form. The words alone would be almost enough, but the words combined with the wonderful stories will simply take your breath away.
I found something to identify with in each and every one of the characters in this book. Some characters I actually fell in love with--Chloe and Oscar, with their perfect, intense love; Bradley, with his immutable optimism and his desire to help his lover in every possible way; the Ginsburgs and their perpetual, unconditional love for their children; Bradley's dog, Bradley, who perfectly illustrates why people have pets (or why pets have people).
Some characters are certainly less magical, like Diana and the Bat. But they do not qualify as villains. They have a place in this novel, and it is not to be a mere foil to the types of love depicted by Chloe, Oscar, the Bradleys and the Ginsburgs.
I really cannot heap enough praise on this masterpiece. I have plans to reread The Feast of Love forthwith.
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Title: Saul and Patsy : A Novel by CHARLES BAXTER ISBN: 0375410295 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: First Light (Contemporary American Fiction) by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0140100911 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Believers : A novella and stories by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0679776532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Shadow Play: A Novel by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0393322742 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Relative Stranger: Stories by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0393322203 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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