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Title: Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0-553-29527-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (44 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book ever!
Comment: As I was browsing in a used bookstore one day, I was attracted to this book by the cover and the simple title. Over the past 10 years, I have gone back to this book again and again. I fall in love every time! The romance between Beauty and Giles is one of the most beautiful I have read anywhere. I am fascinated by time travel, fairy tales, and the struggle to discover identity, and Tepper skillfully weaves all these and more into a simply wonderful story. After reading this, I went out and looked for her other books, but the only one I would recommend beyond Beauty is "A Plague of Angels". My only caveat: some of Tepper's ideas are very liberal, but don't let that stop you from discovering this priceless book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost perfect!
Comment: I wasn't sure what to rate this, right now I am giving it a four, but I just might change my mind by the time I am done writing this. I can say that this was my second tepper book. The first was A Plague of Angels, and the only reason that I read Beauty was my friend promised me I would like it. I have to say that overall, Tepper has the gift to disturb her readers, well at least almost all her books disturb me. Beauty isn't any different. I was told that this was a book about Sleeping beauty who had a daughter who turned out to be cinderella whose daughter was snow white, etc. I thought it sounded like a fun book. Boy was I wrong. From the author's note to the last sentence, this book plunges you down into a deep (abyss?). It's not a "fun" read, rather, it's a very deep story. It definitely hits heavy on the environmentalist aspect, but it's also speaks about loosing "magic" (hope?) and all that is not just physically beautiful in the world, but spiritually for lack of a better word. While I loved this book and have reread it, I have to say that the two parts that I didn't like was the Chinanga part--I didn't particularly see the point of it, and also Giles character. What a shallow shallow hero. However, it is still a beautiful story and as depressing as it is, ends on a note of hope.
Oh, I guess to be fair, I agree with the person who said that Tepper uses religion to get out of situations. I guess I'll let the four stars stand after all. I still highly reccommend this book though
Rating: 4
Summary: A Fairy Tale With A Difference
Comment: Tepper's version of the "real life" events that inspired numerous fairy tales (Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc.) was certainly an interesting book, if ultimately anticlimactic. Tepper follows the title character, the half-fairy Beauty, through the events of her life as told by the main character herself through a journal.
I have to admit, I am finding writing this review a bit difficult. Beauty was an odd story. For about the first half of the book I didn't much care for the way Tepper had chosen to write this book...from the point of view of the journal. But then that grew on me and I could see that it had advantages...the point of view gave me, the reader, the best possible vantage point from which to best understand Beauty's rather disjointed life.
The worlds Tepper draws in this book are a bit lopsided. Some of them are drawn beautifully, while others lack much substance. Chinanga, especially, is wonderfully drawn...while the 14th and 15th centuries lack much depth -- with the possible exception of Westfaire. (There is an irony in all of this, but one that I cannot reveal for fear of giving too much of the book away.)
The characterizations in this book weren't the best. While I understood the overall motives of the characters; I found that the motives of individual events of many of the characters were somewhat unclear...especially towards the end (Carabosse in particular). The exception to this would be the main character, Beauty. At each step along the way I understood how she felt, and if I had been placed in her circumstances I would have reacted as she had, felt what she did. Beauty is the reason I'm giving this book four stars instead of three. She makes this book stand out more than it would have otherwise. An apt comparison might be an above-average performance in an only average film.
Tepper's Beauty is a rather poetic, if at times unidealistic, work of fiction. Though in the end, Tepper does manage to portray an overall sense of idealism in some of humanity, if not all. This book is recommended to those interested in unusual fairy tales, those with a penchant for Irish lore, or just those interested in a book that is a bit tough to sum up once one has turned the last page, read the last word.
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Title: The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0553280643 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791994 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Plague of Angels by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0553568736 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Awakeners: Northshore & Southshore by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0312890222 Publisher: Orb Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Six Moon Dance by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791986 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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