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Title: Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris, Frances Cassidy ISBN: 0-7366-3743-5 Publisher: Books on Tape Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (236 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Solid Read
Comment: I am baffled by the bad reviews I've read for this book. I have read many of the Oprah books, and this is the first one that felt like true literature and not a Harlequin romance. Yes, it is long. Yes, it can be depressing. Yes, it can be graphic. But so can life! Get over yourselves, people!
The characters were so real and clearly defined that, at various points in the book, I loved and hated them all. They had real problems and afflictions that were accurately portrayed by the author. Sometimes they made good choices and sometimes they made bad ones -- no one was a victim. I had to keep reminding myself that the story took place in Vermont, because I felt this book belonged in the Southern Lit course I took in college.
If you want a "happily ever after" book where nothing bad happens to anyone, this is not the book for you. If you want a story where complex characters experience the consequences -- both good and bad -- of their choices, then buy this book. I found it engrossing and hard to put down.
Rating: 2
Summary: Could have been 300 pages shorter...
Comment: I really trust Oprah's taste in books but I think she sorely missed on this one. (Badly enough that I'm taking time warn others in this review). I felt as if I'd read this story in some other grade B book or movie along the way. I plugged along right until the book's end, hoping it would get better but it never did. It was very hard to feel any sympathy for Marie Fermoyle who was simply pathetic. The characters were exaggerated and cartoonish in their words and actions. I felt insulted by them. Save yourself 700+ pages of agony and read something (just about anything) else. I don't think there was one character in the book who was realistic enough to like. I was sorry I used so much time trying to get into it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Like Seeing the Skeletons Inside The Closets of Everyone
Comment: This was the first McGarry Morris book I've ever read and I have mixed feelings on it. The entire mood of the book was quite depressing. No happy endings here, no sir. I also found the behavior of many of the characters to be unbelievable, thereby causing the entire tale to lose credit. For instance, I found it amazing that, after commiting murder, con-man Omar Duvall chose to take up residence in the same town where he killed a man, and the rotting, putrid body still lies. I'm not a criminal myself, but if I commited such an act, I imagine I'd want to miles away from the scene of the crime!
Next, we have Marie Fermoyle and her three unusual children. I found it sad that she was so desperate for love, that she fell for the fat, slovenly Omar Duval in his one and only shabby suit and his see-through lies.
Overall, the entire cast of characters and their individual miseries interweave into an overall story that plays out rather well. Basket-case USA.
One thing that really stuck in my craw was Alice Fermoyle's treatment of Blue Mooney. Maybe because I've always been attracted to just such a guy, I thought she should have given Blue more of a chance. Oh well. That's my opinion.
If you want to read a book that has a multitude of characters and sub-plots, this is a good choice. But don't expect a happily ever after.
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Title: A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club (Paperback)) by Kaye Gibbons ISBN: 0375703063 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage ISBN: 038079487X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman, Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0425167313 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 06 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds ISBN: 0425162443 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons ISBN: 0375703055 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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