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Summary: Continually Thought Provoking
Review: Despite the fact that five months have passed since I read Hegland's stirring novel, I can still smell the redwoods and pines, taste the acorns, feel the moisture from the forest floor. The characters and their apocalyptical world also remain vivid. The story altered my perspective about the way I live and galvanized me to make some serious changes in my life. I will read this book again for the enjoyment of its prose, though I doubt I will need to remind myself of the power if its message, which will continue to inspire and haunt me. What more could you ask from a novelist?
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Summary: It changed my life...
Review: It is a well written book, taught me and inspired me to write. I loved the characters, Eva and Nell, and I related to them, to their plight, to their love for each other. There is a time when one of the characters chooses her sister over her lover... If that isn't a superior form of loving someone, I do not know what that is.The book moved me deeply and made me think. Think about one's choices. I took a decision that has changed my life and I can't thank Jean Hegland enough for it. She made me a better person, a less selfish one - I hope. Please, buy the book if you haven't already and you'll cry, laugh and fall in love with Eva and Nell as I did.
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Summary: Beautiful language but otherwise a PC fairy tale
Review: Jean Hegland writes beautifully, which is all that kept me reading. Unfortunately, there is not much else to this book, a politically correct, thinly-veiled tribute to the "noble savage" and diatribe against the modern world. The story is farfetched: -All the calamities we worry about seem to happen at the same time: earthquakes, wars, nuclear power plant meltdowns, (was there a volcanic eruption somewhere too?). -Incest between the sisters -Burning down their home and fleeing into the forest for good. Not believable even as a post-apocalyptic tale.
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Summary: Fantastic, personal, and deeply moving
Review: I listened to this first as a book-on-tape, then read the text, and now have recommended it to so many of my friends. I have purchased and given away perhaps 10 copies. Without exception, it is trulyloved by all that have received it from me. I can not recommend ANY book more highly
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Summary: A tense and gripping story
Review: I chose the book for my book group this month on a recommendation from the owner of my favorite bookstore. I found it hard to read and hard to put down. The story grabbed me and brought me into the forest and filled me with fear when I thought of how I would react in this situation. I wanted to stop reading and not be in that place, yet I couldn't wait to read on. I think our group will have a great discussion when we meet. Read It!!!
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Summary: Indexers love the ending.
Review: "I had never read it, never done more than glance through its thousand pages, but suddenly I knew it was the third book I would take. I lifted it down, traced its title with my finger: Index: A-Z. ... I could not save all the stories, could not hope to preserve all the information ... [b]ut I could take the encyclopedia's index, could try to keep that master list of all that had once been made or told or understood."
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Summary: A wonderful book about love, hate,frienship.loyalty,and life
Review: I think that the book Into the forest was so good. I wish that every book I read was that good If only that book could have gone on forever. I was hooked to that book like a magnet on the refridgerator. Awesome!!
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Summary: Good Read
Review: I have an affinity for post-apocolyptic novels. This novel was surprising because it didn't deal with the subject matter in the more sensational way that I have been accustomed to in fiction. Basically, this is a story about two sisters who find themselves isolated and alone. Although this is a well written novel, I can't say that I liked the characters very much. I didn't relate to their desire for isolation or their complete ignorance of the outside world. It was obvious that the writer justified this by making the sisters home-schooled so that they had little contact with other children even before the collapse of America. That said, I would still recommend this novel and I appreciate the profound impact that it has had on other reviewers. But, if you're expecting a story that will give you the writer's view of post-apocolyptic America, this is not it. If you want a nice, simple story about two girls left to fend for themselves in a wilderness that they grew up in, but no nothing about, then this is worth reading.
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Summary: Stunning, provocative, disarming
Review: This is one of those rare books that still has me in its thrall days after completing it. Once begun, I could not put it down ; once finished, I can not stop thinking about it. I've recommended it to many already, and will be buying two additional hardcover editions - one for each of my daughters to read and keep when they are older. This is a must-read for anyone living in this country who continues to use, use, use without any thought to the impact on our environment and government.
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Summary: Beautiful Book
Review: The novel forces one to think about what would happen if America could no longer rely on modern conviences (such as electricity). Survival is all that would matter, yet somehow, the two main characters still cling desperately to their dreams until they realize that there are more important things to life. The only complaint I had with the book, is that the rape was a bit contrived and it seems Ms. Hegland only put it in to have a baby in the novel. What a shame. It makes it seem like women are victims of their biology.
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