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Summary: Complete trash, poorly written, torrid junk
Review: I bought this book with the great expectation of a good read on Amelia Earhart. What I got was a torrid Blue Lagoon romance without any notion of reality or history. The writing was typical of the stuff that pours from the fanciful pens of young girls' and ends up in dairies. Do not waste your money of this terrible waste of trees.
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Summary: Moving, inspiring, and very funny
Review: I came to this book full of the skepticism of someone who is sick of the media's deciding 'this is the book,' or 'this is the movie of the year.' What a surprise, therefore, to find that this book is not as good as they said -- it's BETTER. A compelling hybrid of Hemingway, Garcia Marquez, and Virgina Woolf, Mendelsohn really does deserve the praise she earned for this book -- and more. The mainstream press seems to have picked up on the Don Imus aspect of the success of the book -- and ignored the fact that it's beautifully, and brilliantly, written. And almost no one picked up on the book's exquisite irony, its dry wit, its utterly deadpan sense of humor. A really invigorating read, it makes me want to go back to college to take a course and discuss it further. It's that good. Of course the book's success may actually have hurt it in some ways (as some of the almost spiteful comments here indicate), made people fail to see the book on its own merits, but I have a feeling that her next book will more clearly establish Mendelsohn for what she is -- the writer of her generation -- and show that she is anything but a 'one-hit wonder.'
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Summary: Doesn't merit the best seller list-Hidden Latitudes is beter
Review: I find it unfortunate that the book world focus's more on quantity than quality. This book competed with Hidden Latitudes, also a story about Amelia Earhart, that has a much better story line, and is very well written. Mendelsohns book, however, is very factual and dry, and shows very little of the vision that is required in good literature. Lucky for Mendelsohn, some big shot on the radio reccommended the book, and so she made it on the bestseller list. so yay for Jane, she hit a lottery ticket, whereas Alison Anderson's good novel was overlooked, and given reviews of "Another Earhart novel." When Knopf realized that Anderson's book would soon be in print, it upped the printing date for Mendelsohn...what a sleazy thing to do. It disgusts me that talent is so infrequently recognized these days, and we just devour whats in the consumer market.
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Summary: a reader
Review: I had been meaning to read this book for quite a while and finally got around to it while on vacation. I was eager to read others' thoughts ... although I am in no way religious, I found myself fascinated by what I took to be Mendelsohn's vivid exploration of purgatory, heaven and hell, using Earhart and Noonan as her literary vehicles. I was surprised to see that no one else picked up on this and instead mainly focused on the media hype surrounding the book. Talk about boring!
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Summary: Interesting story....
Review: I like the beginning, it is very captivating... it is as if she is talking directly to me from after life... or I am dreaming about meeting her in the Heaven, and she is telling the story of the last day of her life.... For that, I think the switching back and forth between first and third person works for me. It gives the illusive feels to the story. The idea of the story is interesting. Amelia Earhart's life after the crash is more alive than the one she lived before. I think the author established that in the first page of the book "...What I know is that the life I lived since I died feels more real to me than the one I lived before..." Her life before that, she was trap in a marriage without love; a union of business instead of love. All her life she has wanted to fly, to fly away from life...her wishes seems to be granted when she crashed onto the isolated island. She is living her life. And most of all, she may be in love for the first time... In this novel, her life may have just begun when the rest of the world think it has ended. In my opinion, part 1 is beautifully written; however in part 2 the writing and the structure turn flat, like diary entries that are written quickly just to jot down the events, so that you'll remembered in the future. I find myself flip through the pages impatiently want to get to the end.
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Summary: Lovely in prose, but dull in content
Review: I was anxious to read this book. It had been given rave reviews when it debuted and I was postitive that I would like it. Wrong, I will admit I was wrong! I found it dull and tedious. It seemed to repeat itself and the twists in the story appeared calculated by the author. I could almost hear her saying "Let's make it go this way now." The book is a quick read and the author's use of language at times is lovely, but those are the only positive comments I can make concerning this boring book.
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Summary: For success, write about and be endorsed by a celebrity
Review: If this book had been written about a non-celebrity and hadn't been endorsed by Don Imus, it would have gone nowhere. Yes, it's full of visual description, but after hearing the author read two chapters at a local bookstore, I'm tempted to conclude that's ALL it's full of. Two full chapters with no dramatic movement, no personal interaction‹except on a superficial level. How could it be possible to write and publish a book about such a dramatic sequence of events and have it emerge drama-free
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Summary: An enjoable escape into the fantasy of Amelia Areheart's
Review: It is doubtful that anyone will ever know what actually happened to Amelia Areheart, so I thoroughly enjoyed this little novel. The author has presented ways that the aviator and her navigator survive on a remote island after her plane goes down. According to the author, Ms. Areheart, attempts to repair her plane, then abondons that idea for surviving, and eventually, thriving peacefully on a "lost" island. An enjoyab;e, fantasy account of what may have happened to a remarkable man. about how one woman
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Summary: A delightful read.
Review: Jane Mendelsohn's little novel soars. The writing is like a bouquet of flowers that blossoms one bud at a time. I thoroughly enjoyed this very inventive tale. Made me wonder what really happened to Amelia
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Summary: Poetic
Review: Lyrical and imaginative, this is an extended poem to nature, flying and love itself. I think it's important to look beyond the elements that seem to be cliches to see how Mendelsohn uses them and how she keeps the reader questioning what is objective and what is subjective. This is not a Harlequin romance.
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