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Summary: Very Interesting!
Review: Very interesting read. I cannot put it down!
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Summary: wonderful story
Review: I am writing this in response to the woman who said she was dissapointed in how far the story deviated from the Bible's account. It is true that it is very different, but it is a novel based on about one paragraph in the Bible. You should read this book as an unique story about culture in biblical times not as an expansion on a Bible story. I loved reading about how women lived thousands of years ago though I agree that it was slightly irritating that Jacob is portrayed as kind of a jerk and his son's as demons.
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Summary: Exceptional read - read in one afternoon
Review: I read through this in the space of an afternoon and evening. The story is very compelling and offers a logical insight as to what could have happened. The vibrant richness of the tale makes a world that has long been forgotten seem real again. After I read it I had to reread the passage in the Bible. I was glad that Dinah finally regained her voice through the delightful prose of this exquisite novel.
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Summary: Wish we still had such a celebration of womanhood!
Review: Where is that Red Tent, anyway:) I enjoyed this book so much that it is hard to put into words. There is just so much here, but I think that most of all, I enjoyed the celebration of womanhood. How nice it would be to treat our daughters and ourselves the way these women did. I enjoyed the characters and the story, and the biblical lessons. I have passed in on to my 18 year old daughter, and I hope she passes it on also. A great read about life, women, even God. I reccomend this book highly to every woman! Debbi
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Summary: A Tribute to Women of All Generations
Review: I couldn't put it down...When I finished, I went out and bought 5 more copies for family and friends. Red Tent made me proud to be a woman. Read it and be empowered!
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Summary: Most disappointing book of the year
Review: This book was suggested to me by a close friend who had read good reviews in the Atlanta paper. Because of the biblical nature, it was hoped to be our next bible study resource. I found this book to be high on emotion and low on content. Biblical reference is slight to nonexsistent. The idea for the story is wonderful but I was greatly disappointed.
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Summary: Not Just For Women
Review: This is a fantastic book that I'm sure is being overlooked by alot of men based on the subject matter. It's their loss, because it's great. Being familiar with the Joseph and his coat of many colors story, I found this story of his sister Dinah immediately engrossing and hard to put down. Getting lost in the world that Anita Diamant re-creates reminded me in tone of "Memoirs of a Geisha." And if you liked that book, you'll probably respond to this as well. Ladies, do your literature loving boyfriends, husbands, and companions a favor and give them this book after you've read it yourself.
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Summary: Good, but historically inacurate
Review: this book had many good ideas, but some of the information is completely inaccurate. This book has the ideas, but the author should have known which son belonged to which mother before writing the book! Otherwise, the book was pretty good, and it expresses what ancient womanhood must have been like.
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Summary: making a minor story come alive
Review: ....in the bible, jacob is portrayed as anything but an honorable man. he is protrayed as a schemer, a coniver and very self-centered. the fact that dinah in this book wears rose-colored glasses is understandable - the man is her father. this book is not exactly anti-male, but neither are men portrayed in an admirable light. laban is a con artist who is out-conned by a better con artist - jacob. his sons, including joseph, are extremely self-centered (read the genesis they come off pretty badly). you rarely hear about the women and that is the point of the red tent. it gives us a glimpse into the lives of these women. life in those days was hard. women (and men) grew up very fast and childhood and adolescence were not an indulgement, merely a stage to get thru until one became a productive adult. .... this book takes a very minor story and makes it breathe life. if anything it describes the day-to-day, month-to-month, year-to-year cycles of life. everyday was a struggle for survival. food had to be cooked, clothes made (and i mean from scratch) children tended to, flocks tended etc. i was glued to this book until about the last 100 pages. after the [invasion] of dinah and the murder of shechem, the story want downhill and i had to force myself to finish it. i wish instead dinah had stuck around (the bible gives us no clue what happened to her - so at that point fiction really kicks in) and give us her take on joseph's dreams and his brothers selling him into slavery, rubean's treachery w/ bilhah, er and on and judah's bieng ensnared by his own lust w/ tamar etc. while diamont does take some events out of their biblical order (jacob wrestled w/ the angel before not after he served laban) she does refer back to many familiar stories ....jacob was a very self-serving man who didn't care that his sons massacred an entire town - he was only concerned w/ the way that it would impact his reputation and fortunes. read the original....its a pretty good read too !!!!
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Summary: Can't stop thinking about it
Review: At first I just kept thinking that this was going to just tell a story -- but it was much more than that, it evoked emotions from the recesses of yourself that you never knew existed. The intriguing tale of all the women and the hardships (both physically and mentally) that they went through was well written. I have to admit that when I finished the book I thought it was "okay" -- then I just couldn't stop thinking about everything that happened and it made me like it more and more. Definitely both a learning experience of the historical past and an emotional experience through the characters.
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