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Summary: Too close to the truth!
Review: One day I wanted to research the famous Plague. I was so interested in it that my mother recommended this book, Forever Amber. After the first page, I couldn't put the book down and read the whole thing within a week and a half. What amazed me so much was the extraordinary historical time line the book followed. The book tells us of the different social experiences that happened in Restoration England, which is good entertainment, but also very true. Even the picture on the paperback book portrayed King Charles II as he really looked. Did you know that King Charles II had four sons named after him? Why would a person need History class when there is Forever Amber? As a 16 year old female, I believe that people of all ages should give this book a chance. You might learn something you didn't know before.
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Summary: One of the best books I read as a teen
Review: "Forever Amber" is a book that I read as a relatively young child and just recently read it again. Every page is entertaining, so the length should not discourage anybody. This story follows a country girl as she runs away to England to be with a man she is obsessed with throughout the entire novel. We not only follow her life but also the life of England at the time. Her experience during the Plague is definately one of the most gruesome yet entertaining parts of the novel. It is a book that everyone should read and won't forget as soon as they're done!
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Summary: Great light reading (if 700+ pages can be called "light")
Review: I'm not generally a big fan of romance novels, but I got this book because I remembered seeing part of the movie on TV years ago (made in the '40s, starring Linda Darnell and Cornell Wilde).This is basically "Gone With the Wind" set in Restoration England. That's not a knock--it's very entertaining and its length shouldn't keep anyone from reading it. It flies right by. You also learn a lot about the Restoration Era. The movie (which was meant as an answer to "Gone With the Wind") was pretty good but didn't do the book justice, especially with the abrupt ending. The novel's ending is much better. OK, it's not great literature, but the BBC should make a mini-series out of this one. They'd do a great job, and wouldn't have to tiptoe around the more risque subject matter like the 1940s movie version did (although that was surprisingly frank for its time).
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Summary: A book to pass through the generations... keep it forever.
Review: I was drawn to this book which nestled amongst hundreds of others in an old book shop in Sussex, England. I was astounded when I read the first page and realised it was the book my mother loved but did not allow me to read. I relished every page but agree that I was possibly a little too young at the time being little more than 10 years of age.... Every young woman should read and enjoy it!
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Summary: No matter what year it is - a true lesson for women
Review: She was a country girl, then so naive, then a whore, yet thru it all, in her heart, she retained the dignity she believed she had, even when others denounced her. In her heart and soul, she was better than the mistakes or choices she made.
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Summary: Hardly a book for elementary school children.
Review: I can't believe this is listed as a book for second and third graders. This is an old romance novel better suited for historical study of the American novel. It is light, fun, old fashioned, and might be recreational reading for someone in their teens--if they are interested in this sort of thing. It is quaint by today's standards for popular fiction.
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Summary: Incredibly fun reading.
Review: Supposedly the first "Romantic novel" ever published, Forever Amber details a life of a 90's woman living in the 30's....she's just a tad ahead of her time. You will recognize current day New Yorker mentality in her because she knows what she wants and stops at nothing to get her man!! Makes for light fun reading.... and "sexual" scenes are hardly what we consider to be so nowadays. Fun for your teenage daughters to read...a love story without the steammmmmmm.
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Summary: Excellent example of once-banned historical fiction
Review: I remember hearing my mother and grandmother talking of the once-scandalous book, "Forever Amber." My curiousity compelled me to find it, read it and think about what made it "dangerous." Tame by today's standards, "Forever Amber" is an early feminist novel detailing the pains Amber takes to make it on her own in 1600's London. While the author makes use of many sexual references, they are novel because they told from an independent woman's perspective. Amber does what she wants, and gets it in a male-controlled world.
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Summary: Wildly Addictive
Review: A friend of mine recommended "Forever Amber" to me. I can honestly say that otherwise, I would not have read it. Thank God she did tell me about how amazing it was...this is NOT a story to be missed! I could not believe that this was written back in 1944...it felt so fresh and not at all old fashioned.
I thought that the authors writing style was brilliant. The book is mainly about the life of a girl called Amber St. Clare. The thing about Amber is that she is not easy to like..in fact..I was appalled by her often, but at the same time I found myself admiring her determination, rooting for her, and pitying her as well. The book goes on for 972 pages and at the end of it all I actually wanted MORE. The descriptions were so vivid that I felt like I could see, smell, TASTE London as it was in the 1660s. I am so happy to have experienced this tale. I plan to look for more of Kathleen Winsors work and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any lover of Historical Fiction.
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Summary: Don't Read This Book If You Like Fairytales and Fluff!!
Review: I read all the customer reviews on "Forever Amber" and was amazed at many of the readers' reactions regarding this novel. Many were disappointed with the "unsatisfying ending" and wishing that K. Winsor had written a sequel, i.e. "Amber in America". I read this book about 35 years ago and never forgot the mental banquet I feasted on while immersed in its historical pages and life of Amber. Kathleen Winsor was smart as a fox NOT TO WRITE A SEQUEL to "Forever Amber". We would all have loved (I think) to see Amber fair better, especially in matters of her heart (where Bruce Carlton was so hopelessly "enshrined"). Remember, readers, this is fiction. Winsor draws us in, effortlessly, honing our own hunger for "everything in its right place", and "all lived happily ever after". Amber's determination to win Bruce's heart for all time, and all the bitter disappointments that unrequited love brings to her is what makes ourselves, as we read, unable to put this book down. If you haven't read this book, do so. You have no idea of what you are missing!
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