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Summary: Interesting story...
Review: "I was Amelia Earhart" is an interesting, and original story. Mendelsohn does a wonderful job of fictionalizing Earhart's journey in a way that no one has thought of. Therefore, it gives the readers a new dimension for imagination and dream of this famous pilot. The only downside to this story is the fact that everything happened TOO coincidentally. What is the odd that 2 people will survive a plane crash that happened thousands of feet in the air, providing the fact that the technology of airplane manufacturing was not that great in the 30's?
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Summary: Magical!
Review: Although the story in this book was rather cliched and non-original I still thoroughly enjoyed the book. I read it on the beach which, I believe, is the perfect setting in which to read it. I felt like I was on the island with Amelia. The writing was absoloutely phenomonal. It was very light, airy and conveyed in its vocabulary the fantasy that it was. A great, relaxing, short read for your next day at the beach...or on a deserted island...whichever comes first
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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: a reader
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: 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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Summary: Just plain bad
Review: Mendelsohn's book picks up where the known facts of Earhart leave off, answering the question of "just what happened to Noonan and Earhart after they left for Howland Island?" The plot line is razor thin, the writing style is straight out of a Harlequin romance novel, and the characters are cardboard cut-outs of real human beings. The book was bad. Really bad. Think "Blue Lagoon" meets "Gilligan's Isle" as a trashy dime-store novella, and you have a feel for the story. The only positive thing I can think to say about this horrible little book is that it is mercifully short.
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Summary: I Was Amelia Earhart
Review: Surely one wonders of the whereabouts of Amelia Earhart after her aircraft disappeared several decades ago. If one is curious about her life, read one of the biographies; If one is open to intrigue by fictional possibilities, Ms. Mendelsohn deserves an A+ for originality. Themes such as illusion and reality, the eternity of the soul, flirtation with death, escapism, living in the moment, and Eden, are blended with romance, surrealiwm and exquisite visuals. I Was Amelia Earhart is an intriguing contemporay novel and I look foward to more from this author.
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Summary: Interesting Point of View
Review: This book gave an interesting point of view on the life, last days, and supposed death of Amelia Earhart. The author's use of descriptive phrases really add a lot to the various settings and scenes that take place in the book. It was a little hard to get into at first because the narrator jumps around from time to time and person to person. Once I got into the book I found that it was a pretty fast as well as fascinating read. All in all, I really enjoyed it and it made me want to find out more about the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
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Summary: Interesting Point of View
Review: This book gave an interesting point of view on the life, last days, and supposed death of Amelia Earhart. The author's use of descriptive phrases really add a lot to the various settings and scenes that take place in the book. It was a little hard to get into at first because the narrator jumps around from time to time and person to person. Once I got into the book I found that it was a pretty fast as well as fascinating read. All in all, I really enjoyed it and it made me want to find out more about the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
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Summary: Elegant, lyrical prose
Review: This book is all about creating beautiful, dream-like images. When I first started it, I was annoyed by the shifts between first and third persons. When I returned to it I was in a quiet place at a quiet time. I was able to focus uninterruptedly upon the language and images. It was then that the full force of the book revealed itself. If you stand back and evaluate the plot alone it seems implausible and a little silly. But within the dream world Mendelsohn creates Amelia's thoughts are enlightening. When I finished it I turned back to page one and began reading it out loud. It was as if I experienced rather than read this story.
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