Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Summary: Book for People with Big Brains
Review: The book P at Tc is a very complicated book. I do not suggest that you read it if you do not have time to think about life in general. The read is by far not easy at all. I do not suggest that anyone who is still trying to figure out who they are read it because the book is liable to confuse you even more. The book is good, however, I said earlier-it is an extremely hard read. our AP class read it and i know that my friends and I all stumbled through it.

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Summary: zzZZzZZzZZ
Review: Hello, i am a student from Mcminn County Highschool in Athens, TN, and we just read this book for our AP Junior English class, and I have to say I wasnt very into this book. Maybe if Annie Dillard tried to do something besides pointing out little details about insects and birds she may make an interesting paragraph that doesnt bore me to sleep. Sure, she may be a good writer, she uses very good writing techniques, but a book of nature is not my type of book i guess, maybe thats why i had a negative thought about it. If you enjoy reading about nature, I would recommend this book highly, if not stick to another author.

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Summary: Exhaustive and Mind-Numbing
Review: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a novel written by Annie Dillard, was not the most enjoyable piece of literature that I have ever read. The style and structure used by Dillard was advanced, and therefore a bit more challenging to read. This book compared to Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, although much more enjoyable. The story revolved around Tinker Creek, and every single organism that was in or around it. Dillard's similes and descriptions were nothing short of amazing. Her ever present telegraphic sentences seem to set the book off. The transiotions were better than most any author that I have read. However, I would not recommend this book to read unless you would like to punish your children with it.

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Summary: life
Review: Through out the book there was selection of detail, a lot of metaphors, and well a lot about nature. In all, the imagery was great. You could almost sense the air and feel the water. Smell the pine trees and see the bugs. But there was something more there than just word. There was power. There was feelings. There was life. The sounds were heard through the reading of the peoples voices. If you search hard enough you can look hard enough i believe that you can see the pictures inside the words. It can come to life.

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Summary: Pilgram at Tinker Creek
Review: I am a junior AP student in Athens, TN. After just finshing Annie Dillard's Pilgram at Tinker Creek, I am pleasently shocked. Dillard beautiflly writes of the horrors and joys of nature; this is done at times by compairing vastly different subjects. An example occurs on the first page of the book, "And some mornings I'd wake in daylight to find my body covered with paw prints in blood; I looked as though I'd been painted with roses." The comparison of blood and roses truly creates an interesting begining to her novel. Dillard continues the book with persise blends of humor, fact, and personal experience. Her religous allusions and scientific data keep the reader interpreting the book's worth and meaningon a personal level. Dillard has certainly written a book that is highly individual and a worthwhile, meaningful read.

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Summary: A Wildlife Fanatic
Review: Do you enjoy going to the zoo? Do you go, watch the animals behind the steel fence, and then go home satisfied, or do you go and wonder "Is this all there is to it?" If that question has frequently entered you mind, then I strongly suggest you read Annie Dillard's book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard is no doubt the world's most extreme naturalist. Any person who would sit inches away from a copperhead for any extended amount of time deserves to be called extreme. Through her book, Dillard opens up a whole new side of nature. She observes animals from mantises to muskrats. All the while she is consistently bombarding the reader with amazing trivia about all the animals she observes. This mind blowing trivia is most memorable from the chapter concerning parasites. Dillard definitely gives new meaning to the word "Chomp!" Even if nature isn't your thing, there is still something in this book for you. Dillard relates nature to man and. Her commentaries prove to be both intriguing and thought provoking. She has before been compared to the great naturalist writer Henry David Thourea. This comparison is utterly absurd. While Throuea's writing is dry and unentertaining, Dillard's is full of exciting encounters with the great outdoors. All in all, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is an enjoyable book. It offers a point of view that is not often seen in our modern lives today. If read with an open mind it has the ability to transform a person and how he views the world around him.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: There can be nothing but praise for Annie Dillard's insightful novel, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. As her title implies, Dillard comes to the creek searching for something. What she leaves with is her soul. Dillard learns from every little thing and explains herself beautifully. Her use of comparisons(similies, metaphors, etc.) adds a lovely color to the book that I found extremely lacking in a similar piece, Thorough's Walden, or Life in the Woods. Dillard's signature telegraphic sentences(Ex: "so.") help to make the reader feel more as if he/she is inside Dillard's mind as she writes. Not only does Dillard personify the creek as a lovely and beneolent teacher, she truly personifies it with temperament. The creek and its surrounding nature aren't always happy and beautiful. In the chapter, "Fecundity" she takes the via negativa and begins a complaint about the constant proliferation of insects, parasites, animals, etc. She also makes the observation that only animals and bugs are anathema to humans. One of the more striking similies was something as such: a field of daisies or poppies isn't nearly so threatening as a field full of rats or locusts. Annie Dillard has an engaging writing style and a discerning eye catching each detail that lead me to recommend this book highly to any nature lover and/or anyone searching for something. Tinker Creek is a wonderful place to find yourself.

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Summary: The Completion
Review: I find myself at the end of a multi-week long assignment, befuddled as to what I, a highschool AP III student, should write regarding Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Perhaps I should write the truth, plain and simple. So. The truth is I enjoyed Miss Dillards often perverse piece of literature. The combination of said perversity and her childlike innocense and humor makes this book an easier and more enjoyable read than, let's say, Walden. Where Thoreau's droning succeeds in boring me, Dillard's vivid imagery succeeds in holding me in rapt attention. Dillard has a gift for details. She can make you grimace in disgust with stories of water bugs sucking frogs, dead horses, and parasites but, she can also make you smile with her telling of childhood hide and seek games with pennies in Pittsburgh and her poetic recreation of do-nothing summer skies. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was assigned to my class, as was this review. Well, mission accomplished. Assignment completed. But, although I have reached the end of my Tinker Creek experience at school, I plan on revisiting this novel in my spare time, as I think others should.

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Summary: A student's humble opinion
Review: I am a junior in high school, and my AP English class was recently assigned to read Annie Dillard's, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. We had just completed another nature novel, humbly entitled, Walden: or Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau. To be fair, any book would have been interesting compared to Walden. However, I was pleasently surprised when we began Pilgrim. Annie Dillard has a style all her own. Nearly every chapter begins with a personal narrative, then moves smoothly into philisophical ponderings concerning nature, and finally comes back full circle as if to answer her personal quarry. She writes as a ballerina dances: with poise, grace, and boldness. Dillard's Tnker Creek may become, in the eyes of the reader, paradise. A favorite passage of mine can be found in the first chapter:"Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home." I encourage anyone with an inquistive mind to read this book. You will be fulfilled.

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Summary: A Book with Insight
Review: A gentle romantic novel twirled before your eyes. Annie Dillard stalks her reader as much as the predator stalks its game. This book had wonder and could be read during any season...it will transform your life. Each page offers a passage one person could possibly not hold within, it is something you must share with a friend. If you have a moment that you could escape the ever- demanding pressures of life take yourself and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to a place where you can mediate. It will surely revive your soul and the surroundings around you. This book will teach you how to feel again in such a cruel world.