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Summary: A Must Read- The Best!
Review: Ms McMillan's latest book touched my heart, my soul and my spirit - and what a surprise ending! I have never cried this much from reading a novel- I cried at work and finished it on the subway. The author makes you a part of the Price family and you really get to know, to love and care about these characters.I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Telling it like it is!
Review: Viola Price is the Mother of the Century. She's strong, she uses profanity, but her children know she's only trying to get their attention in their language, she's strong and she knows their every thought. Children don't realize that mothers are like that until middle age and their own children are grown. I love the way she let Cecil go after realizing that she just wasn't stone crazy about him anymore, like she was at the beginning of their relationship. I like the way she realized that the change of life can mean a new life if you just accept the change for what it is and realize that some good can come of it. The best part was when her children and Cecil realized that Viola was still a huge part of their lives and her memory lives on and so will her love for them.
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Summary: Blown Away
Review: I have been reading since the age of 5, I am 35, bar none this is the best book I have ever read in my life. It was hard for me to finish reading the last 110 pages because I was crying so much about Viola. What great character development, I felt like I knew everyone in the book personally and was pulling for each individual in the book. I have read everything Terry writes as well as many other authors and this book of real life characters was overwhelmingly emotional. Thank you
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Summary: A Day Late and A Dollar Short, But It's On Time!
Review: Anytime I take a book with small print and this size and read it in two days, I know that I have been taken over by the author! I positively loved this book. I laughed...I cried. When I first opened the book and began reading, it was (at first) irritating that the person speaking changed for each chapter. But, Oh Baby, how quickly I adjusted and looked forward to: "who will be speaking this chapter?" As I finished the last chapter, I went online and ordered a copy for my mother. I must KEEP this book on my shelf to read again--highly enjoyable. I'm already wondering what it will be like as a movie!
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Summary: A page turner
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. I helped me to arrive at three realizations one--I really enjoy Ms. McMillan's style of writing. Her characters leap from the pages. Two, my life challenges are not as bad as I thought and I would not trade them with anyone else and three, one needs to take time to realize what's really important before it is too late. Now, I was a little put off by the male characterizations. They were all so pathetic. That seems to be a recurring theme in Ms. McMillan's books, which I can not appreciate, but all in all. I found myself not being able to put the book down.
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Summary: Breath Taking
Review: This book will have you laughing, crying and thinking all in one sentence. The story it self is so real and easy to relate to. Excellent job Ms. McMillan
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Summary: Pop pabulum; superficial affected pretentious baloney!
Review: OH PLEASE spare America from any further Oprah platitudes and her bad taste in authors! I was stuck on a long flight with nothing to read but this borrowed book. It stirred sheer amazement in me. In fact--I laughed all the way through this sorry, condescending excuse for a novel. This author is the ultimate Afro-American queen culture goddess PHONY pretender and is surely laughing at all her readers-- all the way to the bank. Not even a 1 star. Superb for the bottom of the bird cage.
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Summary: Venturing away from the norm
Review: Terry McMillan is renowned for her witty yet prolific ways of telling the modern African American love story with its ups and downs. I enjoyed this book immensely because she strayed away from this pattern of writing that has made her so popular. Because she is such a great writer, her readers will follow. This story (as her books in the past have done)is told from many different points of view which makes it strike everyone who reads it. Every reader will be able to relate to the story line of the book. Ms. McMillan totally captivates her audience and draws you into the world of the characters of her book. You will begin to develop feelings for the characters as if they are friends that you have known for years. This takes tremendous talent and Ms. McMillan should be commended, once again. Enjoy.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I didnt realized how much I missed Terry's writing especially since I didn't like "stella" the book, but loved the movie. This was a good read that caught me from page one...and took me through page 432....I really enjoyed it!
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Summary: Terry's coming up short...
Review: In an ode to "Soul Food", Terry McMillan's new novel depicts a strong willed, highly opinionated mother of four, Viola and her rocky relationship with her adult children and estranged husband. Paris the oldest is an accomplished caterer, but her love life has been nil since she stops taking care of her manipulative ex- husband. Charlotte is overworked and isolated in Chicago- and has the most strained relationship with everyone where each conversation ends with her hanging up mid conversation in anger. Lewis is the intelligent only son, who bumbles through life drinking away his love sorrows, and arthritic pain. Janelle is the youngest sibling with little direction, a loveless marriage, and a severely emotionally damaged daughter. Cecil is Viola's husbnad who feels unwanted and unloved, and seeks solitute in the arms of a much younger woman..... Within these pages, there are joyous family reunions, and heartbreaking disappointments that are all too familiar. Although Terry still writes with her usual wit and insightfulness the concept falls short on creativity in lieu of other popular family style books like De Berry & Grant's "Far from the Tree" or Kim Loby's "Here and Now". The biggest difference is that with the other books- the women and men are on equal footing, where in "A Dollar Short" the men are cheaters, abusers, jailbirds, alcoholics, gamblers, and constantly chasing tail. Her depiction of men as merely unfashionable accessories that become broken and outdated for women is overwhelming, and weighs down the story. I gave this book three stars because I truly enjoy Terry's writing, but the male bashing has to stop!
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