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Back to The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary:
If you need a depressant, read this book.
Comment:
I was so ready to love this book! I LOVE dogs and have had very strong, close relationships with 2.
I love Wisconsin and its northwoods. I have affection for the name Edgar, a village in Wisconsin.
And, yet, I would have to agree with most of the 1-star reviews. This book was a huge
disappointment!!
Customer Rating:
Summary:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Comment:
Well written, absorbing, very depressing. If you like happy endings, this book is not for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary:
Too much spice in the stew
Comment:
I must admit, this finely wrought, fastidiously stitched narrative has so much detailing that it
made me weep. I couldn't help but enjoy the finer encapsulations of the most minute detail--the
problem for me, though, all this detailing about this youngster, Edgar, and his rural family didn't
really seem to apply. (WAR & PEACE, this clearly is not). Is it any wonder that most of the readers
here feel let down after all that reading effort to what comes down to a rather deflating ending to
such a minutely etched story?
It really makes me wonder what the editors are doing on
the job. I honestly feel that this would've have been a better story if about 300 pages were cut
out. It seems that editors today are too shy to do their jobs. Beautiful prose notwithstanding. Too
many seasonings will overwhelm the flavorings in the stew. Has anyone ever heard of overkill? Page
for page, if this were a film, it would have been about five hours. An unheard of amount of time in
today's movies. And if so, it better be good. Right?
To be fair, this is hardly the
only over-wrought works of fiction out there today. We have an over-supply of 800 page
narratives.(Wally Lamb's latest.) And I don't have the time for them. For its alluring beauty in the
writing, though, I kept reading and reading this one. Conclusion? All that pretty prose got in the
way of what might have been a strong story. It really seems that less is more. (I--along with many
other readers-- wish editors would re-learn this one).
Customer Rating:
Summary:
Author abused my precious time
Comment:
I love to read but have very little time to devote to it. So, when I give my time to a book, I
choose carefully what to read and then expect the book to give me a nice payoff in the end. With
this book, there were all sorts of glowing reviews, I love dogs, and I thought I couldn't go wrong.
Initially, it paid me back beautifully. The author is a gifted descriptive writer, the characters
were interesting, and the plot seemed rich with possibility. Even when some passages droned on too
long (oh for a good editor here!), I stuck with it because I expected that final payoff based on the
good things I had read thus far.
Then, when I read the final page, I kept trying to
find the "remaining pages", the ones that would make sense of all that I had read, the ones that
would give the payoff. Because none of that happened in the final pages as written by the
author.
I went back and re-read the final chapters, hoping that I had missed something
that would suddenly shed the light that I had obviously missed, but nothing. Finally, out of
desperation, I searched for reviews of the book to see what it was that others found so intriguing
about the book. That was when I found the hundreds of people who said the same thing I felt about
the book. Too bad I didn't seek out the reviews before I believed the highly publicized good
reviews.
In the end, I feel like the author lured me on and then stuck his tongue out
at me in the last chapters. Shame on him for wasting my precious time in this way. I would like to
see other things that this author writes, but I will do a vast amount of research before I go to the
expense to buy the book and give up the time to read it.
Customer Rating:
Summary:
Lame Ending for an Otherwise Great read
Comment:
I was all set to give this book a 5 star rating, but the ending kept me from doing that. It just
took away from an otherwise great read.
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