Poppy

Way beyond obscenity

Revisado: 06-04-19

I wish I had not taken so long to enjoy this book. It’s a masterpiece. For Lawrence to have written this story, he had to have live a life of deep feeling and willingness to risk heartache and being ostracized. Come to think of it, he did live such a life.

He puts into words what so few people ever come to experience of life. He intricately interweaves so many complex themes that are at the bottom of human nature. Although written nearly 100 years ago, except for references to transportation, clothing, other externalities, the book could have been written last week.

At times, Lawrence is a bit too flowery and repetitive, and rather than having positive literary effect, the bloom-y words and repeats become boring, but not at all to a great extent.

Definitely a worthwhile read if you crave literature with deep emotion and meaning.

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Was not as good as expected

Revisado: 05-24-19

I really had higher expectations of this work. The stories are somewhat engaging, but I found myself confused more than once by the intro and opening paragraphs of these. The opening would start developing a character and even set the scene to introduce a conflict, then the character would just disappear and not even be mentioned again. Most of the stories felt, on the whole, like snippets of an undeveloped novel with no real beginning or ending.

I did not like the narration. The readers sounded stilted and annunciated so precisely as to sound unnatural. I found it quite distracting to the point of having to rewind frequently to catch what I had missed.

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Wyeth's Vision Comes to Life

Revisado: 03-04-17

I've admired A Wyeth's work since I can remember. Often, I have gazed on "Christina's World" and been drawn into the house upon the hill, but inside I can't make out anything in the shadows.

This novel, although partially fictitious, has cleared some of the shadows, and my mind's eye can make out faint glimpses of what Christina in this painting might be seeing. The painting has always left me with the feeling that she sees much more than what is readily apparent in the image.

This book is well written, the story impeccably and intricately woven scenes that connect the past to the future, connect one life to another, connect Christina Olsen to Andrew Wyeth.

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Extremely well put

Revisado: 01-18-17

The counterintuitive theories Manson espouses are so elegant, they turn the irrational into rationality itself. Our Western society, in centuries of attempts to improve life, has destroyed our emotional capacity for seeking meaning to Life. His ideas will leave you with much to contemplate.

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