About this title: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gilead" pens a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations.
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Date Published: 2008-09-02
ISBN-13:9781427205100ISBN:1427205108
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"I wonder what do people, who haven't read Gilead would think of this book. Would such people be able to piece together the story of Jack's fatherly abandonment, and so, then at what point of the book? I wonder if know the background, and the "ending" of the story added or took away from my reading experience. However, it has been a wonderful experience to go back and forth between the books, comparing recorded conversations and the apparent attitudes between the books. Overall, I like this a bit less than Gilead, mainly because I found Gilead's epistolary style with its short, broken-up passages, more conducive to reflection that the book seems to inspire. I would be grateful for more room for thought in Home. However, like Gilead, Home resonated deeply with certain themes within my own life, and I am think Robinson to be a remarkable writer for being able to adapt her style so well to her very different literary characters."
"I had to slow down from my usual speed to read this book and take it all in. The author throws in a lot of thought-provoking observations. I liked that it is set in Iowa, although it really doesn't refer much to that aspect of it."
"Ok, so my top 10 list is sort of a fluid 12-15 now but this book has to take it's place next to it's companion, "Gilead" as one of my favorites of all time. I finished it today and, perhaps it moved me more than it normally would given recent events, but I really think it's just that good. This is the companion of "Gilead" and chronicles the same events of one summer in a small Iowan town in the early 60's. The books follow the waning days of two ministers and life-long friends as the prodigal son of one (and name-sake/god son of the other) returns. Marilynne Robinson is an amazing author. Her characterizations are flawless and her ponderings of Christian doctrine and human frailties are often poignant and always forgiving. If you read one of these books, you must read the other."
"This was the first book of Marilynne Robninson's that I've read so I wasn't sure what to expect. At one point I thought of the Movie "Amadeus" when the king tells Mozart that one of his compositions has too many notes and Mozart looks at him with incredulity and says, "which notes should I remove??" I thought the book was alternatingly "too wordy" and heavy with page after page of beautifully written prose. It was a small book but a slow, deliberate read. Many reviews state that it wasn't her best book so I'll be curious to try her others. All in all, I enjoyed it and several phrases will be in my head for awhile."
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