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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781400032655
ISBN: 1400032652
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 08, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: July 08, 2003
Sales Rank: 149083
Studio: Vintage
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Rating:  - One man's melancholy autumn - in life
I read this book in October for my book club. It is the perfect month to set the tone for this book: the apple harvest, the chill in the air that forebodes of winter, the melancholy. Our main character is in the autumn of his life, and he has learned that he will not have a "winter" - he has terminal cancer. This is a quiet book, evoking the reflections of a man at a crossroads. He decides to explore what may lay down one road, suicide, by going on a hunting trip east of the mountains back to ... Read More
Rating:  - Formulaic
This book follows a very predictable formula, and therefore, offers no real insights. Here is the Formula:
1. Terminally ill doctor (the doctor part is important to the plot) sets out on a journey to end his life.
2. It is necessary that the author gets him out of his car so he can interact with other people. So there is a car wreck.
3. The assorted people he runs into once he has been extracted from his isolated car, of course, offer him Things to Consider and A Reason to ... Read More
Rating: - SORRY...NOT THAT INTERESTING
I started the book with anticipation and enjoyed the first few chapters. However, the story started going downhill when Ben meets character after character with not much happening. Ben doesn't seem to come to any conclusions through the course of his physcial journey and and I didn't see any emtional journey taking place either. Also, the writer mentions geographic areas endlessly and unless you're familiar with the area of eatern Washington, it was bit boring to hear of all the landmarks and town ... Read More
Rating:  - subtly captivating
With the first sentence I was captivated; "On the night he had appointed his last among the living, Dr. Ben Givens did not dream, for his sleep was restless and visited by phantoms who guarded the portal to the world of dreams by speaking relentlessly of this world." I read this book because I loved reading Snow Falling on Cedars and wanted to read another book by this author. Guterson weaves a story of love between a husband and wife into a story about dying and does it well. He writes of the value ... Read More
Rating: - Not done with life yet....
People seem to really like or really dislike this book. I enjoyed it very much and recommend it highly. I'm giving nothing away in telling you it's about a dying man and how he makes elaborate plans to leave this life -- and then what happens instead... a very "human" book, one that ably demonstrates how even a dying grandfather still has the capacity to grown and learn.
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