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Beach Music (平装)
by Pat Conroy
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Fiction |
| Market price: ¥ 108.00
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¥ 98.00
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MSL rating:
 Good for Gifts |
MSL Pointer Review:
Beautiful writing, gripping characters, a book showing why Conroy has been regarded as America’s most beloved storyteller.
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Amanda (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
As I set off for Europe this summer I picked up this book and it just drew me in. This book was recommended to me by my mother and father, being that it was both of their favorite books. I have never finished a book so fast or wanted to continue to read more of one author’s books. I have now gone on to read three others of his, but this one was by far the best. It is a great novel that seems so realistic even with the zany events that occur throughout the book. I love Southern humor, and this book demonstrates it so perfectly. I have recommended this book to all of my friends, and not one of them has read it and not absolutely loved it. This book is great for female or male, in that all people can relate to it in some way. I absolutely love Pat Conroy and his writing styles. |
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Larry Hand (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
For a book that curiously begins with an error in the first sentence (the "Silas Pearlman Bridge in Charleston" is really the Silas Pearman Bridge), this is a fine read. Perhaps the change in spelling is literary license. After 500 pages down and 300 to go, I was ready to drive to Charleston and throw the book over the bridge from which Shyla leapt. However, I'm afraid of heights and, since the book was heavy enough to kill a whale if it hit him on the head, I decided to just finish it. It was a richly rewarding experience.
Still, I was left with the feeling that I had read three different books rolled into one. The material relating to the holocaust could have been incorporated into one standalone book, the story of Jack and his friends would have made a great vacation read all by itself, and the story of Jack and his family would have been a wonderful third book. Beach Music is a good thing, but maybe too much of a good thing. Anyway, I loved the story but wished the descriptions of food, marshes, cities, sunsets, sunrises, so forth and so on could have been shorter. At 800 pages, even a masterpiece can be laborious. No doubt though, Conroy should never be speed-read, just as Mozart should never be fast-played. |
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