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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book was a gift for my husband,
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This review is from: Bright Flows the River (Hardcover)
I have read this book years ago. It's content has stuck with me over the years and now that I am married I wanted my husband to read it. He is very picky about books and authors and I wasn't sure if he would like it. But he did very much so. The book contains a message to all of us who live in this modern and often so phony world with it's perceptions of what life's priorities should be all about. It is a reminder that we should listen to our inner self, follow our heart and dare to life outside the "box" society often wants to put each and every one of us into. Some of us simply don't fit in such boxes but dare not to be different and suffer daily with the struggle to fit. I often remember the content of this book in certain situations and am happy to have found a copy at Amazon.
Carla U. Kelly
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exploring Real People,
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This review is from: Bright Flows the River (Mass Market Paperback)
Taylor Caldwell's descriptions not only of the physical attributes of her characters but most especially the emotional conversations that go on in their heads shows that she has a handle on depicting what real people are like. You come away with a sense of having known these people and felt their joys and sorrows. They react in distinctively true-to-life fashion - they don't always have it all figured out. She gives us characters not only to love but who share their wisdom with us and give us a sense of having someone *big enough* to look up to in her heroes. If you like "character novels" this is a great read!
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Densely written exploration of a man's midlife crisis.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bright Flows the River (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was written in the late 1970s, and features one of the "hot topics" of the day, the male midlife crisis. Full of now-passe Cold War references, pre-AIDS era social behaviour, and surprisingly hostile views of marriage, home and family, this book is intriguing, densely written, often rewarding, sometimes annoying. It is not a "light read".Through flash-backs it explores the events leading up to the attempted suicide of Guy Jerald, a rags-to-riches American entreprenuer obsessed with financial success. He is "trapped" by his sense of duty in a passionless, mismatched marriage. His ex-Army buddy and psychologist, and a female lover, attempt to help him wrestle with his demons. Strengths: good characterization, much detail, human insight, well written for most part. Flaws: author overuses certain pet words and harps on favorite themes; main character is actually selfish and weak, which undermines my sympathy for his "torment"; author can't make up her mind what her "heroic male" should be: the father, who "lives and lets live" peacefully on his farm, or the "warrior hero" who confronts "Fascistic Communism". A minor classic of 70s fiction.
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