Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Bloom's Guides) [Hardcover]

Harold Bloom (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 133 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (March 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791081737
• ISBN-13: 978-0791081730
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,753,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Chosen Bloom's Guide is Listed Here Incorrectly, August 24, 2008

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This review is from: Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Bloom's Guides) (Hardcover)

Amazon displays links, editorial descriptions and user reviews for the actual mass market paperback on the web page for the Bloom's Guide. Basically, the Amazon web page for the Bloom's Guide is selling Harold Bloom's in-depth, college level analysis of the book, not the book itself.

Yet, the identical information shown on this product page is displayed on the mass market Chaim Potok book pages - there is no distinction that these are two different books.

This was very misleading to my 15 year old high school student who needed the actual book for a school assignment and we purchased the Bloom version by accident. Bloom's analysis is of no use to her as it is over her head and won't help her achieve what her assignment entails.

Very disappointed in Amazon - I hope they fix this.

4.0 out of 5 stars Guides/The Chosen, March 22, 2009

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William J. Fice - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Bloom's Guides) (Hardcover)

Not what I expected but the book was interesting to read. Disagreed with most of the comments. The Chosen, the novel, is a great book.

7 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I read this while I was in middle school and now I understand why I didn't like it, February 9, 2008

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M. H. Shulman (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Bloom's Guides) (Hardcover)

The truth of this book, is that it is subversively against Chassidism. Chassidism is portrayed as just the opposite of what it truly is. It's portrayed as rigid and out of date and frankly not 'with it.' Of course Danny must be a genius if he wants to break free of the mold of Chassidism. I grew up in a secular house-hold, and it seems that the calls of chassidism were within me even then, because I had a distate for the book and felt it had a significant bias. While Danny longs to break free of chassidism, I have found that Chassidism has helped set me free. It seems to me that Danny was just the opposite of a genius, and Chaim Potok was capitlizing on the secular world's viewpoint to create a book that was not so subtly anti-chassid. It's only years later now that I realize why I had such a distaste for the book. The book points away from the truth, not towards it.