Marjorie Morningstar [Paperback]

Herman Wouk (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 573 pages
• Publisher: Signet # T-1454; First Paperback edition (October 1, 1957)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000IV1KO6
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my very favorites!!!!!, January 3, 2012

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This review is from: Marjorie Morningstar (Paperback)

I don't buy many duplicate copies of the same book - but when I see a copy of Marjorie Morningstar on a shelf somewhere - I must purchase it. I've passed this book - AND MY LOVE FOR THIS BOOK - along to my little sisters. How Wouk could write war stories & then ........ THIS ........ wonderful & magnificent book about a girl's coming of age, is completely beyond me! But, it's so well-written & so poignant, so true & insightful. I know it's an old book, but ANY age would not regret reading it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Remembrance from My Youth, August 18, 2011

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This review is from: Marjorie Morningstar (Paperback)

As a literature teacher of 39 years, I'm always excited to find a student who loves reading and seeks good books. In the library one day, I was enjoying conversation with Missy, and she asked me what book I remembered from my youth. I led her to the shelf for MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR, and behold, it was still enjoying shelf life! She checked it out, sought me out saying she loved it and wanted a copy of it for herself. Well, it was impossible to find something that old, until I went on Amazon and found a copy. She was excited when I presented it to her with my blessings. Thank you Amazon.com and thank you Herman Wouk (author) for writing a book about a young woman starting her Life's Journey that can still entertain young readers.

5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately depressing, but good book, January 6, 2012

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Janster (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marjorie Morningstar (Paperback)

I read this a long time ago in college, because I had read Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddens, and Maggie, her protagonist, who was on the edge of quitting college, was reading Marjorie Morningstar. She chose a different route than Marjorie, but that's a different review.

I read Marjorie Morningstar and I enjoyed it, but ultimately it's a downer of a book. Marjorie just sort of gives up, and at the end she's sitting in the yard of her house riposting with her daughter, and she has a bit of a drinking problem. That's why it's so depressing. She tries to follow her dreams of being an actress and finds that she doesn't have enough talent. There are lots of women who don't have talent enough for one thing, but they go ahead and have careers of one sort or another. Marjorie doesn't get what she wants---a big career as an actress---so she gives up altogether.

It's clear in the book that it's not her failed relationship with Noel that does her in, but that she doesn't make a go of it in the theater. It's the dream given up that makes this such a downer of a book.

But it's well-written. All of us know a Marjorie or two who think they'll go from being the star of the high school play to standing on stage acccepting the Oscar in a few years. They don't make it and they end up in stable, if dull, jobs and marriages because they opted for safety at the first disappointment.