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Portraits

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Portraits is the best book I have every read! It has very interesting characters that you care about. The plot is very involved and moves at a good pace. Portraits could be the story of my grandparents and great-parents because the theme is similiar in families who emigrated to this country at the turn of the century. The characters in Portraits are very believable and remind me of people that I know.

Sucha good read. Twenty years ago, my sister and I read this book over dinnerat a local burger place. We didn't even talk, we just patiently waited for each other to finish a section so the other one could read it. We still read it when we visit each other's house. A wonderful, heartbreaking and inspirational story that is thick with character development. Love it, love it, love it!

Portraits is a fantastic book. It is interesting, articulate, fast paced and very real. it is very moving; you feel the joy and the pain each character goes through. i would recomend this book to anyone, it is simply extraordinary. this is by far the best book i have ever read as well as my favorite. i have read this book many times and i never get tired of revisiting these familiar pages. you must read this book!!!!

I thought I would like it, but I was seriously let down. The story is indeed a good one, especially the struggle of women in this book, but unfortunately the plot was somewhat thin, and even important events were belittled or downgraded and were not entered into in detail. Has its fair share of tragedy which is good, but story line is frail and watered down.