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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read,
By Hearth (Darnestown, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tall Pine Polka (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Paperback)
This is the kind of book you save to give to your sister or best friend. It's a great read, very interesting characters. Both the men and the women are three dimensional and grow throughout the book. Having grown up in Los Angeles, I can appreciate the movie ambiance. Lankvik gets it down pretty well, with a good understanding of the peculiar hold that tinseltown sometimes gets on folks. Yet, it isn't one of the nine million Hollywood noir books that have gone on so tediously elsewhere. The people are real people, in Hollywood or in Minnesota. I found myself thinking about the book all during the workday, wondering if it would be possible to sneak away to read one more chapter before night time. Now that's a book!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet, folksy, entertaining look at an unusual small town,
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This review is from: The Tall Pine Polka (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (Paperback)
If you like the small-town, everybody-knows-your-name ambience of Jan Karon or Fannie Flagg novels, then you should give "The Tall Pine Polka" a whirl. Lorna Landvik's latest novel focuses on the residents of a small Minnesota town: their loves & losses & lessons they learn. As you might expect, there is a cast of eclectic, eccentric townfolk: coffee-shop owner/former battered wife Lee, orphan/souvenir shop owner/soon-to-be-Hollywood-starlet Fenny, delightful lesbian couple Miss Penk and Frau Katte, shoemaker-with-an-unrequited-love Pete, and sexy Native American newcomer Big Bill, to name a few. Interspersed - to great comic effect - are some California residents, too, as the plot revolves around the making of a Hollywood movie in this small town and the when-worlds-collide effect on the residents and filmmakers. Sure, the book's a little corny from time to time, and there are an awful lot of coincidences and tie-backs (a la a Seinfeld episode), but it's hard to beat a novel as spunky, fresh and ultimately upbeat as this one.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderfully inspring,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Tall Pine Polka (Hardcover)
The story revolve round a group of lively coffee-lovers in a small town, the Tall Pine. Central to the story is the lovable Fenny Ness and her friend Lee. A summary of the story will not do justice to the book as all the characters in the book, no matter how small their roles were, made the whole book came alive. The story brought in Hollywood, romance and rivalry, and traces of tragedies, but through them all, the characters remained true to themselves and their beliefs. The whole book is so lively, so lovable that I found it hard to put down.Reading the book, I felt as if I know Fenny, Bill, Lee and gang all my life, sharing their laughter and tears. It was as if I am part of Cup O¡¦Delight. It made me feel inspired and encouraged at the thought that there is some place in the world where faults are accepted, where rules can be broken gracefully and where love conquers all.
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