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Title: The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve ISBN: 0-375-72457-5 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Multi-generational tale of fact and legend, intertwined.
Comment: As her father writes a factual history of the family tree, Nomi writes the legends surrounding the history. It is interesting to see the short, unimaginative paragraphs written by her father contrasting to the poetic, quirky, stories that she tells about the generations of her family. Starting with Esther and Yochanon, who are married only four months when she begins an affair with the baker which only serves to enhance the marriage...leading to their son Eliezer, who after his mother dies while birthing him, is gifted with the stepsister he will fall in love with and marry...leading to light-fingered Avra, who steals not for material acquisition (she often replaces the things she steals with other things that she has stolen) but because it is an intrinsic part of her being...These wonderfully told stories and offbeat personalities illuminate the Schine/Sepher family's lives with a bright light of warmth, humor, passion, and understanding. My only complaint is that by the time you finally get to know and like a character in the novel, their chapter has ended and you're introduced to a whole new set of people. I understand that it's necessary to condense in a multi-generation book that spans a century and a half, but there are some people in the book that I would have liked to have gotten to know better!
Rating: 2
Summary: Very dissapointed
Comment: After reading all of the reviews I could not wait to read this book. The subject and topic interested me. Howerver, I found it very disjointed. I found the authors use of the english language so amature, I almost felt that I was reading a text of writing from someone speaking and thinking with a heavy accent and a lack of knowledge of English grammar. Not to be confused, if in fact that is from whom the character tells the story I would have accepted that, however that is not implied here. It was so disjointed, and confusing, I had to constantly look up a reference source to understand the history of the time.
The idea and method of telling the story is indeed clever. However I never could get interested or absorbed in the people being told about.
This could have been a great book, and I guess a good first attempt, however I feel with some help and re writes it may have been better.
I really do not recommend it. I read at least two books of fiction a week and have read so many that are worth my time and enjoyment that I would recommend above this one. Sorry! I know it is not easy to write and I admire the effort, but I did not like it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Ended up giving it away to Goodwill...
Comment: I wanted to like this book. It sounded fascinating. It could have been great.
Instead, it ended up being in increasingly dull romance novel. If I wanted that, I would have gotten something from the grocerystore bookshelf.
Instead of a storyline or a sense of the rich history of Palestine, it resorts to graphic sex to keep the readers attention. And not even THAT kept my attention. I actually found myself groaning and saying, "Not again" and trying to flip passed it all. That was all there was to these characters. Copulating in various places that they "shouldn't". I would put the book down and the next night pick it up to read and not even remember what it was about. I finally gave up. That's $$$ I'll never get back...
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Title: Too Many Men : A Novel by Lily Brett ISBN: 0060084448 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Fateless by Imre Kertesz, Christopher Wilson, Katharina Wilson ISBN: 0810110490 Publisher: Hydra Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev, Hillel Halkin ISBN: 1841952427 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Trouble With Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji ISBN: 0312326998 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Sepharad by Antonio Munox Molina, Margaret Sayers Peden ISBN: 0151009015 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 08 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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