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Title: The Brothers K by David James Duncan ISBN: 0-553-37849-X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.87 (93 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well Worth the 700 Pages
Comment: I should preface this review by telling you I have four brothers (and a sister) of my own. Whether that had an impact on how well I related to the work, I do not know. However, don't let the thickness and small print get to you. Anyone with a family (meaning the vast majority of people) should find Duncan's anecdotal style strangely easy to relate to and very funny at the same time. The novel traces the lives of the members of the appropriately named Chance family. The brothers, though very different from one another, share a love for baseball and for one another. Duncan lends a specific voice, body and depth of character to each individual in the novel. Each person is a vivid, breathing archetype. There is Everett, the rebel; Peter, the seeker of Truth; Irwin, the oaf with the personality of a Teddy Bear and many more whom we see in various lights and perspectives as the plot progresses. Should you read "The Brother's K," prepare to laugh out loud, shed a tear or two, get a little silly and a little nostalgic. For Duncan, nothing is trite; no sentament is wasted and no emotion untrue. He made me miss my brothers, kiss my mother and shake my father's hand. It was the best therapy a human can buy...and it was only 700 pages.
Rating: 5
Summary: THIS IS PURE ART
Comment: Being a native Oregonian and having a husband who is a baseball fanatic, I suppose it was only a matter of time until I found my way to THE BROTHERS K. It is without doubt, the most entertaining and fulfilling novel I have ever read. The 700 pages went too fast! I grew to love the Chance family as I laughed and cried with them through the pages of Duncan's opus, and I postponed reading the last pages as long as I could, simply because I did not want it to end. Duncan provides an unbelievably complex, yet brilliantly clear portrait of a family as it comes of age, careening through the turmoil of adolescence, religion, war, sickness and love. THIS BOOK IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVE IN ANYONE'S HOME LIBRARY!
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book
Comment: The Brothers K is a masterpiece to say the least, for a single man to put into words the insights of another mans life would be miraculous undertaking in itself. In this case the author David James Duncan not only undertakes such a task, He goes well beyond. His Epic journey weaves us through the dynamic progression of an entire family. Involuntarily immersing you on a level so personal you can't help but align your self to the novels humanity. This book is a chronicle of not only the progression of its characters souls on their path through life as it is a glimpse into a time still to close commentary. The way in witch this book is written is unlike any I have ever read but it does not strike you as radical in any way, Until you have read and can fully begin to comprehend and understand its power. It is almost as if one man some how channeled the energy of an age that could not express its self in history books. There is not much that can be said to really pitch this book except maybe that if you lived in the time of Beethoven you probably would not have heard of him or his music but if you were ignorant to such and integral part of a culture as Beethoven now it would be at the least a personal loss, I'm not trying to say Duncan is a genius. But as a writer he is a master and this is his masterpiece his 9th symphony.
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