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Title: Floating by Robin Troy ISBN: 0-671-02449-3 Publisher: MTV Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (18 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not quite This Side of Paradise
Comment: Ms. Troy, undoubtedly, has a unique and vibrant voice. The prose is elegant. However, the novel, itself, tends to float too much for its own good. Conversations are brief and although they are relatively realistic, they are overshadowed by the deluge of descriptive passages. In collusion with this lack of human interaction, I found the character's actions difficult to understand. These characters are almost more capricious than believable. More characters than human. All of these points could have been nullified if the ending had been a definite, poetic moment, with some sort of clear meaning. But ultimately, the extended (and not exceedingly relevent) metaphor of floating dominates the book and leads to meaningless oblivion, not far from the senselessness of action which Ms. Troy seems to be trying to convey. Why do these people do these things? Why are they attractive (is this the vapidness of the Marlboro man, etc...)? Why WAS this 220 page book written? A good first work? Sure. But worthy of inordinate amounts of praise? No. I hope Ms. Troy continues to work and perhaps we shall see great things of her. Writing is more than talent. Writing should meliorate the mind and spirit.
Rating: 1
Summary: One star for Writing a Book
Comment: "Floating" is exactly what this book is. As a native female Montanan I am offended by this author's careless representation of life in a "small ranching town." It doesn't surprise me that this book won the MTV award, since both characters are more concerned with the placement of their "hips" (see any page for the word "hip"), than with moving the story along on any deep level. They sway, they sashay, they glance and sweat a lot. This author pretends to know about horses and fires. We just spent a summer with fires all around us and unlike her character "Ruby" like the jewel! you can not see flames from seven miles away in the middle of the day, fires don't just go away, and remarkably, they don't let you hike there the first day flames are gone. What is most offensive to me about this thin story is that Robin and her editor must assume that no one reads here, west of the Mississippi. We do. Some of us even write, but more acurately than your award-winning romance novelist.
Rating: 1
Summary: not impressed
Comment: As was previously mentioned in a previous review, I expected something a lot more impressive from MTV. However, I was not impressed with the characters or the plot. The story seemed to drag on forever without direction, and then just in the very last chapter seemed to address the issues that should have been the main portion of the book. Thank goodness I found it in a library!
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Title: Fake Liar Cheat by Tod Goldberg ISBN: 0743400569 Publisher: MTV Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dreamworld by Jane Goldman ISBN: 0671787209 Publisher: MTV Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Pieces by Stephen Chbosky ISBN: 0671001957 Publisher: MTV Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Crooked by Louisa Luna ISBN: 0743439953 Publisher: MTV Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Brave New Girl by Louisa Luna ISBN: 0743407865 Publisher: MTV Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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