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Title: Stealing Beauty by Susan Minot, Susan Monot, Bernardo Bertolucci ISBN: 0-8021-3492-0 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: JESUS WHAT A DISASTER; SO BADLY WRITTEN, IT HURTS
Comment: This thing is abyssmal, just terrible and amatuerishly written. Nuff said.

Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful, absolutely touching
Comment: This movie is unbelievably bello, carino, it is beautiful. The story is touching, the landscape is like candy, and the ending is beautiful as well. Lucy is a girl almost a woman, who is searching for her the answer to an intriguing passage she found in her mother's diary. She is also searching for the boy, now almost a man also, who she kissed the last time she visited the breathtaking Italian villa four years past. This movie will leave you feeling like you have just witnessed a moment of beauty so strong and so intense that you will feel changed.

Rating: 3
Summary: Not as good as the movie
Comment: This book was a spin-off from the movie, Stealing Beauty, and like most books based on movies, the book fails to capture the mood and romance of the original. Description of the Italian countryside in this books pales in comparision to Bertoluccis' masterful use of the camera. The magnetic appeal of the film is lost in second-rate descriptive attempts and clumsy use of words. Regretfully, the author gets caught up in retelling the movie's blocking and action scene by scene and forgets to focus on the characters and the story being told.

However, if you enjoyed following Lucy's coming of age story and want to relive the moments, you could like this book.

For people who loved the film, Stealing Beauty may be worth a look. For everyone else, I'm sure you could easily find a more thoughtful, worthwhile and enjoyable book to read.

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