Maia

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Customer Reviews

Maia
I read this book not long after it was originally published, and loved it. I had been looking in local used book store and was unable to find a copy, when I found it here, I knew I had to have a copy. I haven't been disappointed, it's even better now. The story's imagery is fantastic and the storyline is incredible. Though it's fantasy, it feels like medival England. I loved the story 25 years ago, and I'm more in love with it now.

2010-04-08 | Book-A-Holic (Allen, Texas) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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I prefer Shardik
Negatives: it's too long, and some of the more interesting events occur "off-screen". The most interesting character (Occula) all but disappears in the second half. The sex is titillating, but there's both not enough (for it be truly erotic) and too much (feels like the author just enjoyed having a teenage buxom blonde to play with, at least in the first half). For an author who builds excellent stories with taut, engaging climaxes (see Watership Down), this work petered out at the end, in my opinion. Some of the fantasy terms for sex or sex organs are silly (e.g. "deldas" for breasts). "Baste" is used as a substitute for the f-word, and I couldn't really take it seriously. I think some of the "men are this way, women are that way" sections of the book come off a bit sexist, but at least there's Occula to be strong, funny, and still feminine (and the main villain is a truly terrifying lady...whose ultimate fate happens "off-screen"...dang it!).

Positives: some excellent descriptions and character insights (but sometimes certain aspects of Maia's character get pointed out to us too many times), and there are some good points on male and female sexuality. There are some appropriately tense situations, and Maia's character grows in a mostly-satisfying way. The ancient empire/society of this book is well-described and believable. Most of the time, you root for Maia and are happy when she succeeds.

As the Beklan empire goes, I recommend Adams's previous (and mercifully shorter) work, Shardik. Of course, nothing beats Watership Down.

2009-11-11 (Washington) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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Great Book So Far...
I probably shouldn't be writing this before I finish this book, but since it is out of print and not many people know of and remember it, I figured I'd let people know what they're missing.

First off, I found this book at my local library at one of the sales where they sell off old uncommon books for next to nothing. I got this book for about a dollar. It truly is a shame that more people can't read it, as it is rather hard to locate it seems. I had it sqirreled away in my bookcase for a good 3 years before I finally picked it up and started reading it.

The first thing to note, is that if you cannot handle wordy books, comparable to Tolkien and such, do not pick this book up. While it is a very good read, it is intricate in its wording and events. You must keep good track of what you read to keep up. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish exactly what you've just read, because it is just that wordy.

However, I have no problems with books like this because I am a very avid reader. Moving on.

This book has sex. End of story. While it is not as blatant as some books in its description of the act, the sheer presentation of the society and how it works with women makes this book at least 16+ in reading age.

Maia is very well crafted, if not a bit simple. But it is said that the best heroines are the one who start out simple and are forced to evolve and think and solve more. Maia grows from being a country bumpkin (albeit a beautiful one) into far much more.

If you can get your hands on a copy of this book, I do recommend it. Not for young readers in any case, though. The cover is also quite stunning, and part of the reason why it even caught my eye in the first place. The copy that I have is a 1984 edition, paperback. It is yellowing, and the cover is falling apart and I've had to tape it. But the sheer splendor of the artwork is amazing, as well at the gold foil inlays into the cover. If I can scan an image of it, I will. It has that lovely old book smell, that I'm sure many of us have learned to love. XD

However beware, this is a rather long book, being exactly 1223 pages in length, in this version, very small lettering, and very thin pages. Its about two and a half inches in thickness, making itself one of the longest books I've read aside from some of Terry Goodkind's works. An intimidating read for some, indeed, but definitely worth it.

Good luck on finding one, though. XD Cheers.

2009-07-03 (USA, Illinois) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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What???
Okay, maybe it's my own fault because I assumed it was a fantasy, as I found it in the fantasy section of a used book store. This is not fantasy, it's erotica. What the heck is with this book?! I only read the first two chapters and was really turned off from the story. Maia is naked and her stepfather masturbates, then in the next chapter they have sex! Not to mention she is 15 and he's 40. All in the first 27 pages! Not for me. Messed up, in my opinion.

2009-01-24 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 1

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Stick to Watership Down
I have tried twice to read this book. The first time was about 20 years ago when it first came out in paperback. I had read Watership Down a few years before that and I loved it. Then I struggled through Shardik, which was disappointing--the world Adams created was fascinating, but the story moved at a glacial pace until the very end, when there was a terrific finish.

I figured that after deciding to return to the Beklan Empire after 10 years, Adams probably had a pretty good story to tell. I got about 120 pages into the thing and simply lost interest. I was still fascinated by the potential there, but I just didn't have the stamina to figure out if the potential would be realized. To be blunt, I just didn't care what happened to the characters.

Twenty years later, I ran into the book at a used bookstore and decided to give it another try. I am not so rushed as I was 20 years ago (graduating from college helped). I would also like to think I'm a little more mature, maybe a little more able to catch subtleties I would have missed in my early 20s. And I loved Watership Down so much that I didn't want to miss something which had the potential to be that good.

So I tried to read the book again. And I still didn't care about the characters. I have come to the conclusion that it is not me--this book is simply dull and pretentious. When you get right down to it, it's just a boring book. In fact, I stopped at almost the exact same place I gave up 20 years ago.

So don't bother--this isn't a book that's going to be good, no matter how long it sits on your shelf.

2008-10-09 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1

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Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman

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With its spectacular beaches and charming towns, Cape Cod is known around the world as a vacation spot and a summer retreat for the well-to-do. But there is another Cape Cod, a hidden, hardscrabble, year-round world whose hunter-gatherer economy dates back to the Bay Colony. The world of the independent fisherman is one of constant peril, of arcane folkways and expert knowledge, of calculated risk and self-reliance -- and of freedom won daily through backbreaking, solitary work. It is a way of life deep in the American grain. Haunted by the numbers of family fishermen who have recently been forced to abandon the profession, Richard Adams Carey spent a year among a handful of men who stubbornly refuse to do so. Reminiscent of the work of William Warner and Joseph Mitchell, AGAINST THE TIDE is a masterly profile of four New England fishermen in which every page opens onto something more profound: maritime history, maritime ecology, and the poetic celebration of a special American place.

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Like many kids fortunate enough to spend summers by the shore, writer/journalist Richard Adams Carey grew up with a healthy respect for fishermen and the sea, "a world of astonishing color and shape and texture, of surprise and a perceptible knife-edge of menace." During the '90s, when headlines described the demise of New England's small-boat family fishermen, he decided to head back to Cape Cod to learn what he could about a threatened way of life and the forces--political, commercial, ecological--which imperil the survival of the fish the industry depends on. To this end, he spent a year working alongside four veterans of the Cape's inshore waters: a crewmate on a dragger (a boat that catches groundfish with a dragnet towed along the ocean bottom); a lobsterman; a long-liner (who sets quarter-mile or longer fishing lines sporting baited hooks every three feet); and a quahog dredger (essentially a clammer who harvests in bulk). Carey deftly weaves the details of their hard-won, unpredictable lives with passages on local and global fishing history, the minutiae of national and regional legislation severely regulating the fishing industry, the vicissitudes of the weather, and a smattering of stories and anecdotes. Throughout colonial times, for instance, fishermen regularly caught lobsters 4 feet long and weighing 45 pounds! Such an ancient, sizable creature is nearly inconceivable today.

Despite the tenacity of the men he fished with, Carey acknowledges that the owner-operators of small family boats off New England are likely going the way of the family farmer. Yet he reminds us that the issues deciding their fate concern us all: "how to tap this continent's wealth without plundering and despoiling it; how to reconcile our hard-wired demand for growth and consumption with a husbandman's concern for sustainability; how to mark our limits and resolutely stay within them." --Svenja Soldovieri

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Customer Reviews

Fantastick!
I gave this book to my husband who enjoyed this book immensly! He the "old fisherman" who used to fish out of Cape Cod and New Bedford, Woods Hole, all the way up to Maine, back in the old days before these new fishing regulations, said this book brought back fond memories of fishing and those long gone days.. Some of the people mentioned in this book were friends of his. The book is very well written and is a picture of the fishing industry, what it was and what it is today. Highly recommended to anyone interested in this subject.

2006-02-18 | wild about amazon (Portland, ME) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Is Book Burning Illegal?
This is going to be short. After having read "Living On The Edge" I thought I was getting another tale of life as a fisherman.Instead, what I got was life as a fisherman at town council meetings. The book is currently being used under the short leg of my pool table. ...

2003-03-22 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 1

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Better subtitle "Death of the New England Fisherman"?
Being a New England fisherman (hehe-rather, woman) I found the day-to-day lives of the fisherman very interesting-who knew scallops had blue eyes? However, I had a difficult time following the time frame of events because of the way Mr. Carey jumped around. I couldn't even tell exactly what year this book was taking place without some re-reading. The politics involved are sickening in the amount of time wasted and the fact that the committees could get nothing accomplished, evidenced with the ongoing cod crisis in New England today. Too bad none of the politicians involved happened to read this book.

2000-04-18 (Merrimack, NH USA) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 3

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An excellent inside look at the Commercial Fishing Industry.
If you read The Perfect Storm and came away wanting to know more about the commercial fishing industry, this is the book. Carey explains the views of the men and women who risk life, limb, and fortune in the waters off Cape Cod. He also explains the tedium of public hearings and governmental rule making which impact the lives of the fishermen.

I spent the summer in a rented house overlooking the commercial fishing fleet in Bodega Bay, California. I often wondered what happened on those boats once they left the harbor, and what regulations governed them. Against the Tide explains it all.

By way of criticism, I found the characters a bit hard to follow and the discussions of the regulations a bit tedious, but overall I learned a lot.

1999-10-08 (Hayward, California) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

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An enlightening look at a fading industry.
Richard Adams Carey has crafted a detailed look at a failing industry and a very well written narrative. One can only hope that present and future fishermen and politicians, American and Internationally, read Mr. Carey's book and learn from the mistakes of the past. The book brings you into the daily lives of New England fishermen in an honest, pragmatic way that doesn't decry the sins of history but certainly lays them bare for all of us to learn from. The author has carefully crafted and documented his first hand accounts, and recreates other aspects in a highly readable and informative style. If you're sick of Wall Street success stories, here's an in depth look at the lives of many equally important but far less appreciated Americans.

1999-10-02 | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Crucifixion by Power: Essays on Guatemalan National Social Structure, 1944-66

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Traveller

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Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.

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Customer Reviews

Simply elegant
I bought this book a long time ago, and had time to read it a few years ago. It was simply beautiful. The story of the Civil War, told by Robert E. Lee's horse, is given a fresh perspective in this novel. Traveller is the most loyal of Lee's soldiers, his mount through most of the war. He adores his master, trusts him, believes in him. The story follows him through the war, and into their mutual retirement, as he talks to the barn cats.

One of the things I loved about this book is that Traveller is able to ask questions and say things about the nature of war that his human counterparts can't. He tells the cat that everyone seems so excited to go to War, and that it must be a grand and lovely thing, a party, but he says they never get there. He is, instead, in a world of death and fire and pain. What a striking, haunting thought about human nature!

You do have to know a little about the characters of the Confederate army to figure out who these people really are, but it's a lovely book.

2010-06-14 (Maryland!) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Traveller--history from a warhorse's point of view
Excellent Civil War historical background and realistic viewpoint from an animal perspective, insightful as only an animal close to its human can be! Old Southern language is somewhat hard to follow at first but gets easier with continued reading and makes it very authentic and "in the moment in time".

2009-09-15 | librarycats (Huachuca City, Arizona USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Such a memorable book
I read this book when I was about 10 or 11 years old (probably around the time it came out). I have always loved books, and have read many over the years. There are very few books from my childhood that I could still give a "book report" on today without re-reading. Traveller is one of them. This was definitely one of my favorites, and I am ordering a copy for my nephew!

2009-08-21 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Fair to good, but not very good
Tough to find good copies of this one. This was advestised as "very good." At best, it's possibly good (for a well used book) but more likely only fair.

2009-04-21 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 2

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A delightful blend of fun and poignancy
The Civil War from the viewpoint of - General Robert E. Lee's horse??? Traveller, still a colt when his first owner sets off for a place called the War, can't wait to get there because surely anywhere young men seek so eagerly must be just like heaven. A horse's version of heaven, that is! So where is it that he winds up instead? A place of noise and blood, exhaustion and starvation, and death for horses as well as for men. His new master, "Marse Robert," wins Traveller's heart so wholly that the lively young horse soon decides he'd never prefer to be elsewhere. Yet still, Traveller never stops wishng he might have made it to the War at last...and that's just one of the seriocomic differences between a horse's perspective and that of the humans who surround and control him.

A delightful blend of fun and poignancy, complete with Traveller-coined nicknames for Marse Robert's fellow generals that had me in stitches. Anthropomorphic animals aren't usually favorites with me, and I sometimes found the use of dialect distracting; but I thoroughly enjoyed this book just the same.

2006-07-13 (Augusta, ME USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 4

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Watership Down: A Novel

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A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.

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Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.

The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes

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Customer Reviews

Still engaging, after a 20 year break
It's been at least 20 years since I first read this book - and coming back to it after all that time has been just as enjoyable.

What I appreciate more this time around is the lessons the book teaches on effective leadership and ethics of equality and representative politics. Those are two topics I never would have noticed reading this in my pre-teen years. We'll worth rediscovering.

2010-07-17 (Sunnyvale, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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This review is a little late.
I recieved my pruchase right on time. It came earlier than expected and I like that. Its in very good condition too.
So far I'm on the ark where the rabbits meet cowslip. Its a real surprise. The movie which I watched before this is completely different. I'm not sure why the movie left out some things inthe book, but I'm not gonna fault it on that. If a movie followed a book completely it would be many hours long. I'm really enjoying this book so far and can't wait to see what happens next. I might even watch the movie again and compare the two. I at first thought I would be reading somethink like Erin Hunters warriors series but I got something entirely different and maybe even better. Anyone who reads the book I also recommend the movie too which even though doesn't follow the book its still one of the greatest animated movies I've seen.

2010-07-17 | Pooky (USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Well-written and Very Unique
This is a lengthy but charming book about a troupe of rabbits who leave their warren with its oppressive social structure to make a better life. The rabbits are anthropomorphized about half of the time. The rest of the time they are portrayed realistically with the behaviors, enemies, foods, and type of homes that characterize wild rabbits in Britain.

The realistic part was my favorite aspect of the book. Adams is thoroughly knowledgeable about the lives and habits of rabbits, and it was fascinating to learn about them in so much detail.

The anthropomorphic aspect was also interesting, though. It is political allegory, social commentary, and a moving story about fictional characters. We see four different types of political structure in the various warrens: an priviledged aristocracy (in this case, entitlement is conferred not through bloodlines but according to superior size and strength); a society that is accepts the periodic sacrifice of some of its members in order that the survivors may enjoy a life of pampered luxury; a totalitarian society that values safety over freedom; and a democracy in which everyone makes decisions together.

Because this is a plot-driven novel without a great deal of character development, it has the feel of a fairy tale or allegory (although with much more detail.) This makes it less emotionally intense than it might have been, but I think that Adams made the right choice in writing the book in such a way. He struck a balance between the portraying the rabbits as natural and as anthropomorphized. To develop their characters and personalities more deeply would have been to humanize them, to take away their "rabbitness".

I didn't like the made-up rabbit language, though. I realize the purpose of it - to impart a sense of foreignness - but it isn't successful. The made-up words are substituted too randomly and arbitrarily, when an ordinary English word would have worked just as well (better, actually.) The invented language ends up just being irritating, to have to keep flipping to the back of the book to look up words in the glossary. (Doing that on a Kindle makes it even more annoying.) Even the author seem to get tired of it - I noticed that except for frequently-used words that one soon learns, he uses the "Lapine" language less and less as the book progresses.

Watership Down is a well-written and very unique book that can be enjoyed equally by both adults and older children. No wonder it is a classic!

(429 pages)


Quotes from Watership Down:

"I'd have him love the thing that was
Before the world was made."
- W.B. Yeats, quoted in Watership Down

"To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature."

2010-07-05 | ghost of a red rose (Mesa, AZ USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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disappointed
I was REALLY looking forward to this one. When I was a kid a friend of my mom's gave her a copy of this book. I remember wanting to read it because I respected the friend giving the book. Then Sawyer was Boone's reading copy on LOST. That gave it more weight. "Obviously, this is a fantastic piece of literature," I thought. Sadly, I did not find that to be the case. There must be something wrong with me for not liking it. Maybe I expected too much. I was hoping for something a kin to Animal Farm, which this book is not. I'm very disappointed.

2010-06-03 | The Book Hoarder (Denver, CO) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1

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Watership Down
I started reading this book already being a fan of the film. However although I think the film is excellent the book is better. The book has more to offer. Like most books which have been adapted to film, you can get more of an idea of the characters and their purpose from the book. Even if you know the story and certainly if you dont it should appeal to people of all ages. The rabbits are endearing and the story is exciting, funny and sometimes sad. The world of rabbits and the folklore created is just wonderful.

2010-05-31 (San Francisco, CA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Mercy Among the Children: A Novel

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When twelve-year-old Sidney Henderson pushes his friend Connie off the roof of a local church in a moment of anger, he makes a silent vow: Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul. At that very moment, Connie stands, laughs, and walks away. Sidney keeps his promise through adulthood despite the fact that his insular, rural community uses his pacifism to exploit him. Sidney's son Lyle, however, assumes an increasingly aggressive stance in defense of his family. When a small boy is killed in a tragic accident and Sidney is blamed, Lyle takes matters into his own hands. In his effort to protect the people he loves -- his beautiful and fragile mother, Elly; his gifted sister, Autumn; and his innocent brother, Percy -- it is Lyle who will determine his family's legacy.

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Transpose Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure to New Brunswick's rugged Miramichi River. Surround Job with loose fists, malicious boots, and cold, gallon wine. Invite the Macbeths over for drinks. Add a lame dog named Scupper Pit and you've got the raw ingredients of David Adams Richards's Mercy Among the Children. Set in an isolated, wind-besieged house with bullet holes in the tarpaper walls, Richards's novel wonders-- pointedly, beautifully--whether goodness is merely a luxury.

At the age of 12, having borne more suffering in his child's body than any adult should endure, Sydney Henderson vows never to harm another human soul. Turning his back on the violent alcoholism of his upbringing, self-educated Sydney wins the honest respect of the beautiful Elly and the children they bear. Honest respect, however, is rarely a match for fear and base human opportunism. Manipulated, attacked, and abused by a small community eager for a scapegoat, Sydney loses his job, the health of his wife, and, most importantly, the respect of his son Lyle. "There is no worse flaw in man's character," Richards knows, "than that of wanting to belong."

The superb, controlled, and unapologetic Mercy Among the Children is nothing less than an inquiry into human strength. Richards uses the crack of ribs on a frigid night to remind us of the opportunistic populism of much so- called morality. Mercy, which shared Canada's premier fiction award, the Giller Prize, with Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost, combines the hound dog's attention to locale of fellow Maritimer Alistair MacLeod with the quotidian insight of countryman Timothy Findley's The Wars, especially its reminder that the emotions behind war also drive fights over who should scrub the dinner dishes. --Darryl Whetter

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Customer Reviews

Heartbreaking poverty
This is really quite an incredible read. I was captivated by this story, and by the three generations of complicated Henderson men who just couldn't catch a break. The characters were very intriguing, and a lot of what happened was largely unexpected. The writing is exceptional, and it captures the loneliness of the place (rural New Brunswick) and the desperation of the people who live there very well. These people will stay with you for a long time afterward. Highly recommended.

2010-02-10 (Los Angeles, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Fine Dialogue, but the idiot plot triumphs.
Richards has an engaging writing style. It's simple and direct. The plot however concerns a family victimised by townsfolk you'd see in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The villains are written as completely one note. There is no depth to them and the Richardson clan is so meek and idiotic (confessing to crimes for no reason) that you feel nothing for them. Save your money and read the co-winner for the Giller Prize.

2008-02-01 | cmleidig (Akron, Ohio United States) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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Fine Writer, but depressing, ridiculous story
Richards has a way with dialogue and the book is readable, but the story is so gloomy and the characters do not ring true. Everyone is either too noble or too villainous. The plot requires characters to behave like idiots. If they didn't, the novel would much, much shorter. Because the characters are one dimensional, it's impossible to feel anything for them.

2008-01-17 (London) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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I gave up.
Fine writing, beyond a doubt. I read widely and skip the fluff, but this was just sooooooooo unmitigatedly depressing, page after page of utter misery, that I could not go on. If you are really STRONG, get it, read it. Otherwise, you may never reach the mercy. I didn't.

2007-05-07 | book fiend (Ecuador) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 3

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Fiction on a Monumental and Profound Scale
Don't miss this one!

I have just completed this amazing novel, after devouring it in three days. David Adams Richards is a novelist of such staggering power that it is not at all a stretch to compare him with Hardy, Melville, and Tolstoy. His story of Morality, Poverty, Family, Violence, and the inevitable hand of Fate is a controlled steamroller of mounting tragedies, set in motion by a collection of common saints, fools, and monsters, characters in a town bound together by generations of interlocking lives.

Author Richards's unflinching portrait of a family destitute and battered by the condemnation of their community reminded me of the great novel "The Dollmaker" by Harriet Arnow, while the awesomely constructed plot that unfolds with such terrifying inevitability reminded me of that greatest of thrillers, "A Simple Plan" by Scott Smith.

That a book can be such a profound comment on our Humanity, and still be such a monster of a gripping story that you'll be unable to stop reading, is a gift to the lover of great novels.

And it is as affecting to the reader as Greek drama -- it will take me days to come down from the experience of reading it, and perhaps years to find a novel as perfectly formed as Mercy Among The Children.

2006-09-24 (New York City) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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