Writer's Block: LiveJournal Book Club
Cider House Rules
If I could pick only one. Why?
The characters are real, and the circumstances are complex, and the writing is phenomenal, and it makes you think, it makes you live someone else's life and not be saddened by it - but instead it empowers you and makes you see the world differently, the way others might. And it's fairly historical also - as is takes place in the beginning of the 1900s - and spans both WWI and WWII but is not all about the war(s). Rather, how those wars affected homelife in the states.
This book stimulates the mind (and the senses) and takes you to the most random little life you would never have thought you'd want to go - but you do and no matter how terrible, you're a better person for reading it. Did I mention the fabulous characters? Wow. A whole community of very real people, who are living in the real world.
Random plus - it's a book you can read that has a movie, and the movie's screenplay is written by the author, and the movie is a fabulous version of the book - in part because it's been altered so much and certain parts cut out - but you still get that same message, if not the same warm fuzzy feeling. I enjoyed the book's ending much more than the movie's ending.
That's just my opinion, though. :)
If I could pick only one. Why?
The characters are real, and the circumstances are complex, and the writing is phenomenal, and it makes you think, it makes you live someone else's life and not be saddened by it - but instead it empowers you and makes you see the world differently, the way others might. And it's fairly historical also - as is takes place in the beginning of the 1900s - and spans both WWI and WWII but is not all about the war(s). Rather, how those wars affected homelife in the states.
This book stimulates the mind (and the senses) and takes you to the most random little life you would never have thought you'd want to go - but you do and no matter how terrible, you're a better person for reading it. Did I mention the fabulous characters? Wow. A whole community of very real people, who are living in the real world.
Random plus - it's a book you can read that has a movie, and the movie's screenplay is written by the author, and the movie is a fabulous version of the book - in part because it's been altered so much and certain parts cut out - but you still get that same message, if not the same warm fuzzy feeling. I enjoyed the book's ending much more than the movie's ending.
That's just my opinion, though. :)