All Over Creation
by Ruth L Ozeki
published
April 4th 2003
by Picador
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Hardcover, 432 pages
isbn
033049029X
(isbn13: 9780330490290)
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recommended to Halfempty by:
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recommends it for: people who can handle a little activist monologuing
recommends it for: people who can handle a little activist monologuing
I expected this book to be one of the best books I'd ever read, and it wasn't. So that was a rough start. Favorite author, second book, and it seemed a little less believeable than her first book, even though it was less far-fetched. The first time I read this book, I considered it to be a simplistic criticism of genetically engineered food, with a disappointingly stereotypical cast of characters--a fry-oil burning bus full of hippies with protest puppets make a pilgrimage to an Idaho monocul...more
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Read in November, 2008
This was a really good book. I have had it sitting around the house for awhile, but everytime I picked it up the book jacket description failed to interest me enough to pick it up and actually read it.
I am so glad that it finally got to me! The book is chock full of characters who shouldn't be believable but are. The major premise of the book is 14 year old girl has affair with high school teacher, is disowned by dad, moves away for many years, and returns as her father is on his death be...more
I am so glad that it finally got to me! The book is chock full of characters who shouldn't be believable but are. The major premise of the book is 14 year old girl has affair with high school teacher, is disowned by dad, moves away for many years, and returns as her father is on his death be...more
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I read Ruth Ozeki's "My Year of Meats" a long time ago and was curious about this newer one. If you are interested in organic farming, the GMO / non-GMO food debate, it's a nice fictional novel to read. The main character had an affair with her teacher when she was 14 and he comes back into her life years later - which was fun for me because I had a huge crush on my math teacher in high school and I used to try every which way to flirt with him. He was a nice and respectable guy though...more
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Anti-GMO activists, a wayward daughter, a religious-minded, dying farmer and his seed-saving, Alzheimer’s suffering Japanese wife, a farming couple who haven’t been able to conceive, a former hippie, free-love teacher turned PR flak for chemical companies, and more all converge on an Idaho potato farm as Ozeki once again gives us an emotionally meaningful political/social satire. Recommended, even if the “Seeds of Resistance” group is a bit of a caricature even as she treats them as real...more
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Read in September, 2008
Yeah, this is what I need...another book to piss me off about genetically engineered foods.
Slloow going, needed more editing. Too much character development, too many unlikable characters. If I weren't so interested in the GE/ family farm issues, I'd have aborted it by now. Not as good as "My Year of Meats."
Slloow going, needed more editing. Too much character development, too many unlikable characters. If I weren't so interested in the GE/ family farm issues, I'd have aborted it by now. Not as good as "My Year of Meats."
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