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    <body><![CDATA[It was &quot;meh.&quot;  I was so excited to read it when I pickted it up.  I thought it was a unique concept for a novel, but, as I read, I was disappointed.<br/><br/>While I think Jane Hamilton has a gift with words, I found the story to be meandering.  I had to reread passages to get grounded, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11345808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a painful read from an author that I have really enjoyed reading in the past. I have read and loved almost all of JH's other books (The Book of Ruth, A Map of the World, The Short History of a Prince)-in those books, the subject was unique and kept me interested, her writing style was amazi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14196835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the title, this book is not really about Madeline, which was very dissapointing because her story held so much promise.  The book centers on the extensive Maciver family relationships and is actually very political.  It is a nice book but failed to hold my interest for long.  For as much tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20704948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book that I've read by Jane Hamilton and, unfortunately, it's the one that I enjoyed the least.  I never really was comfortable with the premise--a young man, Aaron Mciver is married to a beautiful young woman named Madeline.  She suffers an accident early in their marriage, is bra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74680385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first read the summary I found the plot line intriguing. Growing up with your father's ex-wife as your sister, that's fairly unique, right? And it was except that wasn't really what the story focused on. This read more like the diary of the younger brother, Mac, except it included way too muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66029317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wait, I'm confused. Isn't Jane Hamilton considered a talented writer? Are her other novels any good, or is <em>When Madeline Was Young</em> characteristic of her work? <br/><br/>What a VAGUE novel this is. It moseys along, structurelessly, from irrelevant scene to irrelevant scene. Nothing is easy to pictu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60959004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this audiobook at the library and thought it sounded like such an original storyline and I was very intrigued. Even though the story is about a woman, the narrator is male with a distracting pretentious British accent. This male wasn't even her husband who decided to take care of Madeline af...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46136654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn’t what I was expecting. It’s not a bad book; just not what I was expecting. Given the title and the jacket summary, I expected a story much more focused on Madeline and the idiosyncrasies of including her in daily family life. Instead, I got a whole lot of Mac’s perception of the war...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63499820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Hamilton doesn't disappoint and this book was a worthwhile read. Spanning the 1940's through present, and incorporating politics (including the Viet Nam War and the Iran conflict), family relationships, and adult mental impairment, I found the book to be engaging. This book, like many Hamilton ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30398388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked the basic premise of this book and characters.  The protagonist's family scenes, though, were pretty humdrum.  I was really interested in the way Hamilton handled the controversy over the Vietnam War--good drama and not heavy-handed, but then at the end I couldn't stomach the way that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38757759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some beautifully written domestic scenes, full of insight about life in a well-adjusted middle-class midwestern family, something Hamilton has shown she's good at in her ealier books. But it doesn't seem to add up to much. Perhaps part of the problem is that the title misled me into thinki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66137064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>PEN/Hemingway award winner Jane Hamilton (for <em>The Book of Ruth</em>) delivers further proof of her stunning talent in her latest novel. The book is a subtle, provocative exploration of atypical family dynamics set against the backdrop of the tumultuous second half of the 20th century. Though the central ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45462202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite part of the book happens when the main character is in college. For about 20 pages, there are detailed scenes from my alma mater: Oberlin College.  Not many books take place in Oberlin, so it was sort of fun to read about someone hanging out in Tappan Square and going to concerts in Finn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65598439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a convuluted mess of a book. The author had so many storylines running throughout and that made it very difficult to make any sense of anything. The main idea of the story was that a young couple, Aaron and Madeline, fell in love, got married and shortly thereafter had a terrible tragedy befall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69773352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book made no sense. it was horrible. i bought the hardcover right as it was released and ended up putting it in the goodwill box as soon as i was finished. It was also very unrealistic and offensive that a woman with a traumatic brain-injury should be raised for and cared for by her husband and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72321665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I said in my update, this book was less heavy than Hamilton's other books.  But while it was pleasant to read--she's a good writer--I didn't finish it thinking, &quot;Now that was a good book.&quot;  I wouldn't particularly recommend it.  I must admit that part of my problem was that, whether fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76313503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the worst book I have read in a long, long time, and I have decided not to finish it - something I rarely do. I've suffered through half of the story, hoping it would get better, but I'm pulling the plug now. The storyline is very weak - it's almost like indulging in the sick and perverse si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47189630">more...</a>]]></body>
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