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Great Neck
by
Jay Cantor
In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes thei...more
Paperback, 720 pages
Published
August 10th 2004
by Vintage
(first published 2003)
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Dec 08, 2008
Ciara
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
aged virgins, comic book nerds (superhero variety), guilt-ridden liberals
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i wanted to like this book, but i just couldn't. after i finished reading it, i think i spent about two months going around, telling people how much i hated it, actually. my loathing has cooled, but i still dislike this book quite a bit. let me try to conjure up the basic plot from the dark recesses of memory (i read this over two years ago): this whole crew of childhood buddies hails from the town of great neck. they are mostly class privileged, jewish, over-achieving types, though they of cour...more
Mar 03, 2013
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This was my Hawaii beach reading, and it's a nice thick tome. I like to bring a big book with me on vacation. All I do is read, so I'd rather bring one or two huge books than schlep a suitcase full. There are some hysterically funny lines in this book, and he does a great job of showing us this world.
Self-indulgent, scattered and way too long. And yet, I had to read through to the end. This book takes what are, to me, several interesting pieces of recent history (the civil rights movement, the Weather Underground)and makes them into scattered pieces of narrative, some of which are nearly incoherent. Basically, the pieces don't add up to the whole, and at 700 pages, you kind of expect that. Not recommended.
Picked this up randomly, struggling with the beginning, we'll see if it gets any better.
Never really got much better, lots of stuff going on in it, which I think hurts it. Also, I didn't really connect with any of the characters. Somewhere between 2 and 3 stars
Never really got much better, lots of stuff going on in it, which I think hurts it. Also, I didn't really connect with any of the characters. Somewhere between 2 and 3 stars
I've been trying to get into this book and it is just not happening. I keep hoping it will grab me but it loses my interest after a couple of pages.
I bought this for my dad for xmas. Did he read it? Good question.
May 16, 2013
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