The Complete Fiction: The Bean Trees / Homeland / Animal Dreams / Pigs in Heaven
by Barbara Kingsolver
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OK, I've only read The Bean Trees, but it was the most pointless and emotionless book I've ever read. The text is plain and simple, no colorful descriptions. We don't get inside the characters' thoughts either. It's a pretty straight-forward simple story. I honestly don't know how it can be classified as literary at all. There is nothing literary in the book.
BTW, the physics of the tire exploding are completely wrong. Tire ratings are in PSI, which is pounds per inch, not pounds in general. ...more
BTW, the physics of the tire exploding are completely wrong. Tire ratings are in PSI, which is pounds per inch, not pounds in general. ...more
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Read in May, 2008
The edition that I read is not the one pictured. The edition I read was just The Bean Trees but I didn't see it on the list. Anyway....
The story is of a young woman (a few years after high school) who leaves her small Kentucky town for California. She makes it as far as Arizona and while she was traveling through Oklahoma a child was left in her care, abandoned actually. She develops friendships with a small, relatively close set of people.
I was impressed by the author (this is the...more
The story is of a young woman (a few years after high school) who leaves her small Kentucky town for California. She makes it as far as Arizona and while she was traveling through Oklahoma a child was left in her care, abandoned actually. She develops friendships with a small, relatively close set of people.
I was impressed by the author (this is the...more
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Read in January, 1999
I discovered Barbara Kingsolver through my high school Spanish teacher, first reading The Bean Trees and then her other fiction successively. I immediately loved her writing style, being both relatively simple and beautiful. I was also pleased to read the works of a Kentucky native like myself. The Bean Trees is still my favorite of the set, but all of them have true merit and ring really true to me.
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Read in January, 2007
I read The Bean Trees at the end of 2007. I finished the story while riding the bus home from work, and sobbed so hard that a tear dropped off my chin onto my coat. In public. ;) I devoured Pigs in Heaven in about three sittings, the final one in front of a friends house. That time I sobbed alone. I can't wait to read the rest!
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It took me a bit of time to really start enjoying the trilogy, once I did I could not put the books down. As for the short stories, I listened to them over the course of a long car trip and her storytelling really made the trip speed by. Kingsolver has an eloquent way with some of the most pedestrian concepts.
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Read in January, 2004
I have a compilation that has all these books except 'Homeland' in it. It was good to read, though not nearly as strong as Poisonwood Bible. Middle school kids should read these books. Remind me that I said this later.
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Animal Dreams is one of my favorites. It's a book that ends well. Great images and landscape. Kingsolver paints a beautiful picture. Not the biggest fan of Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven. Not very believable.
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Read in January, 2008
Ok... I've made it through Bean Trees and now I'm on Animal Dreams. I'm enjoying Animal Dreams better. I'll pull out some quotes for you later and as Lisa says "I will update you when I finish."
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Read in May, 2008
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Michelle
I finished Pigs in Heaven and enjoyed it. But I think I needed to read The Bean Trees first. Oh well, this won't be the first time I started reading a series in the middle.
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I bought this boxed set because I had read The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven and loved them enough to want to read them more than once.
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Nice little series, not overly done, with great characters. Again, lots of class issues, which I love reading about.
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I actually sent Barabara Kingsolver a letter once. AND she wrote back, because she rocks too.
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These three books I read separately but was just thrilled with them.....what texture....
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Ok, not crazy about her book the Bean Trees but she is a very discriptive writer.
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recommended to Becca by:
6th grade english teacher
everything by barbara kingsolver is good; even if it's bad.
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Read in January, 1999
I used to read these three over and over and over again!
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