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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a tough time with this one.  Gilead is one of my absolute favorites and I was so excited about this novel coming out.  I think most of my problem is with the reader of the audio book.  Her voice for Boughton sounds like a caricature of an old person making fun of an old person. Its really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36303420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent almost the entire book in a state of mild disappointment: the writing doesn't have the same rarefied beauty as that of <em>Housekeeping</em> or <em>Gilead</em>, and, for what felt like a long time, I found myself unastounded. As I read, I continued to hope that something would shift, that some word or paragra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41257378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is simply beautiful and heartbreaking.<br/><br/>I started getting emotional, tears started welling up on page 26, when I read this about a sister awaiting her prodigal brother’ homecoming after twenty years of his absence:<br/><br/><pre>…Glory had her own hopes, which were also too high...</pre><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33112104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was not disappointed by Marilynne Robinson's third book.  When one reads good literature, for instance, Cormac McCarthy, one is often struck by a turn of phrase or a passage.  &quot;How aptly and poetically written,&quot; one thinks.  This happens rarely with Robinson, because her prose lead us pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32199190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I'm missing something, or I'm too young, or maybe nothing can live up to the expectations I had for this after Housekeeping and Gilead, or maybe I read it too fast, but I seriously found this book incredibly boring.  I liked the beginning and the end, and the book does a good job of building t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32363927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having listened to GILEAD on books on tape, I was somewhat prepared for HOME  It is an unusual book, the sentences have a wonderful rhythm and cadence, and the characters are so real and often so very sad.  (I want to shake Jack and his father and Ames  and even the narrator much of the time.) Basic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37808438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, so my top 10 list is sort of a fluid 12-15 now but this book has to take it's place next to it's companion, &quot;Gilead&quot; as one of my favorites of all time.  I finished it today and, perhaps it moved me more than it normally would given recent events, but I really think it's just that good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43420013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I really disliked a book I would not read it, but I was tempted to quit reading this book MANY times. But I read on, thinking it would get more interesting. Sadly, it never did. But if you are super bored go for it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder what do people, who haven't read <em>Gilead</em> would think of this book. Would such people be able to piece together the story of Jack's fatherly abandonment, and so, then at what point of the book? I wonder if know the background, and the &quot;ending&quot; of the story added or took away from my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69098182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the companion novel to the gorgeous &quot;Gilead&quot;, one of the few books to which I have given five stars on this site, I eagerly awaited the release of &quot;Home&quot;. It did not disappoint; however, it was not &quot;Gilead&quot;. It lacked its warmth and its intimacy and, frankly, granted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40138922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 actually.  The simple, sometimes beautiful, sometimes anxious prose creates an atmosphere that brings this story to wonderful life.  For a story set in the 1960s, which deals with some archetypal themes of that decade, there is refreshingly no ideological axe grinding.  Rather than preaching a p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35856832">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. I had a good, long weep after finishing it. But that's not why I love it. I've been sitting here trying to analyze exactly why I love it so much but words are failing me — and you know that never happens. So here goes. Her other books are also wonderful, but this one makes me sur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33575003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well after talking to Shayla about Gilead, I decided to give Home another try although from the first pages I found myself getting a little bored with all the talk about how wonderful Jack was.<br/><br/>However, in the end I really liked it.  Not as much as Gilead, but still a lot, and I wished I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19209946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book of Marilynne Robninson's that I've read so I wasn't sure what to expect. At one point I thought of the Movie &quot;Amadeus&quot; when the king tells Mozart that one of his compositions has too many notes and Mozart looks at him with incredulity and says, &quot;which notes sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41994848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Gilead, the predecessor to this book, and looked forward to meeting the same characters in Home.  What a disappointment.  I gave up about halfway through this book.  I was on page 150 an NOTHING HAD HAPPENED YET.  I understand that this is a literary novel, and the point is style and charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40092780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a highly satisfying read.  Marilyn Robinson has only written a few books in the last 25 years or so, and I feel blessed to have read this one.  The prodigal son, Jack, is one of the best written characterizations that I have had the pleasure to enjoy in years.  His struggles with his own wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37991935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thanks, Cath, for sending me directly to this book, which I just happened to have from the library.  Your review is right in so many ways.  <br/>   What a waste of a couple of lives. . ..Is Robinson saying that we really don't have free will?  Glory's willingness to stay in Gilead to please her sib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38516557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautifully written book, and I reread many lines simply for the power and beauty of Robinson's words. This is not for those seeking fast paced reads. The story unfolds slowly and is told through the eyes of &quot;Glory&quot;, a daughter who has returned home to care for her dying father, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41222136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With the shadow of &quot;Gilead,&quot; it was hard to enthusiastically give HOME five stars. Oh the flawed star system! I should probably reread &quot;Gilead&quot; and see how the two truly complement one another, but the glaring difference to me is that &quot;Home&quot; is very much a straightforwa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29872865">more...</a>]]></body>
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