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Mar 17, 2009 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-reads

This was a wonderful book. It is difficult for me to describe without giving away some of the story. About disappointment and possiblities and love; about looking inside yourself and finding something unexpected.

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Nov 23, 2013 Joanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: passport, audiobooks, 2016-read, rws-2016-winter

I should have a shelf for epilogues that have no place being a part of a book. I loved the characters. I loved the melodrama -- the operatic scope of this novel. Of course it wasn't realistic, but it didn't have to be. The mixing of the characters, the Stockholm syndrome of the hostages, the practically Utopian society that developed -- all of it was acceptable because the characters felt alive. I even accepted the real ending.

But the epilogue was almost enough to wreck the book. I hated it so ...more

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Jul 19, 2008 Tanya rated it it was amazing

Shelves: home_library, book_club

This book actually made me cry, which is not an easy thing to do.

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Oct 07, 2009 Erin (NY) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own, book-club, rory-gilmore-list, read-in-2011, my-bookclub-pick

This was a book that I picked for my book club, because I heard that the book was great, well-written, and thought-provoking. I have to say, the book did not disappoint. Even though there is not much going on after the beginning, I was captured by the book and couldn't put it down.

I though that the relationships in this book were done beautifully. Both of the principal relationships were well-developed and believable. There were so many passages that I thought conveyed the message very effective ...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Sarah rated it it was amazing

You have to just go along with it quite a bit as the outside world reaction or lack thereof seems unrealistic, but if you can let it go a beautiful story will unfold. And it's funny too, tragicomic but beautiful. I'd love to see it made into a movie. ...more

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Jul 23, 2008 Mary Beth rated it really liked it

A story about a group of people and the bonds they make when held hostage by guerillas. There is a surprise ending about which I am not sure I am pleased, but it truly fits the story and the characters.

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