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Elaine Kasteler
Mar 07, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I have read many books lately that are a series of short stories with so many characters to keep track of. "Message from the Goon Squad" was the first, "The Tiger's Wife" was the second and now "Let the Great World Spin".

I do believe the world continually spins regardless of our lives and how we are intertwined together. In reality, we are all interconnected and humans do touch each others lives regardless of our situations.

New York was a perfect place for this book to play out and I also like
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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
And, finally, my favorite read of the week, the month, maybe the year...Let the Great World Spin. I wish I was a deeper reader and a better writer, a person who could share with you all the wonderful thoughts you can take away from this book and all the brilliant ways the author used the metaphor of the wirewalker, stepping out over the slums and magnificent high rises of 1974 New York City, stepping out over the sad group of mothers who lost sons in Vietnam and the streetwalkers, stepping out o ...more
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Sep 06, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Jan 03, 2013 marked it as to-read
Snowtulip
Apr 11, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Apr 06, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 15, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Kathy
Jan 21, 2021 rated it it was amazing
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