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The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)

by Barbara Kingsolver

La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. (read review)

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Liked It

5 of 5 members found this review helpful.
jill_elvish
  • Rated 5 stars

“The Poisonwood Bible is for everyone who's ever wished the whole planet were white-skinned and Christian and holding democratic elections, and sincerely believed that this would solve all of everybody's problems. For everyone who's ever thought that we rich nations have everything to teach developing nations and nothing to learn from them. For everyone who doesn't know why women can't "just leave" the Nathan Prices of this world. For every woman who's tried to save her children from...”

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Didn’t Like It

JONATHAN O
  • Rated 1 stars

“During the process of reading the novel, I found myself enjoying very little of it, and overall questioning it very much. The story is very convoluted, and I won't do the story any justice by recounting it here. What I will say, however, is that Barbara Kingsolver presents a few elements in the novel which, if used better, could have been effective, and although I see what she was going for, it essentially ends up being sanctimonious, pretentious trash. Through the novel, she discusses...”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.263746 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.111111 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “you know, i will never teach the world to sing, or even buy them all a Coke (as questionable as that seems all these years later), but if i could get every American to read this book, To Kill a Mockingbird and All Quiet on the Western Front, I would be a very useful person!”

    posted Monday, June 23 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • abu r

    abu r said:

    “انصح بهذا الكتاب لكل اسره وكل من هو مللك مملكته”

    posted Friday, June 20 2008
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “OKAY, maybe this is a middle school student, but cant they even bother to read a commnet or a review or two? I am so furious at these really lame questions!!!

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    posted Wednesday, April 16 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Arta S

    arta s said:

    “I never saw this book but maybe i will read it!”

    posted Sunday, April 13 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Sidney B

    sidney b said:

    “I love that book! Oh, AP English.”

    posted Thursday, April 10 2008
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