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 enlarge | Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 225
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0670018856
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670018857
ASIN: 0670018856
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 wonderful book August 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Light, fun summer reading. Green's style is very intimate. I felt as though she was sitting across the table from me and telling me the details of her characters lives. And what characters they are. Motivation is something that always look for. Many times it's hard to find. But here the characters' actions and feelings make sense.
An Easy Read August 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
An easy read with nothing too mind straining, but totally enjoying. Holds your interest while not taxing the brain.
The Beach House August 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Read this on the beach. Loved it. Kept picturing Diane Keaton as main character.
 disappointing August 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a white, upper middle class, female 30- or 40-something from New England who is going through a divorce, this book may be cathartic for you. However, if you fit another demographic group, this book is probably a waste of money and time. If you can stick with it past the halfway point, it is somewhat more readable (but not great). The stream of consciousness style combined with omniscient narrator style (sometimes both in the same paragraph!)is annoying , as are all the run on sentences and bad punctuation/typos (plurals where she means possessive), etc. But primarily it's simply unpleasant to read all the whining and soul searching of every character in the book as white upper middle class marriage after marriage breaks up, combined with the absence of action (other than to pack up and travel to the beach house). A much better use of your energy would be Anita Diamant's "Last Days of Dogtown" or "Red Tent." Chick books too (although my husband also likes them), but extremely well written and researched. Diamant's fluid and lovely writing style, historical perspective, thoughtful observations, action, and the interaction between characters is gripping.
The Beach House by Jane Green August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very entertaining, though somewhat predictable. Great light summer read. Made me want to visit Nantucket. Enjoyable.
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