Angelika F. (READ-LEARN-LAUGH) reviewed on 4/21/2009 + 21 more book reviews

I was so looking forward to this book ,After all whats not to love character,mythology of a mythical place with a mythical history an Oprah book. Well I gave this book 90 pages to develop into something other than what appears to be an attempt at a story under the influence of some very heavy psychotropics (LSD)comes to mind.Maybe its me but when I read for pleasure I want a story not a fable(Heck I will take a good fable over this delusion) Hey I will even love the book if it happens to make me think ,cry or say something of the human condition. Unless you like lyrical s about a girl eating dirt ,gypsies making one man so weak that he ignores his children (Yes I did enjoy the first 15 or so pages)I guess my major complaint besides the convoluted writing -I felt blind sided by the description what I expected and what it truly is are different things. So be warned this is not an enchanting history of a make believe village-or maybe it is hidden behind a curtain of drug induced writing.

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