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Saving Fish from Drowning (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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few weeks ago
A strange entertaining story, interesting characters, but not my favorite read.
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few weeks ago
I wanted to finish this, but i put it down and couldn't bring myself to pick it back up again. Too many "Laverne and Shirley moments" of knowing something awful is going to happen to ignorant people, and then watching it happen. I hope it got better near the end. I just wimped out and couldn't get there.
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few weeks ago
This is such a great book! I traveled to Burma through this book, looked over my maps, googled Burma and IDP's, Checked out THE LADY and so much more!! I got really involved and I guess this at one point was Tan's purpose. My favorite book by TAN is The Bone Setter's Daughter...but Saving Fish From Drowning is right next to it! I LOVED...more
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few weeks ago
I've enjoyed other works by this author, so when it started out slow I kept thinking "be patient." By the time I had given up on the book I was almost finished so I went on out of obligation. It's not a bad book, but I didn't enjoy it. I found it difficult to keep track of the characters throughout the first half of the book. Despite being on a tour of Burma, there isn't much character...more
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few weeks ago
After reading the jacket flap, I had low expectations for this book. The flap summary made it sound like a traditional mystery novel - not at all Amy Tan's style. In fact, the entire book is written from the first person omniscient perspective of the narrator, a chinese art dealer in san francisco who dies mysteriously before the story begins. Throughout the book the reader is given...more
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few weeks ago
If this had been Amy Tan's first novel, she certainly wouldn't be around very long afterwards. This is a bloated, horrendous mound of storytelling that belongs in a relegated position on Lifetime at three AM on Tuesday morning. The characters are either stereotyped or boring, and the plot is stuck in a rut after the first chapter. By the time the characters are rescued, I had very much stopped...more
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few weeks ago
Not for a long time has a book made me laugh like this one. What a great idea that Amy Tan decided to have an omniscient narrator narrating her book. Too bad like with many books, I did not like the ending. It seemed a bit sophomoric and did not do the characters she had created credit. I did not expect the characters to end up the way they did in the end. It was almost like Tan was trying to...more
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few weeks ago
Bibi Chen, a purveyor of Asian art in San Francisco, dies right before leaving to take a group of people on a tour of China and Myanmar (Burma). As a recently deceased person, she becomes the omniscient narrator of this wonderful novel, and she watches as the group decides to do the trip without her and nominates someone else as leader. The ghost of Bibi goes along on the trip and chats to the...more
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few weeks ago
I love Amy Tan books. I thought I was really going to like this book. But I just couldn't get through it. Too many people to keep straight. I got about halfway through and I just couldn't pick it up again. It just bored me. And the people had not even gone missing yet.
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few weeks ago
I had a hard time with the beginning--exposition of the book and ending--summary of the book-I just kept plugging along......because at that book the book was not holding my interest-but I really liked the inbetween---once I was introduced to the characters and their unique, funny and odd characteristics the story really came to life for me. I felt the theme of...more
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  • ISBN-10: 078627378X
  • ISBN-13: 9780786273782
  • ISBN-10: 034546401X
  • ISBN-13: 9780345464019
  • ISBN-10: 1594131627
  • ISBN-13: 9781594131622
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