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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-06 09:51:32.
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great gothic read
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-18 11:13:45.
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I really enjoyed this! It was truly decadent goodness! Love her writing - I've never read a bad book by her!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-06 03:39:47.
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not as good as her later novels i liked it but maybe too deep....And hey no food or citrus trees.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-15 11:08:46.
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Gothic tale of murder,witchcraft and sexual perversions.I enjoyed it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-08-30 02:21:38.
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Not a bad novel, quite gripping and Gothic, but one of the main characters (I did not know when I began) is a child molester. So, if that bothers you (yes, it is central to the plot) you probably shouldn't read this book. Otherwise it's an interesting and mysterious novel.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-02 04:23:53.
(Language: English)
I'm just a bit disappointed with the ending.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-12 01:16:22.
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Moderately entertaining, but flawed. Would never have been published if she hadn't become famous.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-12 04:53:21.
(Language: English)
This book was terrible. It makes my skin crawl to think that I actually finished it. Every chapter was written in a different voice, but there was no indication of who was talking. Ugh. I'm over it. This book was terrible.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-22 05:58:24.
(Language: English)
The darker side of Victorian life - this books has it all sex, drugs and murder
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-07 11:07:14.
(Language: English)
Is no where near as good as her other books! Couldn't finish it....
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-02-25 01:52:05.
(Language: English)
One of Joanne Harris's first novels. This story depicts the life of a young sheltered girl prized for her beauty and so is married and caged by it. Through meeting a series of interesting and dangerous people she is eventually set free.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-15 02:21:20.
(Language: English)
Really great book
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-06 03:34:03.
(Language: English)
I bought this as a last minute read in Manchester airport & I'm really glad I did. I'm not a huge Joanne Harris fan, I've read a couple of her later novels and although they were good this one really had me gripped. Even lying next to the pool in Spain it sent a chill through me and I look forward to reading it again on a cold winters night and doing it real justice!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-08 01:19:45.
(Language: English)
If I hadn't started listening to it as a talking book on a plane, I probably wouldn't have picked it up... I missed the end as the plane landed, and had Dymocks order it in for me. I'm glad I did!Sleep, Pale Sister is quite gothic, but I found it intriguing. This was Joanne Harris' first book - years before she was made popular through Chocolat. Apparently it's only just come back into print. I'd recommend this book if you're into a bit of underhanded gothic thrill!
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Peter posted a review at 2007-10-01 06:45:58.
(Language: English)
A darkly gothic tale indeed, engaging and provocative in parts if certainly not without its flaws. Those flaws mainly comprising of two and, when the book gets one of those right it seems to go awry with the other. The constant switching of narrators between the four main characters can create a rather dislocating experience and make it difficult to really connect with any of them. Then, particularly with the unnecessarily drawn out ending, when it does linger on any one voice for long enough it just gets a bit too heavy-handed. Stylish, but certainly not subtle. Still a very decent read though and, of course, an early work so I can but wonder how it might have come out were it written later by a more experienced hand.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-21 12:50:40.
(Language: English)
Bought on a whim at the airport.Very different to what I am use to from Joanne Harris. Hard read. Some bits were Ok and some really hard going.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-13 01:04:13.
(Language: English)
I really thought that this novel over complicated itself by having such a convuoluted narrative. Also it tried too hard to identify itself within the Gothic genre with annoying repititions of the words Opuim and Laudenum as if this how compensated for the author's lack of descriptive ability. A real disappointment after the delight of Chocolat.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-28 08:29:43.
(Language: English)
Не е лоша. По-различна е от обичайните сюжети на Харис. На моменти е доста страшничка, аз глледах да я чета само по светло. :)
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-04 10:20:39.
(Language: English)
I have read most of Joanne Harris' books and wanted to like this one... but didn't. While atmospheric, I didn't care about any of the characters enough, not even poor, abused litte Effie.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-14 09:27:22.
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Eerie and dreamy and very goth. I felt drugged while reading.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-06 01:08:50.
(Language: English)
Not the charming masterpiece that Choclat is, but this book is much more raw. Its power is more primal and readers will find that Harris wasn't as polished a writer in this book as she becomes later. However, the book is a great read and if you are able to find it in America (very difficult for me)then you should look over it. It is very compelling.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-06 02:19:57.
(Language: English)
not bad if a little dark and typically strange. failed to hold my attention in the way that some of her other books did
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-08-14 06:17:26.
(Language: English)
This was so different than Chocolat. Except the maid is always serving Effie hot chocolate with her meals. hehe. This is a very dreamlike dark gothic novel. I love the constant switch between characters. Sometimes I would get through half a page and realize it was from the point of view of someone other than who I thought. Confusing, but I think she did that on purpose maybe! I read this while very depressed and sleeping a lot. It felt nice to read something dark while I was feeling dark. But supreme writing by Joanne Harris, regardless of the topic. I love her.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-07 09:52:44.
(Language: English)
Not just a ghostly story... a peer into the silent lives of this era's women and the men that they survive. And do not survive. Incredibly well written and subtle in the utmost creepy way. Brilliant.
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