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floryjac's review against another edition
4.0
Surprisingly enjoyable. It really made me think about how I would react if/when someone I loved was put into a bad situation healthwise.
wyemu's review against another edition
3.0
What do you do when the person you're no longer in love with suffers a paralysing injury? Break-up with them anyway and you become a heartless abandon-er; stay with them anyway and be miserable trying to fit into a life you didn't want even before the accident. Carrie is caught in just such a problem and with everyone around her telling her what she should do her instinct is to rebel. Moving to New York gives her the space and the freedom she was desperately craving but, unfortunately for Carrie, not all the strings to her home town are so easily cut. A thoughtful look at the decisions we are forced to make between personal happiness and doing what everyone else thinks is the right thing.
sarahbelwv's review against another edition
1.0
I've decided though that I'm not going to waste time anymore on books that are just plain tedious to read. No more finishing books out of duty. Life's too short to read boring books.
So the most recent casualty is The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer. I've been wanting to read this book for years. I've been trying for weeks now, and I haven't even managed to get through the first 70 pages. I read the back of the book again last night to see what it was that drew me to it in the first place, and I realized that I really don't give a damn anymore. I don't care what happens; I don't care if the guy comes out of his coma, I don't care if the girl leaves him. There's all these questions and I don't really care what the answers are anymore.
So the most recent casualty is The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer. I've been wanting to read this book for years. I've been trying for weeks now, and I haven't even managed to get through the first 70 pages. I read the back of the book again last night to see what it was that drew me to it in the first place, and I realized that I really don't give a damn anymore. I don't care what happens; I don't care if the guy comes out of his coma, I don't care if the girl leaves him. There's all these questions and I don't really care what the answers are anymore.
hellkitty915's review against another edition
2.0
This book could have been so much better. I really enjoyed the beginning of it and kept wondering how it would end. I wanted to see Carrie become a self-sufficient fashion designer in NYC. Instead, she is a victim of the Midwest and a classic martyr character. How pathetic.
jengiuffre's review against another edition
3.0
I started out thinking that I didn't want to read the book just by reading the cover, too heavy of a topic for me right now. But, then I found myself very curious about what would happen. I enjoyed the writing. I liked one of the themes running through it - about how we become so comfortable in our lives even when it might not be our passions. Very disappointed in the ending, sounds like it was altered for a movie theater ending.
amielizabeth's review against another edition
2.0
I'm not sure how I finished this, other than I really wanted to see if she stayed in NYC or went back home. Obnoxious heroine.
toniobarton's review against another edition
3.0
decisions and how to be yourself.
A young man becomes a paraplegic and his fiancee tries to figure out what to do (they were fighting before the accident). She runs away to New York only to find herself back home in Madison.
A young man becomes a paraplegic and his fiancee tries to figure out what to do (they were fighting before the accident). She runs away to New York only to find herself back home in Madison.