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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
What a wonderful small story with huge ideas. This book discusses immortality, death, family and love without ever being overwhelming or too dark. Each sentence makes you feel the heat, the loneliness, and the joy. This story truly makes life feel like such a gift.
Readers with an adventuring spirit and desire to see the world will identify with Winnie. Tuck Everlasting is a quick, easy read, but full of philosophical challenges, secrets, and round characters. It will sweep you away and make you think.
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Okay listen, I watched the movie ages ago and just now picked up the book on request from a friend. It was so brief without any depth that when I read the last page I wondered if I blacked out in the middle when exciting stuff happened.
I believe it to be an enchanting tale for 4th graders but I was underwhelmed.
I believe it to be an enchanting tale for 4th graders but I was underwhelmed.
It was quite an interesting book! I enjoyed reading it!
This is a simple story, with powerful messages, about life, and death, and the circle of the two, and how the choices we make impact our life.
The characters aren't too well developed, but they are likeable. I enjoyed the simplicity of this story.
Although as an adult reading this, I was slightly weirded out by Jesse's telling Winnie that he would marry her someday. She's 10, and he is 17, so that just seemed wrong to me.
The characters aren't too well developed, but they are likeable. I enjoyed the simplicity of this story.
Although as an adult reading this, I was slightly weirded out by Jesse's telling Winnie that he would marry her someday. She's 10, and he is 17, so that just seemed wrong to me.
It's probably been well over 20 years since I last read this book, but I must have read it a dozen times as a kid and even now, well into adulthood, I couldn't put it down and flew through it all in an couple of hours (if that). This book is absolutely beautiful, with a sort of sturdy, incandescent prose that brings both a sense of peace and sadness to the reader. I bought this copy to read with my daughter when she's ready, and I'm delighted to have it back on my shelf.
I first read Tuck Everlasting back in high school before the 2002 film came out as I didn't want the story ruined by a movie (I was just as stubborn back then). Other than a general sense of wonderment and enjoyment I didn't remember much about the book outside of the basic storyline. I was very glad this was the chosen book this month as it was super short, read it in one day on my T commute, and watched the 2002 film just before book group.
It's hard to say what part of the story was the best part as there was something so incredibly simple and yet fantastical/magical in both the story and Babbitt's writing. I definitely didn't realize when I first read it that the book was almost 30 years old! Originally published in 1975, it clearly stands the test of time and I thoroughly enjoyed this reread. Babbitt did an amazing job of simplifying and writing about a concept as complex and all-encompassing as immortality...
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
It's hard to say what part of the story was the best part as there was something so incredibly simple and yet fantastical/magical in both the story and Babbitt's writing. I definitely didn't realize when I first read it that the book was almost 30 years old! Originally published in 1975, it clearly stands the test of time and I thoroughly enjoyed this reread. Babbitt did an amazing job of simplifying and writing about a concept as complex and all-encompassing as immortality...
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.