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O Grande Círculo by Maggie Shipstead

118 reviews

bonz_authorshipdown's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

This book is honestly one of the best I’ve ever read. The blurb and the summaries do not fully explain what you will go through reading this, the entire explanation of Marian’s parents, then her childhood, the characters of Jamie and Caleb, all of it is a perfect illustration of her story.
The story of Hadley echoes this too, all that surrounds her and her personality is also wonderful, showing sides of modern people not often reflected in a way that Maggie writes them.
Marians love of flying, her growing up, girlhood, her marriage, her love and her sexuality is all explored incredibly, and I would really recommend this to ANYBODY.

An absolute work of art. A wonderful book, thank you.

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tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

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I need to put an indefinite pause on reading non-genre adult fiction by mainstream authors from mainstream publishers. Even the most reputedly "groundbreaking" among them have a resigned conventionality that just... exhausts me, and much of their so-called novelty is authors retreading old ground while trying to one-up each other in how "edgy" they can be.

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andrewspink's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

In general, I've never really understood the attraction of the romance of flying in the early stages of the industry. This book changed that for me. It makes much more sense now; the story gave some good insights into what it must have been like at that time. I enjoyed the way that the Marion's character developed along with the development of aviation, and the plot had sufficient twists and surprises right until the end. It was indeed a long road to the end, with a large page count. The book was well enough written that that wasn't such a problem for me, but, like many other reviewers, I found the 20th century sections less good and don't think the book would have been worse if they had been omitted. I guess the idea was to show how a contemporary view of someone from the last century is inevitably distorted and partial (perhaps, especially a Hollywood film), but I'm not sure if it entirely succeeded in that, perhaps because the actress was (imho) rather an irritating character.
Nevertheless, it was a book I really enjoyed, both for the plot and for the diversity of the characters.

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jj_99's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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dorothygrace's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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karingforbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

The premise is interesting and what parts focused on the circumnavigation were fascinating and enjoyable. But the author jumps around a lot and I’m not sure what the point of Hadley was. She felt superfluous since we had all the other info through Marian anyway. Also the focus on sex and relationships drove me up the wall. Every other page there was a reference to or discussion of sex that was unnecessary and added nothing. I think if this were 300 pages it would have been much better

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