Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The Prince of TIdes

What a wonderful book.

I finally finished reading it this past weekend. And have thought about it every day since. I'm feeling a little sad that I don't get to spend any more time with Savannah, Luke or Tom. I miss Mr. Fruit, Tolitha and Grandpa Wingo.

This book took me a long time to read. Probably longer than it should have. But it was a book that I wanted to savor, to enjoy the finely tuned language in the capable hands of Pat Conroy.

And it is actually over 600 pages. But it told such an amazing story full of so much heart and so many characters, and each character was fully explored, fully embraced by both the author and the reader. Through his eyes, I fell in love with all the people in the story as if they were personal family or friends of mine.

This hasn't happened to be in a very long time. I was given another Conroy book, Beach Music by a fellow writer in my writing group that I'll be tearing into as soon as I possibly can.

Often it seems the story overtakes the language but this book is a beautiful marriage of poetic beauty and a wholly engrossing story.

Pick it up immediately.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, I love love love the Prince of Tides - I'm so glad you got to read it! And now, yes - Beach Music - IMMEDIATELY! I insist, LOL.

Audrey said...

Beach Music is a good one. Even Dave liked it and he doesn't read books unless they're about the internet and/or marketing.

Anonymous said...

I loved Prince of Tides. I should read it again.

I just looked at your website for the first time. It is kick ass. How the heck did you get a website like that? I am in awe.

I am going to work on what we talked about at Borders. I am inspired now. Thanks for your ideas. You have no idea how nice it is to hear something positive about jobs and such, for a change.

Ahh. Now, off to the Olive Garden.

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