What courage! What honesty from this author!

ONe of the best books I have ever read.

a very different book, but appeals to many types of people. Highly recommend

This book was so interesting--I live in the middle class midwest in America, and it is so hard to fathom what women live like in the rest of the world.

I really can't belive people are taken in by this stuff!! The only person who this works for is the author--because everyone who buys this book (I borrowed it from the library) contributes to the gold mine. The only reason to read it is to help others see the stupidity of this thinking

I really enjoyed this book. Polly, the main character, was a very real person, with some very real problems, but she learns to deal with them in the end. "Grows up" so to speak. A thoughtful book.

Very bleak, very dull. Maybe would have made a good short story, but not a whole book!!

Interesting way of weaving the plot with "Gatsby".

I was really nauseated by this book. Too obviously sappy. Too obviously trying to play on emotions. What a ridiculous, made-up way to think about heaven. Who wants their life distilled to five relationships? And who decides who these five most important ones are!! Stupid, stupid stupid.

I loved this book. Emotional, but not sappy.

It will take your breath away. Would not recommend reading in public. You will laugh and cry out loud. Characters are well drawn. You love them all.

I am in the medical profession, so I thought this book was particularly good at showing how a medical diagnosis can really affect a family. Interesting character development.

I can see why teens get sucked into this sort of thing. By the 4th or 5th description of how beautiful Edward is I was "like, I get it!" Don't bother if you are aserious reader. Unfortunately, my book club wanted to read it because it was popular. I will say it kept my interest, but by the end I was pretty revolted by the whole thing.

I loved this book. I learned much about the occupation of Guernsey which I did not know. I really grew to like the literary genre of letters--took a bit to get into it but it was really a wonderful way to tell a story.

I couldn't get very far into this book as there was crass language in about every paragraph. I think the author is hiding behind this shock trick to disguise poor writing. Disappointing--it promised to be a good story.

Tolkien is brilliant! I love this book.

I will say up front that I am not a "vampire book" person, so this was better than I expected, that is why it got two stars instead of 1. I liked that it gave a "reason" that there are vampires in the first place and a mechanism for their creation, etc, etc. The book was sooooooo darn long, though. It went on and on and on about things that were really irrelevant. So, well written, but I hated the story. Not nearly as stupid as the Twilight series. I suppose there are good themes to talk about at a book club but you could have a much better book than a vampire one to have the same discussion.

Wow. Awful. The characters were horrible people--selfish, stupid. The writing was OK, but I think he was trying to be Hemigway-esque and not succeding very well (writing in short choppy dialogue with no quotation marks). I only finished it to see if there was any redemption at the end. Really, don't read it. I wish I had not.