Latest 6 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the Three Junes
"I gave it one star because I couldn't give it less"
2009-08-24
- Reviewed By User: A3IRLFJBNEYQN
Characters were so one dimensional. If someone was "good" they were so good they seemed afflicted. The "bad" people were all exactly the same. The only character that I liked was the parrot. Has Ms Glass never heard that we readers hate, hate, hate when a new character is introduced in the last chapter?
The lady who picked this for book club ended up quiting, she felt we were narrow minded and homophobic. Out of twelve of us only a couple thought it was okay.
If you have trouble sleeping this is the book for you, it will put you right out...like a light.
Horribly disjointed and disappointing, with a few well written paragraphs buried in lifeless minutia - details you never wondered about or cared to know.
Glass compared her novel "to a medieval altarpiece in which a "central panel--be it a picture of the annunciation, the crucifixion, or a martyrdom--is flanked by panels depicting portraits of the altarpiece donors.." Ha! Sounds a bit arrogant, doesn't it?
She obviously thinks her novel is a work of art and worthy of being compared to such. She obviously has an exaggerated sense of her own importance.
My first book by Julia glass and my LAST.
"Flashbacks!"
2009-07-16
- Reviewed By User: A2SY8L0SEJGEUK
I purchased this book after reading a sample so I should have gotten something I would enjoy. Unfortunately, it wasn't til I got the full version that the shifting back and forth in time and then back and forth in generations started. I suffered through a third of this book and then gave up. Too hard to follow and not enough in the story to put up with the changing back and forth for me to want to continue. It is now in archive and incompletely read.
"interesting to read"
2009-02-17
- Reviewed By User: ADUVXBARTQG8K
this book toke a while before it got me. But then i could not put it down. Love the way it is written
"Good Book Club Discussion, A Bit Too Wordy At Times"
2008-11-21
- Reviewed By User: A427LUH38C3Y3
Ironically, before our book club had our official meeting for this read, everyone complained about it's complexity; however, after the meeting we all agreed that Three Junes provided us a bounty of discussion. Personally, I found it to be wordy at times rendering it difficult to digest. (An English Major in college yet I felt there were times when I had to "plod" through it.) The flashback sequences were distracting at times and many of the plot line issues seemed to be unresolved...e.g. Fern's purpose seemed unclear to us; we desired more information regarding Paul and Maureen's marriage or lack thereof, etc.
I didn't really embrace any of the characters in this book. I found Fenno especially annoying and for the most part, aloof and too self-directed. However, his actions in Mal's death scene I found particularly poignant. It certainly is worth the read, but won't be for everyone.
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"I gave it one star because I couldn't give it less"
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"Flashbacks!"
"Good Book Club Discussion, A Bit Too Wordy At Times"