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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400108213
Format: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
ISBN: 1400108217
Label: Tantor Media
Manufacturer: Tantor Media
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: August 01, 2008
Publisher: Tantor Media
Sales Rank: 1221827
Studio: Tantor Media
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Since the publication of Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, Rita Mae Brown has been a major American literary voice and a bestselling author. In The Sand Castle, she revisits some of her most unforgettable characters: sisters Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmeir, and Juts's precocious young daughter, Nickel.
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The best thing I can say about "The Sand Castle" is that it's a quick read. Other reviewers have recapped the story (what there is of it), so I won't go into that; I'll just say this: if you were a fan of "Six of One" and "Bingo", you should definitely skip this one. Other than the fact that the characters have the same names and more or less the same personalities, there's really no continuity at all between this prequel and the earlier "Runnymede" novels. (Same thing could be said about "Loose ... Read More
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Remember Seinfeld, a show about nothing. The Sand Castle is a book about nothing. A complete bore, with a brief lame epilogue explaining what happened to Nickel and Leroy in the coming years. Also, why did Leroy call his grandmother Aunt Louise (Wheezie)? Didn't make sense. The best thing about this book...it was short.
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After Loose Lips, I swore I would never pay good money for a book about Juts and Wheezy from Rita Mae Brown again. Luckily I didn't have to, a friend brought me this one while I was in bed sick to cheer me up.
And yet again the she has taken characters that were well established, well written, and well loved from Six of One and Bingo and totally made different people from them. How hard can it be to go back, reread a book that YOU wrote and check on what Louise's daughters' name was and ... Read More
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I'm a huge fan of Rita Mae Brown, owning every single book she has ever written, and an even bigger fan of Juts and Wheezy, first introduced in Six of One (her best, in my opinion). Upon seeing The Sand Castle release, I was thrilled to, yet again, visit the Hunsenmeier sisters and their vibrant, entertaining dialogue.
Needless to say, it wasn't a pleasant visit. While Brown still has the witty repartee she is so well known for, the storyline is thin, and the book is too - literally! Only 100 ... Read More
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This is just another author's attempt to wring every last penny of revenue out of characters that were once vibrant and interesting, but which are now tired stereotypes. Wheezie is a caricature of a Catholic (by now we know that Brown holds in contempt those who attend church and adhere to a particular faith); Juts is a fearless, cigarette-smoking mom (who takes care to warn her 7 year old daughter of the dangers of smoking, even as she lets her take a puff).
The most horrendous part of the ... Read More
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