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"Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup...Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game...Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and 'the waste of pain,' but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament, presided over by a passionate Jehovah with no Messiah in sight...A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration." -- -- Melvin Maddocks, Time --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This Book is Horrible.,
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This review is from: Pilgrim At Tinker Cr Classic Ed (Paperback)
I had to read this book for an AP class, i don't recommend it to anyone unless you like books with a complete absence of plot or content. I could not finish the book, no matter how hard i tried.
1.0 out of 5 stars
if you wanna read about nothing, this is your book,
By kiefer (NEW ORLEANS) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Hardcover)
English III AP just became a lot less interesting to me since being assigned this book. Often, people had compared Dillards style of writing to Thoreaus, of whom i am a fan. Thoreau, in his expository essay Civil Disobedience delivered a message not to be found elsewhere. So embarking upon Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, i found myself eager to begin. The first two chapters held my interest as Dillard put every day things into a new light. However, that is ALL she did throughout the whole book. Except, the deeper into the book you got, the more exotic the things became. She went from talking about what a penny means to a man to how a mantis lays eggs, how Eskimos skin people, to how a butterfly smells. Dillards book lacks a point. In 277 pages, she rambles on about nothing. It should be entitled the observer at tinker creek because all she did was observe. There is no interaction with humans, no dialogue (with the exception of the 5 pages where she talked to a snake), and no action. You can analyze the book to heaven, but reading it is a bore. i would only recomend this book to someone who lives in a Uni-bomber type environment who has nothing better to do than wait 2 hours to stare at nutrea than talk about it for 20 pages. PULITZER MEANS NOTHING
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THE WORST,
By Chief (NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pilgrim At Tinker Cr Classic Ed (Paperback)
What kind of book is this? A description of some grass needles, a tree and a praying mantis. You can analyze all the hidden meanings you want, but where now does that get you? Don't waste the time or money, Pulitzer means not a thing.
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