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2.0�toiles sur 5 Sorry but I disagree..., Juil 1 2002

Par	Leigh Munro (LONDON United Kingdom) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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I am going to be the lone voice in the wilderness... I could not get into this book, could not make it past the first thirty pages. The narrative voice rambles from first person to third person, often it is not clear what is going on... I think this is a challenging book and most certainly is not a novel for somebody who is looking for a light read.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Life changing, Janv. 28 2002

Par	Erin (San Francisco) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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This book is both beautiful and devestating. It is lyric and direct. Heart wrneching and hopeful. This book is contradictory and yet realistic in its contradictions. This book absolutely changed the way I read, and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Pull out the kleenex, though.

A friend of mine recommended this book to me in 1996. In the past six years I have come back to it time and again for its sheer beauty. This is not one to miss.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Unconditional, F�v 23 2001

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There is an event in this book that demonstrates the wonderful manner that John Berger consistently illuminates his readers, and his characters. The task in and of itself is of no great note; a small boat is guided from the shore to a small island. Gino who is taking his reluctant fianc� on the trip guides the boat. Ninon is not concerned about the trip rather Gino's insistence that they marry. The trip to the island is accomplished in several steps to allow for currents both known and unpredictable. When the crossing is accomplished and Ninon continues to question the point of the exercise, Gino explains it has nothing to do with the island as a destination, but the trip that illustrates, "how we're going to live".

The couple decides to marry but before they do human weakness steps in and irrevocably alters the future they had planed. Neither conventional wisdom nor anyone who knows either member of the couple believes the wedding should take place. The bride to be is amongst those who wish to see the union forever cancelled. Gino is the only person willing to see through what his love for this woman has become for him, a commitment without condition.

The Author surrounds this couple with all the variants of marriage. He includes the innocent moments that lead to the first shared intimacies, and he has the unions that have failed to overcome the difficulties they encountered. Throughout this process he forces the reader to make some difficult observations either personally or through a given character they may identify with. The Wedding that is supposed to take place is like a vortex drawing all the participants and observers to the main event, the core. When all the players have made their own journeys, Gino is no longer the odd man out. He has come to define an ideal; he has always known what is right and what the consequences would be.

A cynic might question Gino based upon the issue of time, however this would be an error. Time firstly is an artificial human construct, and even if used as a measure we know nothing about its allotment to each of us, not what will transpire during our portion. Gino does not suffer from the arrogance of presumption of time and its length. And the Author John Berger must understand this as well, for no one could communicate this more clearly, and with the contemporary relevance than he does, if it wasn't his own philosophy as well.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 a life enhancing book
It has now been several years since I read this book, and it still haunts me with its beauty and wisdom. Read more

Publi� le Mars 5 2000 par Robert Spencer

5.0�toiles sur 5 A tender masterpiece
Better known as a latter day Marxist art critic, Berger has always balanced a social conscience with an extraordinary eye for the beautiful. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 23 2000 par tksc

5.0�toiles sur 5 A Positive Sadness
One of the best novels about the sickness and how it changes us and the others. A marvelous 'love-life-death-pain' story that begins as a trip that unfortunately has to end...

Publi� le D�c 22 1999 par Roberto Enriquez

5.0�toiles sur 5 a well-remembered favorite
It has been years since I read this book, but it is a work that I will always hold dear and continually recommend. Read more

Publi� le Jui 11 1999

5.0�toiles sur 5 Heartbreaking Work of Lyrical Beauty
I too recommend this book to all my friends. Most have told me they've cried at its ending (and most of my friends are jaded seen-it-all literary types in mottled turtlenecks and... Read more

Publi� le Mai 25 1999

5.0�toiles sur 5 A remarkable book, great in its simplicity
I love this book and recommend it to all of my friends, no matter what their tastes are. "To the Wedding" is intimate and yet epic in spirit. what Mr. Read more

Publi� le Avril 7 1999

5.0�toiles sur 5 Hoffnungslos Pessimismus
This book is orthogonal to Berger's trilogy where, in the face of evidence to the contrary, one could still have hope. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 21 1999 par Professor Joseph L. McCauley

5.0�toiles sur 5 'How Love Survives on Love Alone'
This is one of those jewels that, by itself, make learning to read the most important thing we learned, and having a heart the most profound gift we were ever given. Read more

Publi� le Ao� 5 1998 par Juan Mobili

5.0�toiles sur 5 Extraordinary and stunning, it will make you cry.
In this world we all live in, with all it's problems which also may become our problems I think there are too few books like this. Read more

Publi� le Ao� 2 1997

5.0�toiles sur 5 an acutely poignant book about sorrow and loss
John Berger's to The Wedding traces a poetic and delicate path, elliptically circling round an initially undefinable story; the reader has to stick with it to find the many ways... Read more

Publi� le Ao� 2 1997

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