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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Surprise, Jun 3 2002
By A Customer
I purchased this book because I enjoyed Chocolat so much. At first the book was hard to get into, each chapter jumps from present day to 20 years into the past and than back again. The main character was hard for me to like at first. But after the first few chapters that drag, the main character moves from London to a small village in France and the story takes off from there. It was very enjoyable good-good story and like most stories, ended all too soon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute gem., May 28 2002
By Andy Gregory (Cleveland England) - See all my reviews
The work of genius has been said to be 'that which can enchant a child yet move the most worldly of men to tears.' I probably don't need to say more than that to recommend this book.It is such a gem.I'm usually very picky about what I read and virtually NEVER finish reading most fictional works as they fail to engage my interest. This book had me enthralled from the moment I read the first page; I read it all in one morning and then more thoughtfully over the next couple of days. I have just finished reading it a third time.What is so enthralling about it you may ask.The book is written from the viewpoint of a vintage bottle of wine that just happens to be the same age as the main character, Jay. (Yes I'm sure you can now guess what happens right at the end.) The intense emotional saga of Jay throughout the book is neatly counterpointed by the 'character' of the bottle of wine (memories of long-remembered past summers, suppressed, changed and matured by years of 'confinement'.)The relationship between Jay and 'Jackapple Joe' will strike a chord with anyone who remembers a special childhood relationship with an old person - in particular the way the child takes everything for granted and regrets this years later when it is too late to remedy.In the book Jay is given a magical second chance with Joe (I won't spoil things for potential readers by saying how, or whether he is successful.) There are various other subtle and clever themes woven into this tale, which on a first reading appear perhaps disconnected from the more central ones. I appreciated the unity of the entire book by reading it again.Any review of an excellent work obviously does not do either the work itself or the author justice. I apologise for this. You will miss out if you do not taste 'Blackberry Wine'.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Message in a Bottle, May 27 2002
Having read Chocolat, I realized Harris is a kindred spirit...the sci-fi, the food, the memories, the spirituality. So I picked up Blackberry Wine in a blythe mood, and read it in less than two days. I really didn't want it to end: Jay, the hero, had a tumultuous coming of age in mystical setting with an old crank Joe as the teacher-wizard, with his incantations, his fantastical seeds, his potions (wines). The story flashes back and forth between these idyllic summers and Jay's deflated present of 1999, as a burned out writer who throve on the memory of those same summers. He cracks open Joe's old '75 wines and Joe is brought back, verily a genie from a bottle, as Jay's muse, and an adventure living in the village of Lansquenet ensues. The story stirred me on many levels, particularly the gilded, bittersweet summers as a young teen, that we all wish we could bottle and save like the Specials, to re-open and re-immerse ourselves in again. A great read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It Stays With You
It has been over two months since I read this book and I think of it alot. It has such vivid passages that I feel as though if I stumbled upon Joe's house in the real world I... Read more
Published on May 23 2002 by Jeanne Cumby

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, but I had very high expectations
As a big fan of Joanne Harris, I was excited to read Blackberry Wine. Maybe I just could not relate to Jay or to Joe the mysterious ghostly gardener. Read more
Published on April 18 2002 by A. Alcott

3.0 out of 5 stars It's not chocolat
After Chocolat, I suppose I should have expected a let down. The plot was good - the young writer dropping everything and going to France, his traumatic learning experiences... Read more
Published on April 1 2002 by L. Paris

2.0 out of 5 stars perhaps.....
Perhaps Joanne Harris had a hard time identifying with a male perspective. Perhaps the only topic she knows is the magical and medicinal attributes of herbs and plants. Read more
Published on Mar 31 2002 by Kelly A. Eucher

4.0 out of 5 stars An intoxicating read
Retaining the atmospheric intensity of Chocolat, Joanne Harris creates another tale which cleverly interweaves the childhood
and new life of Jay Mackintosh, a one-novel wonder... Read more
Published on Mar 19 2002 by johnewark

4.0 out of 5 stars On the way back to my childhood
If you liked Chocolate, then read Blackberry wine just to find out what happened to your favourite characters after Vianne had left the villige. Read more
Published on Mar 12 2002 by trikolka

4.0 out of 5 stars A Magical Vintage
An intoxicating tale of Jay Mackintosh who escapes his mundane life in London amidst the pretentious world of literary launches, bored journalists and cheap champagne to a... Read more
Published on Feb 25 2002 by capricornlady

2.0 out of 5 stars Fomulaeic
This was a choice of my bookclub so I dutifully plowed my way through it. My main beef with this novel is how totally cliched her characters are - especially the minor ones - the... Read more
Published on Feb 12 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars No sparkle in this wine...
A bought this on a friend's recommendation and was excited about reading it. I hadn't read Harris' first book Chocolat, but I enjoyed the movie. Read more
Published on Jan 11 2002 by Porter Crane

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Blackberry Wine
Joanne Harris's Blackberry Wine is a beautifully and magically writeen story. Lansquenet is described as such a fantastic, ideal place, Harris makes the reader want to jump in... Read more
Published on Dec 29 2001 by Denton Loving

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