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I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place (2013)

by Howard Norman(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547385420 (ISBN13: 9780547385426)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: I had read good things about this book, and thought I'd read it. I really enjoyed about the first 3rd, liked the writing, liked the story. The author tells about his youth, but skips quickly to his 20's. And after reading a bit about his first love, and how he got started writing about birds, it was still interesting. But somewhere along the 20th time he mooned over his lost love, the story kind of changed for me. Great blanks were left between happenings, the writing got a bit dry, I just couldn't keep interested in the book. Got to be an itinerary and not anything to keep my interested.
review 2: Howard Norman is an awesome memoir writer. I was totally wrapped up in whatever he was writing about at the time: his mis-adventures as a 15-year-old, observ... moreing birds in all their glory, bidding at an auction for an art print when he has no money, sparring with his brother (hooo-yeee: his brother provides more than enough fodder for a separate book!), interacting with the Inuit people, and coping with catastrophes. The title comes from an Inuit legend of a man who turns into a goose, and his migration song is, "I hate to leave this beautiful place." I felt that way at the end of the book. less

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