Home (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Audiobook

" This is my kind of book. A slow, quiet, but dense read. I love authors like Marilynne Robinson and Anita Brookner who concentrate on ordinary people, the mundane as well as the inner turmoil. Place also plays an important role. This kind of book is not for everyone. I want to listen to an NPR interview with the author to hear her talk about the religious aspect. "

" Good, solid writing, but it took me forever to get through this. It's slow and quiet (maybe too much at times) with good characterization. The ending paid off and felt satisfying, although the father's turn for the worst felt too quick as though Robinson thought, "I have to wrap this sucker up, and soon." "

" A third-person companion piece to "Gilead". The interplay between Jack and his sister Gloria is simultaneously heartbreaking and fascinating. "

" Exquisitely written. Very beautiful. Preferred it to Gilead, but both books are added to by the other. "

" So far not as good as Gilead, but that would be asking for a lot. Definitely not laundromat reading, but it was perfect for a long train ride. "

" Not my normal type of book...but for some reason I couldn't stop reading it. Glad I did. "

" More conflicted than Gilead, but then the characters are so. But just as lovely and moving. "

" Another wonderful book by Marilyn Robinson, but it requires a reader who doesn't care is the action is dignified and gentle. Also wonderful: Gilead. One of the great American novels. "

" Beautiful! I loved it. "

" Stylistically very similar to "Gilead", it's set in approximately the same time in the same place. A bit slow-moving, but beautifully written. "

" This book was so good. It was hard to put down and it carries such a deep story. This is a thinking book and it is so good. You can't really read it when you're exhausted though, because nothing will make sense. But this is one of those books you won't easily forget. "

" Beautifully crafted, but be prepared to read a series of descriptions that take place as if in suspended animation. I found this a lot harder to progress through than Gilead. "

" Home is where we are the best or worst versions of ourselves and get away with it. Where the collective memory defines us based on who we were as a child, not necessarily who we become as adults. Yet no matter how far from home we may go, the baggage stays with us. "

" A letdown after Gilead. Very slow going. "

" This book struggles with sin and redemption, love and grace, as tortured Jack Boughton returns to his ailing father, youngest sister, and the town of his disgraced childhood. "

" did not care for the style and the story was quite slow "

" Much better, in my opinion, than "Gilead." There is more movement / plot to this work. Really a thinking person's novel, however. "

" At once rending, moving, uplifting and profoundly human. Beautifully wrought. Robinson is a quiet master of her craft. "

" I liked this one better than Gilead, but I don't think I would have liked it as much if I hadn't read Gilead first. "

" Not as good as Gilead and I wish I had read it after, not before. It would have had more weight and I would have understood more, though inferring is good work. "

" Companion to Gilead, beautiful writing, very sad but with just enough hope in it. Deals with the Boughton family as Jack returns and tries to live with his father and sister. Asks good questions about sin, child-bearing, predestination. Great characterization. "

" Not as good as Gilead "

" I loved it. Addresses spiritual and "meaning of life" issues in a very genuine and interesting manner. "

" Simply put, this is a beautiful, sad book. As soon as I finished, I went to the library to take out another book of hers, Gilead. "

" This one is a lot better than Gilead, which is written about the same people and tells the same story, but focuses on different characters. "

" I made it over half way through and felt I can't go any further. With Jack going on about how bad he is and trying to understand his desire to continue to be bad. It just seems to me that it could all be said and done with in a shorter time. "

" I love the way Marilynne Robinson writes. She writes beautifully and honestly. Although Home has the same location and background story as Gilead, the feel of this novel is entirely different. Gilead left me with hope, and (warning: somewhat of a spoiler alert) Home left me unsettled and grieved. "

" Robinson does it again. Do yourself a favor and read a Marilynne Robinson novel next. "