The Maytrees Audiobook

" I feel guilty not liking this book but such a prominent and well-loved author, but it didn't do anything for me, except make me want to walk the dunes of Cape Cod. "

" Some books you love the plot, some the characters, some the writing style. This book had a lovely style. Some parts of it were so rich - I couldn't help but marvel at how they were written. A lovely book. "

" Beautifully written. A new favorite. "

" dillard writes well, which makes the novel slow moving. the vocabulary etc. is high end and adds to the beauty of the writing, but may take away from enjoyment for some who don't have patience. "

" classic Annie Dillard, fiction-style. A reflective book, with the feeling you know intimate thoughts of the characters. Story is told through characters reflections on events, rather than a report of the events. Beautiful. "

" SUCH a dissapointing book. Nothing redeeming about the story. "

" A beautiful love story - captures the idea that love can endure over time and can even survive betrayal. "

" Beautiful writing. Lyrical. Beautiful story. One of those books to be read like poetry and revisited periodically. "

" for book club. still not sure what i think of it. "

" 2 1/2 would have been my true rating. "

" I was underwhelmed with this book. The writing was almost too spare for my tastes. I usually enjoy Dillard's writing, but this book is a little modern for me. "

" long love "

" Couldn't finish this dull, wandering book by one of the nation's foremost authors. "

" i really loved the beginning of this book and i had really high hopes. about halfway through, it got really weird and consistently got weirder until the end. it became almost unreadable and completely unbelievable. "

" Beautiful, rugged, independent, and terse--language used so appropriate to the iconoclastic New England people and landscape that are central to it. Gorgeous and heartbreaking and real. "

" Beautiful writing. Fascinating exploration of the nature of love revealed through the story of a man, his wife, and the woman for whom the man leaves his wife. Set in Cape Cod. "

" her gift of words and how she strings them together makes for a poetic book. it is slow-moving, but that didn't bother me. maybe it is the time in my life, but I found their inward, self-centered reflections and actions depressing. "

" I can never get away from the movement of the ground under my feet with Annie Dillard's humble and humbling observations of human interaction. The earth shifted a little with this story of lifelong love in a family. "

" Precise, minimal sentences connecting a fictive 40+ year love story like a constellation. As usual, Annie Dillard packs wallop in unexpected places. "

" The most TRUE novel about long-term relationships I've read in a long time. Not generally a fan of Dillard's past works, but this one felt completely different from the others. "

" I love Annie Dillard's essays, but I this book, although well written did not captivate me--it was too much telling about their lives, while never really getting me to care or feel anything. "

" Ugh! Has anyone been able to make it through this? I love her nonfiction, but the fiction. . . "