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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Bel Canto - all about love and passion, 19 Jun 2007
This is one of the best books I have read for ages. Bel Canto is about love and passion, of every sort. Love of art, love of family, love of simple pleasures and the love between a man and a woman are all in this wonderful book. If you know nothing about opera it teaches you a bit about it through the characters which are excellently written. The love that grows between people who are thrown together through unexpected circumstances is written so brilliantly it surprised me I had never read this wonderful author before. Buy this book, you won't be disappointed!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A brilliantly read story full of interesting characters., 25 April 2006
I listen to audio books while driving to work and of all the books I have heard so far this is undoubtedly the best.
The story is very much character-driven and the narrator captures the voices of all the different characters brilliantly. I felt as if I got to know them and care about them and I had a growing sense of loss as the story progressed that it would soon be over.
Parts of the story are more graphic than I would normally like, for example in describing the treatment of an injury. But I found that I couldn't bring myself to skip past that section as I had to know what happened to the characters.
I did not want the story to finish and I found the final ending slightly disappointing. This did not spoil the experience for me though as the whole story is still very much alive in my memory.
It is now several months since I listened to the discs. In the meantime I have listened to other stories and forgotten them but this one stays with me. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
An interesting read, 10 Dec 2005
Another reading group choice and one that held my interest; this despite being told what happens in the end during the opening chapter. Set in a South American embassy, the assembled group are taken hostage and is the story of how both hostage and "terrorist" endure their enforced captivity and the unexpected unions that take place. Even though the end was a known outcome, it was nevertheless such a surprise. A difficult book to get hold of but worth the effort.
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