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General Reading: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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    • CommentAuthorSlyShy
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2009
     

    Has anyone else read this book? I’m starting my fifth reading. <_< I don’t know. Any time I feel like I need inspiration or hope I go and it again.

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    I read it. Felt like 2 or 3 different stories to me. Not as big as an impression on me that it had on others.

    • CommentAuthorSlyShy
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2009
     

    It does feel like different stories, because Francie’s perspective shifts. She goes from being a kid to an adolescent to basically an adult, and yes, the entire story changes along with her.

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    Thread resurrect!

    I stopped at the chapter in which family history is mentioned. It just got tiring to read things about her parents and have them compare those things to Francine. It’s a pity because my first impression was, “Wow, this looks nice!”

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    I actually just recently read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I enjoyed it very much. I liked her transition from a girl, to an adolescent to an adult; ‘twas amazingly well done.

    • CommentAuthorMnemone
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2011
     
    I liked this book very much, and find hmyd.windermere's comments interesting, because Francie herself was not the most memorable character or the source of the most memorable sequences for me.
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      CommentAuthorPuppet
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2011
     

    It’s definitely one of my favorite books of all time. Like RVL said, I felt like the way Francie grew as the book progress was done almost flawlessly. It was one of those books where I wish it went on forever.

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    I know I’m only repeating what everyone else has already said, but I loved how seamlessly the book progressed. The problem with writing books about growing up is often they come off as short stories about the same characters: here is the protagonist at age 5, then here she is at age 8, etc. Francie grew up little by little; it was almost as if you were watching her in real time.

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