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115 out of 115 people found this review helpful.

A plain and ordinary treasure

Date of Review:  Jun 7, 2001
The Bottom Line: Plainsong is a beautifully written, interesting read with memorable characters set in small town America.
Review: This book tricked me. It fooled me into thinking at first that it was about mostly small things, really not much more than brief glimpses into the lives of a few characters. I was also caught off guard by how carefully structured the novel is. The...
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  5.0

by: ebolles
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Simple and powerful language and style...
Cons
None for me. Some may not like the...
 
59 out of 59 people found this review helpful.

Plainsong - a haunting melody of life in a small town

Date of Review:  Aug 8, 2005
The Bottom Line: Plainsong is like a pot of vegetable soup. None of the ingredients stand out. It's the mixture that works.
Review: Kent Haruf defines plainsong as "any simple and unadorned melody," and the description aptly captures the essence of his novel by the same name. This simple slice-of-life glimpse at a year in a small Colorado town is more cotton sheets than...
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  5.0

by: CyndiA
Recommended to buy: Yes

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The stories are simple but meaningful...
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I would have liked more stories, but...
 
23 out of 23 people found this review helpful.

An Absolutely Joyful Read

Date of Review:  Jul 6, 2000
Review: Plainsong is a joyful tale of an unexpected family of unrelated people bound together for their common need to love and be loved. The very small east Colorado town of Holt is the setting. All inhabitants know each other's histories and current...
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  5.0

by: irbykb
Recommended to buy: Yes

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excellently portrayed characters, good...
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not long enough! ;)
 
18 out of 18 people found this review helpful.

A Song about Motherhood

Date of Review:  Mar 27, 2000
Review: Sure, "Plainsong" is about a small town and its inhabitants, but at its core this novel shows that people need to feel protected, loved, and, well, mothered. Written in the third person without quotation marks (a style that flows beautifully once...
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  5.0

by: mountaindog
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
memorable characters
Cons
story will feel monotonous to some
 
15 out of 15 people found this review helpful.

A great book

Date of Review:  Jul 25, 2002
The Bottom Line: Plainsong was a fantastic book written in a simple but tasteful way. It was a mind expanding read into a small but colorful community.
Review: Plainsong was an interesting book that captures the soft and harsh reality life in a small community. It ranges from different characters like, a young pregnate teenager to, two old isolated farmers. When reading this book you see the day to day...
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  4.0

by: beanie712
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Keeps you into the book by changing...
Cons
Predictable in some areas.
 
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Slow Beginning but Engaging Finale

Date of Review:  Sep 30, 2000
Review: What I noticed from the very beginning of Plainsong was that Kent Haruf was an extremely talented writer. His words meld together and they flow so gently..it really feels as though you are just sitting back and watching the scenes unfold before you,...
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  4.0

by: Liz_Stratford
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Intricate writing, beautiful characters
Cons
slow beginning
 
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Simple and unadorned

Date of Review:  Nov 3, 2000
Review: According to the frontispiece, Plainsong is any simple and unadorned melody or air. Simple and unadorned are terms that perfectly describe this tale of rural/small town life in eastern Colorado. Unadorned not because the lives of its characters are...
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  5.0

by: ddbecker
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Absorbing story, masterfully written
Cons
Nary a one
 
9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

A Simple Elegant Story About Love

Date of Review:  Sep 11, 2000
Review: There have been many small towns that have been created in literature: Larry McMurtry's Thalia, James Wilcox's Tula Springs, Garrison Keilor's Lake Wobbegon Days. It's time to add another title to this list: Kent Haruf's Holt, Colorado.

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  5.0

by: Jennifer_Gibbons
Recommended to buy: Yes

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beautiful writing
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there's no punctuation marks, so be...
 
9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

Anything but a Plain Song

Date of Review:  Jan 16, 2000
Review: I did not expect to read a book the author calls plain and find it so extraordinary I could no sooner put it down than stop thinking about it. The setting, characters and plot are in fact plain and simple, but Kent Haruf?s descriptions of each make...
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  5.0

by: nelson_mich
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Easy to relate to the characters.
Cons
There isn't a sequel.
 
7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

A Novel in The Plain Style

Date of Review:  Dec 12, 1999
Review: Haruf's novel is an elegantly sparse description of a series of colliding lives in a small town on the eastern Colorado plains. A high school girl becomes pregnant and is provided shelter by two aging bachelor farmers. The lives of all concerned are...
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  5.0

by: denis.hauptly
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Clear, precise and simple writing style.
Cons
None, unless an absence of violence is...
 

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