Search - A Thousand Acres

A well written book. It gives a dark picture of human nature. It portrays mankind as self-centered, manipulative, and vengeful. The worldview of this book would definitely be that men and women are basically sinful. Not a book for those looking for a "feel good" piece of literature.

My favorite book of all time. Just remember that it is a story of incest and how two sisters deal with it.

The story was sensational, but the way the plot played out was accurate to a Midwestern woman's life. The beginning was mundate, the middle was choas, and the ending was bittersweet.

This was a pleasant surprise. Liked the characters and would like to read more of Smiley's books.

When I first started reading the first 40 or so pages of this book I kept asking myself "How did this book earn a Pulitzer?" There is much talk about farming so I wasn't that interested. The characters were slowly revealing themselves, then bam! My answer to why it was a National Best Seller and earned a Pulitzer was more than answered in those 371 pages. Page after page I never expected this story to evolve the way it did. This book reveals human nature in all it's beauty and ugliness.

Really great story that kept me reading. The plot was nothing like I had imagined and I
couldn't put the book down needing to know how it was all going to end.