I'm on my second time reading it, But i have to say, best book i have ever read... if anyone hasn't read it, i recommend it !!
I absolutly love that book. I read it a few years ago, bought the dvd, and watched the dvd with my mom (how appropriate). Very well written novel, nicely put together movie. Deffinately recomend it, especially if you are a mother or daughter or both.
my friend's reading that book right now..she keeps on reading me little excerpts from it, and i gotta say, its pretty poetic..i might just steal it from her when she's done ierno how many times the movie made me cry..and i hardly ever cry during movies
I read it, and it was good.... but I wouldn't go so far as to say its the best thing I've ever read. I remember thinking the movie did a total hatchet job on the book though, but I never like the movie if I see it AFTER reading the book.
if you read the book first, you never like the movie, it just doesn't live up to the book but if you see the movie first then rad the book, its the way to go
I loved the book too--I've been watching for something new by Janet Fitch (I think she's the author) but haven't found anything yet. Pamela Duncan's "Moon Women" is also a very good read.
Yes, Moon Women is really good. I'm bad at remembering names, but I believe the author is Pamela Duncan, who studied with Lee Smith (Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies).
This is the best book I've read in several years. Watching Astrid evolve from a Girl to a Woman in such brief span of time and through such brief encounters and under such difficult circumstances is facinating to see. Janet Fitch has an amazing way of putting essential meaning in a simple sentence structure. The movie should have been a mini-series. Yet the movie was awsome, and one of my favorites of the past couple of years. Michelle Pfiefer was brilliant, Rennie Zellwegger was great, Robin Wright Penn was hillarious, and young Alison Lohen(?) was mesmerizing. I'm glad they didn't put the dog-scene in the movie, because no dog would have been safe after that.
I work at a video store and we only got 1 copy in of White Oleander on dvd. I normally get about 6 copies of a new release at the time. Not a lot of ppl know about it, but i have recommended it to loads of women and everytime i have had great reactions about it.
That book changed me. After I finished it I felt like a completely different person. It's an incredibly read.
