The Beach House

Author - Jane Green ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Viking Adult was reviewed on 6-Sep-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book The Beach House by Viking Adult. I would recommend this book if you like sweet stories that wrap up into a nice little package at the end, but it´s not for the serious, discerning reader. It was somewhat unoriginal, with little character development and a very predictable outcome. But I did enjoy the Nantucket setting and it left me feeling nice at the end, although it was incredibly unrealistic.¤

2) Hardcover Book The Beach House by Viking Adult. Loved this book so much I was sad when it came to an end..... I could not put it down. I loved all the relationships and witty words...such a wonderful story of Nan and her new "found" family...and the unsuspecting turns her life takes (don´t want to give anything away)...really great real life lessons in this book..... funny and clever... A great story that really sticks with you... I want to be like Nan when I grow up..her attitude..and fox like smarts..!! THANK YOU! Jane Green for such a wonderful book to read on my vacation! Cheers!!!¤

3) Hardcover Book The Beach House by Viking Adult. As another reviewer said Green´s books have been going steadily downhill since ´Babyville´ but the fall in quality between this and her last book (which I didn´t actually like) is a major one. TBH I wonder if she even wrote it. It is flat and lifeless and the characters are really all the same person - Nan is supposed to be this wonderfully eccentric older lady - but in reality she isn´t any different from any of the other characters. Jessica is a spoiled selfish brat but she really isn´t any worse than any of the adult characters.Relationships break up so that the participants can find their ´true soulmates´ (yawn) who it many cases seem to be indistinguishable from their original soulmate or for that matter any other male/female character in the novel. Jordana is supposedly to be incredibly tarty, shallow and materialistic but frankly I couldn´t see any difference between her and the other female characters except they went for a more low key but also expensive look. The conversations in particular are unbelievable - whether characters are male/female/old/young/gay/straight they all have exactly the same voice. In particular she seems to have lost the insight she used to have into male characters - the lowlight for me came when Michael is trying to persuade his married lover to get rid of their baby - he tells her about a friend of his who decided to become a single mother but regretted it - the whole thing sounds like a conversation between two girlfriends, like nothing at all a man would ever say.

The only twist I hadn´t forseen was when someone from the past turns up again in Nan´s life (I didn´t think even in this poor form JG would be so obvious) and the story turns mildly interesting - but needless to say this character is killed off before he can pose any threat to the happy ending we find ourselves rushing towards at breakneck speed. (There is no imagination at all in these pairings - what´s the betting that Daniel will fall for what is apparently the only other unattached gay male in Nantucket or that Michael won´t have to look too far from his mother´s house to find the low-maintenance soulmate he craves?) There are absolutely no consequences at all for bad behaviour - Daf´s ex (having been ditched by the woman he left her for) quickly finds another woman who seems perfect for him, Michael behaves outrageously by sleeping with his boss´s wife - and not only gets off with it but is rewarded by finding true love and a better lifestyle, Jessica steals from shops and her mother responds by buying her more stuff (!). Is this really the same woman who wrote ´Spellbound´?

I wonder how much longer Green will get off with peddling these stories of rich self-satisfied people who have no real problems whatsoever - I found it impossible to sympathise with the so-called problems of Nan who has at least the option of selling off her house and land for millions - when these days many people have not only debt but negative equity and can´t sell their property at all!¤

4) Hardcover Book The Beach House by Viking Adult. A good summer read, typical of Jane Green books. It started me reading all her other books.¤

5) Hardcover Book The Beach House by Viking Adult. I thought the book was good . I have to be fair as i do not read that many books that dont involve a murder or something to that effect. So for a nice summer book i would say this is a good book . The story line was good . their were alot of characters in the book so i sometimes mixed them up . but thats no fault of the author. Nantucket sounds like the place to see . i would say its a good book for the girls who like romance books ect .¤

6) Hardcover Book The Beach House by Viking Adult. The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling Author

Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of women’s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Green’s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of women—and The Beach House will not disappoint.

Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn’t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn’t she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.

So Nan takes out an ad: Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.¤

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