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I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in a book written by a famous author before. I had high expectations because I had found out that Louise Erdrich was the artist of the year in 2001. I really couldn't believe the fact that I had no connection with these bizarre series of events or any of the characters. When I first started to read the book, I couldn't help but feel that this book had a prequel because of the vagueness in detail about some of the characters. It seemed like it to me that the author used some of the character in the book in another book, for example we know Eli Kashpaw is described shy gentle man. That where I lost my interest in the book. I felt that it lacked details for some of the characters and too much detail for the others. I not only that, but I didn't just start counting pages, I started counting paragraphs, then sentences, and then words. If I didn't have to read this book, I think I would have never picked it out from a library or a bookstore. I guess now that I've given my initial review of the book, I'd like to explain my self. First of all, I went into reading this book expecting something with a deep Native American history. Perhaps this is one of the reasons as to why I was s
But I must say that the other parts of the book were more chaotic and confusing to follow. Pauline was jealous of Fleur and angry that the men loved her, but at the same time she loved Fleur because that was who she wanted to be. His saying that we are in a desperate need of getting ourselves back to nature our home, for God did not invent coffee machines. How it wasn't always this bad and there actually was peace that their people enjoyed without a care in the world. Then maybe the book would have been easier and more interesting to follow without the hectic details. Maybe I missed some detail from the book where it described my curiosity, but I could not find it because it was too hard to follow what was going on in the book period. Fleur was this mystical character that had some strange connection with the water, because she was so beautiful that the water monster wanted her. She was so beautiful, so strong, and in some ways powerful. The book had two narrators and they would switch off with every other chapter. The first narrator was this older gentleman named Nanapush who had lived a long time and experienced a lot, but may have been slightly senile. " Could you imagine how much natural resources as trees, rocks, herbs, and animals inhibited this land of ours before we took it from the Native Americans the nature lovers? Native Americans held there land sacred and prayed too many gods they had to preserve their beautiful living place. Then the technologically advanced "White Men" came and took their land from them. Or it could also mean that the people who working hard to keep what left of their land, is doing it so that she won't have to live through the hardship that he had been through.
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