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| Winter's Tale | 
| Author: Mark Helprin
Creator: Oliver Wyman
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 198382
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 22
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.2 x 2.2
ISBN: 1602833443
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781602833449
ASIN: 1602833443
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Please use your imagination September 11, 2008
Mark Helprin
I am just an average person and I so thoroughly enjoyed "A Winter's Tale" that I bought it in hardcover because my paperback was getting worn out. I found the imagery to be magical and since I first read it I have found real life facts that were woven into the story. I feel sorry for people who cannot appreciate this novel.
 Still Haven't Finished It After Three Years August 26, 2008
I picked this up after reading "Freddy and Fredericka," hoping that it would be as good. It is now three years later. I have re-read F&F three times, "Memoirs From an Antproof Case" once, and have started this book four times and can't get past the first two sections.
So why am I reviewing this and giving it three stars before I finish it? Well, I may never finish it. The writing is superb. At first the story is compelling. But if you look at the spine of my paperback copy, you'll note that somewhere around page 250 I just stop caring. Why? Let me use this analogy. There is a bakery in my hometown that sells the most wonderful birthday cakes with sinfully delicious buttercream frosting. Knowing that I love the frosting more than I love the actual cake part, my parents would get me one of these every year and have the bakery cover it top to bottom with frosting roses. But as much as I loved the icing roses the richness would eventually get to me and I would be literally sick of them by the time half of them are gone and the rest of the cake would be thrown away. There was nothing wrong with the cake - who knows, maybe the uneaten part is even better than the first - but it was impossible to enjoy the rest of the cake once the sweetness of the icing has overwhelmed everything else. The bakery is still open and I have to re-learn this lesson every September 28th. Maybe it's time to learn that lesson with this book.
Winter Magic June 18, 2008
A very enjoyable read, a little Gangs of New York, Pegasus, a touch of Twilight Zone, time travel, passionate love interest, mystery, thrills, and history. A terrific writer who kept me engaged. Also read his terribly funny Memoirs from an Antproof case, a tall and very entertaining tale.
A truly wonderful novel June 12, 2008
I have been an enormous fan of Mark Helprin ever since I first picked up A Soldier of the Great War and got immediately sucked in. This was the third of Helprin's novels that I read, and I remember when I was reading both loving it, and then being somewhat baffled and let down by the crazed ending. However, I can safely that no novel has ever stuck with me the way Winter's Tale has. I can still vividly recall scenes from the book, scenes that are so perfect and beautiful that you wont want to leave the world that Helprin describes. If you love Helprin, if you love New York, or if you love reading, then this book is for you.
beautiful.....but odd May 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is rare that I am unable to finish a book. I read alot. But, I cannot finish this one. I find myself dreading picking this book up. There are pleasureable bits and pieces, and the wording is beautiful.Georgous in fact...and maybe, just maybe, the story will get somewhere, but I am on page 393, and although I get the plot and the theory of this book, I find that it means nothing to me. I quit! I am not much of a fantasy reader, and maybe that is my mistake in picking this one. It has an element of reality and history mixed in with sheer fantasy which mixed together really frustrate me. As Charlie Brown would say......AGHHHHHHHHHH! My advice: give it a try. Maybe you will like it...but if you get 150 pages into this book and it doesn't grab you, then don't waste your reading time. Good luck :)
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