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| Title | : | The Thorn Birds |
| Author | : | Colleen McCullough |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 25th Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 692 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Avon Books (first published April 1977) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Christianity. Lds. Nonfiction. Church. Spirituality |
Colleen McCullough
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 692 pages Rating: 4.23 | 301878 Users | 5639 Reviews
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Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0380018179 (ISBN13: 9780380018178) The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway around the world from her roots. The central figures in this enthralling story are the indomitable Meggie, the only Cleary daughter, and the one man she truly loves, the stunningly handsome and ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart. Ralph's course moves him a long way indeed, from a remote Outback parish to the halls of the Vatican; and Meggie's except for a brief and miserable marriage elsewhere, is fixed to the Drogheda that is part of her bones - but distance does not dim their feelings though it shapes their lives. Wonderful characters people this book; strong and gentle, Paddy, hiding a private memory; dutiful Fiona, holding back love because it once betrayed her, violent, tormented Frank, and the other hardworking Cleary sons who give the boundless lands of Drogheda the energy and devotion most men save for women; Meggie; Ralph; and Meggie's children, Justine and Dane. And the land itself; stark, relentless in its demands, brilliant in its flowering, prey to gigantic cycles of drought and flood, rich when nature is bountiful, surreal like no other place on earth. (First Edition Jacket)Details Books In Pursuance Of The Thorn Birds
| Original Title: | The Thorn Birds |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ralph de Bricassart, Meghann Cleary, Luke O'Neill, Fiona Cleary, Padraic Cleary, Francis Cleary, Dane O'Neill, Justine O'Neill |
| Setting: | Australia New Zealand Vatican City(Italy) |
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Ratings: 4.23 From 301878 Users | 5639 ReviewsEvaluate Based On Books The Thorn Birds
The thorn birds, Colleen McCulloughThe Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by the Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Droghedaa fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Irelandthe story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969. The novel is the best selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide. Meghann "Meggie" Cleary, a four-year-old girl living in New Zealand in the early twentiethMagnificent! Well this was a trip down memory lane.. I read this over and over as a teenager. It was my first racy book. At the time it was the Meggie/Ralph relationship I was most focused on. And then Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward went and ruined it. They just werent how I saw Meggie and Ralph. So when I rated this from memory, I gave it a mediocre 3 star rating. Now I am older and wiser. I loved it all, but particularly enjoyed the evolution of the relationship between Fee and Meggie.
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ The Thorn Birds is one of those books that might be as great as I remember . . . or it might have been a real turd. However, it consistently pops up on my feed due to other friends reading it and I felt it was high time to explain my 5 Star rating (and Tadianas review of a different book added some inspiration). Heres the deal. This was the first book I ever stole from my mother. It was right after the miniseries came out, I was like
I think I read this for the first time in 4th grade. (I hid it in my room for a month b/c this is sooo not a book for a 10 year old!!) My father is an ex-Catholic priest who left the church for my mother so when the mini series came out, the world stopped in my house for an entire week. It's an epic saga about an Irish farming family who relocated to Australia to help work at an ailing aunt's ranch. The book spans some 40+ years of hardships they encounter. The only daughter, Meggie, falls in
On the face of things, The Thornbirds wears the guise of a romance novel, the story of forbidden love, but that's only the novel's outward guise. I think anti-romance would be a better way to define this novel. In fact- in this way- The Thornbirds reminds me of the pulitzer-prize winning Lonesome Dove which- I would argue- is actually an anti-Western. Both The Thornbirds and Lonesome Dove find the outer reaches of their chosen genres (romance or western) and then push as far as they can,
Two stars for decent writing, zero stars for plot and characters. Everything about the story itself just felt flat and clumsy to me. The only character I found remotely interesting was Justine, and the only romance I cared about was between Justine and Rainer. And that was only in the last seventy-five or so pages. Reading the rest of the book just felt like a chore. I hated Ralph. He seemed manipulative and sketchy and at the same time didn't really feel like a real human being. I was super
Oh my fucking God. This book. I was standing in the kitchen this morning angrily chopping veg and I couldn't work out why, then I realised, it was this book just making me irrationally angry, when I wasn't even reading it!Tragedies within the first 50 pages, let's list them.1. She gets a lovely doll!1.5 Doll is trashed.2. She gets sent to school at last!2.5 School is terrible she's beaten every day.3. It's ok she makes an awesome friend!3.5 Friend hates her, fuck you, nits.4. She realllly wants
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