Chauncey Gardiner is a character that I will never forget.

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	• Being There Jerzy Kosinski Grove Press, 1999 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 80 reviews view larger image
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Very unrealistic

Being There is a novel with many different themes. Although I enjoyed the novel, I thought it was very unrealistic. For one thing, the main Character, Chance has never been out to society to see anybody including a dentist or a doctor. It's amazing that a friend of the old man, the man who made Chance a prisoner to tend for his garden would not have led the police or an authority figure to report he was making Chance a slave. Chance also has no idea about who his parents are.

Mr.Rand, the old man who Chance stays with after he leaves the old man 's house wants his wife to be in love with Chance. Although he knows that he is going to die, why would he want his wife to be in love with another man?

The main problem with Being There is that the main character, Chance is very unrealisic. The book never explains why Chance never had a family or why nobody came to his rescue before. There are too many unanswered questions and the plot is very undeveloped. Although I liked the book to a certain extent, I find the movie a little more realistic than the book.

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It was an okay, book, it wasn't that intresting to me.

This book I thought was a little out my league. It seemed to go very slow. The book just wasn't that intresting to me because of what the books events were. I just didn't like it very much.

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Story of a man propelled through life by fate and luck.

"BEING THERE", by Jerzy Kosinski was a great read. I could hardly put it down ( not for long though, it is only 118 pages). Kosinski puts together a well thought, interesting story with a very relevant theme. His main character, "Chance the gardiner" is an excellent example of kosinski's power of creativity and cleverness. In the story, Chance has been locked away all of his life. One day he is suddenly thrust out into the real world. He has no education, only the nowledge of a garden he has spent his whole life growing. The story shows just how far he gets on luck, fate, pure personality, and his knowledge of the garden, which he uses to answer the complex questions people ask him. It will make you wonder, and question our society. A definite must read for anybody.

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Chauncey Gardiner is a character that I will never forget.

As I read the story, I kept thinking about how Chance would react and how people would react to him in the society today. Chance is no the kind of persont hat thinks deeply about life and what it means or has going for him. He is more the kind of person that says what is on his mind very simply at that time. His life is the Garden. He eats, sleeps, and walks the garden. I found it very amazing that just because of who he ended up with, he was a brilliant man, but if he still lived in his house by himself, I don't think that he would be so famous and such a brilliant man. Overall I liked the book very much. Even though it was short, I thought that it said a lot and I liked how I had to kind of interpret the meaning of words myself.

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