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	• Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices Jodi Picoult Washington Square Press, 2001 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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not my favorite Picoult

While still a good read, Songs of the Humpback Whale is far from my favorite Picoult. In this novel, Picoult uses a number of different points of view to tell the same story. While two of her voices (mother and daughter) are very effective, the others leave much to be desired adding little to the story and causing me to flip through to the next chapter. Very frustrating and confusing (although a good idea - it just didn't work here) was that one of the points of view (the daughter's) told the story from back to front joining up with the other storytellers somewhere near the end. All this accomplished was giving away the end at the beginning and confuing me so much that if I had really enjoyed the story I would have read it again to figure out what was going on.

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Good - but not by favorite Picoult

I did like thie book, but not as much as I love Picoult's other novels (my favorites were The Pact and Plain Truth). While I have loved books that tell stories from different points of view, switching off each chapter, for example (The Poisonwood Bible), the different viewpoints did not really work well in this book. The father's viewpoint continually disrupted the flow of the story with seemingly unrealted accounts of humpback whale studies, and Rebecca's view point when from end to beginning, while the others went from beginning to end. If I had liked the story enough, my first instinct would have been to re-read the book to actually understand it and keep track of all the characters and timing of events.

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One of my favorite novelists!

I first became acquainted with Jodi Picoult when I read THE PACT two years ago, and fast became an avid admirer of her work.
Family is the recurring theme in Ms. Picoult's novels and SONGS OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE is no exception. Told in five alternating voices, SONGS is the story of the search and discovery of true love and of second chances.
SONGS OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE resonates with the beauty, grace and sensitivity of emotion and language that is Jodi Picoult's trademark.

An Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree

I know this area like the back of my hand, having lived in the Stow/Concord area all my life. In truth I enjoy reading books by local authors about local areas. I feel I can be part of the story that way.
So this was the major reason I choose this book. I had never read anything by Jodi before. The ability to relate to Sam was beyond belief to me having gone to a technical school that shared a campus with Newton High, of all places. I can remember how we did feel like sub-human compared to the "high" class girls that attended Newton High. You were considered a dummy compared to the collage bound students.
New England has that something special that draws anyone from this area back and Jodi captures this through the story in all the people in the story. Over all it is a very good story of lives that entwine and interact with each other. Thoughts both spoken and silent adds flavor. I liked the way that Jodi returns to a subject from someone elses point of view. I enjoyed the story and the only thing I might change was the constant fliping back and forth in time. I found this to be a bit confusion at times.

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My first Jodi Picoult Book.

I had heard a lot about Jodi Picoults books and happy to finally start one. This book is told in 5 diffrent voices and at times the book will repeat it's self quite a bit.

Jane Jones decides that she is going to leave her husband Oliver and take her daughter Rebecca with her and that she is going to go cross country to see her brother Joley who is what Jane considers her best friend in the entire world.

Joley decides that he is going to give Jane and Rebecca the trip that they will enjoy and sends them to unusual places. Oliver on the other hand who is more intersted in his whale trip decides that if there is any way he is going to get Jane back he is going to have track them down and find them himself so he sets on a trip of his own and has his own adventures.

At the end Oliver finally finds Jane but the problems that come from him showing up cause many other problems.

The book comes together very well, but at times you hear the same story two or three times from each of the characters.

Overall I can't wait to read more from this wonderful author.

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