Wishing doesn't make it so.
582856
I really wished these had worked.  They started to come off during the 4th shower.  They continue to come off.  My tub was Completely dry and then waited another 24 to 48 hrs after I applied the stickers before I used the shower.  I was so in hopes these would work.
4971996
Makes you think of the what if's in life.  Not that I'm a big believer in this situation happening but it does make you think.
562894
A wonderful story, capturing the hopes and desires of would-be lovers.  Reminds us to take chances in life, whether it be to uproot and change locations, or to trust the heart, and follow a dream.  The characters  remind us of ourselves.  I was bought this book by a lover, now I by it for  friends and family
948241
This story could be true, we hope it isn't, even the slightest bit. So you keep reading wondering how, how can this story ever be happy. At the end you are satisfied, and you want to tell your friends.
3380328
Although God often chooses not to give that which we most desire. In this book he does. This book gives us a look at the times when women are nothing more than their husbands property. As happens today, the innocent sufferer for the wicked and in this story and almost lose their lives.
1643023
We don't try to convince ourselves that unwanted things don't exist. Instead we use the thought exchange to exchange what we don't want for something we do. My favorite analogy is that there is salt amd pepper on the table and yiu are cooking a meal that calls for salt. You use the salt but leave the pepper where it is.
3477720
The ending was not realistic (unbelievable). It would be less likely, in real life, that something like that would happen.
1190367
I really wanted the second book in this series to treat Emma a little better. While some things in her life were going ok for her, others were not. She tried to mend her broken relationship with her mother, but still continually shut people out of the pain that she dealt with on a daily and nightly basis. I had a feeling of what the ending would bring, and unfortunately I was right. I was sad that things had to end the way they did, but hoping in the third book Emma can move past the things that haunt her and be able to move forward with the good things in her life.
1982403
Ive been wanting to read this since it released but I put it off because its a story I already know. A story that is deeply painful, that still doesnt have a happy ending. I don't know that it ever will. But the hope in THUG is enough to make me believe that it can, someday, if we all keep trying.
1505270
This book will make you think. You may or may not feel any particular affection for the characters. I can't say that I did. But they do seem real, with wonderful jealousies and reservations and habits of thought and emotion guiding them through life, ever so haltingly. Noone is innocent, but noone is guilty either. Life teeters between joy and suffering, but how can it truly be suffering when one knows there will be joy again? And by the same token, how can it truly be joy, for it is so very transient, until the next period of suffering. Indeed, as short as life is, how can suffering truly be suffering and joy truly joy when it is so close to ending in either sense? But still we are jealous, still we are hesitant, still we give into desires, still we love, and need to be loved, and hurt those we love, and care for those we love, and if ever we spend time thinking too much about how soon it will all be over, well, we might just be inclined to not care at all, although we still would.

Rare is the novel, or the anything, which leads you to think you might have some new flash of insight as to how the whole damn thing works...

You have to tip your cap to Kundera and say, good job. Does he see more since he saw it though the prism of communism, and its peculiar form in Prague? Or would a man such as Kundera been able to paint a similar picture in pre-WWI England, or the golden years of California, or the roaring twenties of NYC? There is something universal here. I feel I have only scratched the surface of what he was trying to communicate.
3681465
This is not the happily ever after book that children dream of. It is a hard honest look at survival of a few after a zombie plague. Life and death and simply trying to live one day to the next.
3973637
A sad tale about how life can be extra challenging for some. Virginia hopes that Aaron the man she has fallen in love with will ask her for a date. He finally does which leaves her overjoyed. Unfortunately as soon as it seems her life will change for the best an unfortunate accident happens. Sad but very realistic of how life can be sad and hurtful.
3697073
I wish the things in this book would become accepted practice. I don't want to spoil it, so I will be slightly non-specific. The way we deal with death effectively covers up or erases the actual person. In Card's imagination, the opposite becomes possible.
3648507
if only this story had any possibility in REAL life. since the election of President Barack Obama, i no longer believe that there is enough courage and respect to accept this type of love between two people. i find that sad and depressing to admit.
3634221
Still I can not understand how people can survive in those circumstances - both physically and mentally. Somehow they manage to dream up their own "hope". However it seems that fraud and dishonesty always play a huge role in the transformation of a dream(hope) to a reality and the consequences that follow.
2798757
I was very distressed while I read this book. I had dared to have some shred of hope that it would shed some light on the possibility of somehow being able to save my marriage. Instead, it communicated that it was a foregone conclusion that the marriage had to end. While i don't disagree that the vast majority of the time this is the reality of the situation, i don't agree that it should be this way for 100% of the couples. I suppose that the real message is that both sides could heal more quickly and move on with thier lives if they would quickly dissolventhe marriage, but sometimes I think that we as a society are always on the lookout for the quick and easy fix. We don't want to put forth the effort to try and work things out because it is too hard or too painfull. I realize that this example is probably a poor one, but compare it to an overweight person who wants and needs to loose weight and get fit. There is no fast and easy way to achieve the results that you need without putting in a lot of time and effort. It is hard and strenuous work and something that must be maintained for the rest of your life in order to not end up back where you started. I see it as really not being so different from wanting to save a mixed orientation marriage. There will be many that disagree with me and that is perfectly fine. We are blessed to be able to enjoy the freedom of having our own unique opinions.
4018879
Wish I could have given it a 4.5 but could not -- not quite a 5 though.