I'll Take You There Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Wally Lamb
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
141

I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb Book Summary

In this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women, Wally Lamb—author of numerous New York Times bestselling novels including She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and We Are Water—weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it.

I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he’s confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood’s silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit—and in some cases relive—scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema’s big screen.

In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There’s his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses.

Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face.

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Book Name I'll Take You There
Genre Family
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.91 MB

I'll Take You There (Wally Lamb) Book Reviews 2024

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Way disappointed. After reading a couple of Lamb's other books, I was really looking forward to this read. What a disappointment! A ridiculous book. Total waste of time & money. Can't believe I paid $13 for this.

Disjointed. Good concept, poorly executed. Too much detail where there shouldn't be, and not enough where there needs to be.

I'll Take You There. First, I love Wally Lamb's books so I hate to write this but I was so disappointed in this one. I actually had to make myself read it which would be unthinkable with his others which I wrestled to put down. The dialogue was often trite, the characters stereotyped and I am getting a little bored with the Rheingold Girls. It seems he did a tremendous amount of research for The Hour I First Believed and needed to get more mileage out of it. Also beating to death some of the political agendas got tiresome. I love his plot lines with intricate interweaving and surprise connections but did not find it with this book. Looking foreword to something more intriguing with the next one I read. Maybe you just cannot please everybody all the time but this book was not my cup of tea.

A great listen..lol. This was my first experience reading a metabook and in reading anything written by Wally Lamb...and the metabook totally changed the experience for me. The character's had a voice that helped to connect to their personality and picture what they would look like. I thoroughly enjoyed the metabook experience. As for the story....At first I wasn't sure where it was headed as Felix (young and old) told his story and the characters told their own....but I was intrigued by the lives of the Funicello Family and his relationship with his siblings....and family secrets. The plot came with a twist at the perfect time and there was so much detail that I felt like I could picture everything in my head. This book talks to a lot of topics, family, culture, religion, feminism....during a time when people were still fighting for their rights! He told the story from a very different time and didn't miss a beat on how times have changed and evolved! I have not read his other books so can't compare it but I really enjoyed it!!

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Summary of I'll Take You There by Wally Lamb

The I'll Take You There book written by Wally Lamb was published on 22 November 2016, Tuesday in the Family category. A total of 141 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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