Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club

Pros: beautiful attention to detail, prose that reads like poetry, strong female characters

Cons: weaker male/minor characters, difficult to keep track of changing narrators

The Bottom Line: Rich with detail and Chinese folklore, this is complex and beautiful tale of mothers, daughters and so much more.

Review: It's difficult to explain the impact of this novel without getting too sentimental. I'd heard of Amy Tan, of course, but never read her novels until my mother bought them for me in high school. This was an unusual occurrence for her, as she hadn't...

Pros: Characters, cultural insight, story-telling

Cons: None

Review: This book helped me understand much about the Chinese culture. I loved how well each of the characters was developed. I had seen the movie first years ago and only now got around to reading the book. I think the book was much better than the movie....

Pros: organization, universality

Cons: may be confusing to follow

Review: The structure of the book, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan is very interesting and very much facilities the universality of the novel. An important key to the Joy Luck Club is its tying in of each families' story. The north, south, east, and west of the...

Pros: Dramatic

Cons: Long

Review: I read this book several weeks ago, and it got me thinking. This is a very interesting piece of literature. I could not put it down for a second. It shows both the American experience in the eyes of immigrants and a mother-daughter relationship in...

Pros: great story

Cons: Hard to follow

Review: Ok...now originally I was suposed to read this book for my english class. Believe me I wasn't too thrilled! So I went to the store and picked up a copy and sat down to read it. It was a great book! I loved it!

This book is about the...