Comment 800 on “The Old Amulet: The Fable of the Beginning Story”

1. K. says:

   at 11:16 AM

   I read this as a First Reads winner.This book is beautifully written and flows so smoothly amid great imagery and with a style that seems very much influenced by oral storytelling I read it all in one sitting since the story is told with surprising fluidity for its actually being a mix of three interrelated stories One thing that particularly struck me, in my reflection upon the story, was that it could, potentially, have been told as a short story Its events were brief enough that they could ha [...]

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2. Cheryl says:

   at 11:16 AM

   Beautifully written description, As salmon struggle upstream to the Alaskan lake of both their beginning and their end, a young physics professor brings her two children to the shore of the lake to spread their great grandmother s ashes This sounds like The Lake of the Beginning A Fable of Salmon, Northern Lights and An Old Promise Kept I purchased a copy of The Lake of the Beginning and enjoyed it so much that I bought and donated a copy to our local library and kept copies to give as gifts.

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3. Meredith says:

   at 11:16 AM

   I won this book as an ARC This book toggles between telling you about a salmon s return to a lake in Alaska to spawn and a mother and her two children returning to the same lake to spread the the ashes of the mother s grandma This story is beautifully written I enjoyed the vivid imagery as well as the storyline itself If you enjoy nature and actual storytelling I highly reccomend this book.

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4. Carl says:

   at 11:16 AM

   I read this as a First Reads winner.At first I was discouraged because the copy wasn t in book format but eventually I read it when I had nothing else to do and do not regret that choice Beautifully written, The Old Amulet simultaneously tells three intertwined stories It is in no way a burden to read though I may have treated it as such after winning it and is worth anyone s time.

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5. Oryan says:

   at 11:16 AM

   The story was very touching The images in my heard were so detailed by the way the author wrote the story I enjoyed reading it and would recomend it to a friend

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