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I did appreciate the beautiful prose, complex plot and rich, likeable characters of this book, but it just seemed to take me forever to get through. I think it dragged out too much for me to keep my attention. (Maybe my ADD at play :)). Anyway, if you like long multi-generational sagas you will likely enjoy this book. I have to say that (at least on my Kindle version) this book had the worst editing of any published work I've read. Missing punctuation, mispellings, characters referred to by diff...
I thought Belva was a fairly new writer. I didn't realize she had been writing since the 1980's and passed away in 2010. She wrote about homosexuality before it became a common topic. Interesting story woven over 3 generations.
An excellent saga about the lives of three generations of Doctors spanning a century. The stories of Enoch, Martin and Claire their loves, their trials and tribulations. I enjoyed this very much rather hard to put down for the night..
Random Winds is a novel of three generations of doctors in the Farrell family: Enoch, a dedicated country doctor; Martin, Enoch's son, who becomes a well known neurosurgeon whose love for a woman he can never have could bring him to ruin; and, Claire, Martin's daughter, who turns her back on convention and finds the price too high.I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Belva Plain is a great author.
This has so much depth of character and universal truths...it is sad and good...I love the style of writing with the character saying something and then you know what they are thinking....between sentences. I think this story parallels so much of what is real in life--strife in love and what causes us to be the people we are, and especially the what-ifs (what if I had taken a different course, traveled a different path?), the possibilities of life are not just left to chance or are they? One can...
This is an early Belva Plain but boy is it good. The story concerns a young man who wants and then becomes an outstanding surgeon. However, the real plot involves his love for a woman, marrying her sister, marrying another woman and his continuing love for that first woman. It is well written and keeps you reading to find out what happens. I really enjoyed it.J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the Isms" "Wesley's Wars" "To Whom It May Concern" and "Tell Me About the United Me...
I wish I could tell you what this book is about, but I am not really sure. It covers three generations of doctors from one family and the differences of the generations; however, it goes off in many directions without a real focus. The only question I finally had (about half way through the book), was if Martin and Mary Fern would ever get together. The characters and situations, I felt, were not very real. A very soap opera type atmosphere.
Just adding this to my list as I read it ages ago but just found it when sorting out my books therefore no review
Was there a story in there somewhere? I don't know because I didn't wait around to find out. Yuck...
This is second of Belva's books. I wanted to read them in order to not only start at the beginning of the story, but to watch her writing progress.This is the life story of Martin. He becomes a neurosurgeon probably sometime in the early 1930's. he dreams of becoming a Dr at a very early age. His father is a small town doctor. Instead of telling his father he doesn't want to take over his practice, he takes it over suddenly when his father dies unexpectedly. Martin, until much later in his life,...
Maybe the person you deraming of spending the rest of your life with is not destined to be with you, and you must learn to love the and accept the person destiny has chosen for you.
Some of it dragged a little, but I still enjoyed it.
The story the charactersI did not lose interest at any point. I liked the passage of time and how relationships changed but stayed the same.
Quite a tome. Enjoyable reading and so well written, but I had a little trouble with The Obsession that went on forever. And I hated Claire's choice. Mediocre ending . . .
Very good
