The House Of The Spirits

This is the first book I've read by Isabel Allende, she is a great story teller. A friend told me to read "The House of the Spirits" and I wasn't disappointed. It consists of many emotions and left me wanting to know more about the political situation of where this story took place.

This is the first of a long list of Allende books I planned to read. I read it for english class, and was blown away. Don't get me wrong I love literature but to find such a gem among the list of long winded authors like Hugo, and Dickens was incredible. I was surprised to find this Latin American novel. Allende uses magical realism to emphasise the ways of life and experiences of the family this follows so extrodinarily that you begin to feel like a part of the story. However fictional this novel seems it is based upon the personal experiences of Allende and her family. She is Alba, carefully dipicting her families story and reconstucting it in a fashion that is fictional and yet non-fiction at the same time.
Congratuations to Allende on this superb work, even though she will never hear it from me. I can only hope that my love of this book is spread to others.

The House of the Spirits is easily one of the best books i have ever read. When i first read this novel, i was so enraptured by the utter beauty of it, i read it three times in one month. Since then i've read it several times over, and was pleasantly surprised to find that all of Allende's works are equally beautiful and life changing. This book changed the way that i look at books. I highly reccommend this book to anyone.

It has everything imaginable encompassed within it, and achieves such a unique beauty that i have yet to come upon a book that has struck me as much as this one.

This is my favourite Isabel Allende's book.
It tells me how powerful women are in a men's world.

Keep writting Isabel, please!.