Win a trip to the film premiere of THE DESCENDANTS!
Random House Reader’s Circle has partnered with Fox Searchlight, United Airlines, Fairmont Hotels and Parade Magazine to offer you and a friend the exciting chance to attend the movie premiere of The Descendants (starring George Clooney) in Los Angeles, including free airfare and a $500 American Express gift card! Trust us—after you read this incredible, hilarious, and deeply moving debut novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings (originally published in 2006), you won’t want to miss the movie.
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Would love, love, love to win this!
The descendants sounds like a really great book , I would really love to read it and then go see the movie starring George Clooney. Another great book from random house readers circle.
Once I started reading The Descendants, I could not put this book down! The only distraction was George Clooney’s photo on the cover of my library copy; Matt King, I presume. Most likely, flashbacks will be utilized to capture Joanie, the comatose mother. All in all, this was not only a fascinating book about the land-rich descendants of Hawaiian royalty, but also a brutally honest exploration of an almost clueless father awakening to his past mistakes and future responsibilities to his conflicted daughters. Look forward to reading Kaui Hart Hemmings’ next novel!
Thinking about doing this as a book club at my library. Would love to see the premiere of The Descendants.
Would love to see the premiere of THE DESCENDANTS. Thinking about reading this book as a book club selection for the library.
This sounds fantastic! Can’t wait to see. Love Clooney – of course but the story looks great.
Can’t wait to read this novel and would absolutely love to attend the premiere of the Descendants.
“The Descendants” is a great movie, without a doubt. But given the mix of golden globe and Oscar buzz I expected a lot more.
The story and the premise of the movie is ideal. In fact, the tagline caught my attention enormously: “trying to reconnect with daughters.” That is exactly the type of movie I like. Instantly, I could tell this was a movie about character development and human connection, usually the type of movies with the greatest potential.
Unfortunately, it was merely decent, however, not special. It felt like the movie built up much potential, but failed to release it at a certain point during the movie. The whole movie, for me, felt too introductory in nature. Not necessarily the plot, because the plot does evolve, however the overall “feel” of the movie felt preliminary to a bigger and more dramatic event which never happened.
It’s not easy to explain my feelings towards the movie because the fault wasn’t necessarily technical or specific. But it did linger around and distracted my viewing somewhat. I felt like there was still more to explore in both Clooney’s character and the character of his daughters. Also, I think this element alone impacted on Clooney’s performance. His performance was good, definitely, but again, because I felt like there was more to be explored, naturally, I also felt like his performance could have been added to (but not necessarily improved).
Given the Oscar buzz of this movie, I have to compare it to other movies of a similar nature. And unfortunately, I didn’t feel like there was sufficient link between the characters…although the potential to reach that connection was established, it was not acted upon in my opinion. Unfortunately I have to say there have been better developed “re-establishing connection” movies.
All in all, this is an enjoyable movie, but it is missing some important elements which deteriorates the viewing experience to some extent.
Have a good day!
Debbie
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