The Infinite Plan - Isabel Allende > Reviews

Advantages: inspiring
Disadvantages: none

...about plot, it is instead the intertwining narratives of several people's lives, and like lie there is a mixture of weird coincidence, total randomness, things that never tie up neatly and things that never quite happen. The characters - Gregory Reeves begins life on the road, his father is preaching his vision of 'the infinite plan' and the family are nomadic. When the father falls ill, they finaly settle down, living in a barrio full of latinos. ... Read review

Advantages: well-developed characters
Disadvantages: Limited conversations between characters

The book begins with an unlikely family with uniquely different backgrounds and ideas all traveling together to present a sort of "New Age" tent revival somewhere around 1950. The Infinite Plan presentation and lecture invites attendees to open their minds to the role we play within the entire universe. The choices we make daily affect other people, and their decisions and actions may influence someone else's direction, and so on. The Infinite Plan ... Read review

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I was dissapointed with the Infinite Plan. There seems to be an attempt to regain the magic of the House of the Spirits which is doomed by the wholesale move to the United States. There are touches of magical realism here and there but they seem to be more formulaic than inspired. That said, this is not a bad book, it just had a lot to live up to. The characters live out their lives, crossing the occasional cultural divide and milestone. It is a book ... Read review