The Thorn Birds

Excelente libro!! Me gusto muchísimo! Llegó en tiempo y forma!

Das Buch kam in einem einwadfreien Zustand bei mir an. Vielen Dank

Un peu deçue par son format car j'ai voulue acheter un livre plus grand que celui que j'avais déjà. Finalement il est des mêmes dimensions. Mais ce n'est pas grave, j'adore ce livre et très contente d'en avoir un de plus.

When writing, acting, music, and films had something to say and told us a story. I did not really understand the big deal about Barbara Stanwyck when I was 16 as I intensely watched this. 30 something years later, I began watching Turner Classic Movies and I taken the time to enjoy ALL of her films and I was made to appreciate the Thorn Birds even more. I felt for her soul all the way. She was in pain with love and lust and her eyes weren't old, her heart wasn't old, her desires weren't old, it was only her body. If Father Ralph met Stanwyck in her earlier day opposite Henry Fonda, I bet that Father De Brisscart would not have needed to feel pious and wholesome. I love Meg and Father's relationship the most. I had feels just like for much older men into their late 28s when I was 11 and in the 80s, it was a fantasy, but now it is a Scarlet Letter, a stalking and being a prisoner of life. Well executed film for TV and worth having in your permanent film collection. Also, I got the DVS version, but this does not matter, the seller was excellent and they did not disappoint, not a one, and also, the package was sealed in clear wrapping to show the care they took to sell this. Another awesome story from the 80s.....The book and the mini series will always be the best and not that new junk that they have the nerve to remake. Who ever remakes this should have "old Hollywood" return and break their knee caps and watch a LOT of excellent films so that they will learn how to cast, budget, use a camera, spend the money, and much more, It would be the best knee cap breaking these young Gen Y film makers can hope for. I really do mean break every bone in a dirt-bag's knee cap. No Joke. A great film or excellent performances would be left alone to enjoy and to savour. NO one should remake what has already been done. Gen Y...WHY? Watch this mini-series, it is better than a theatrical release and well worth keeping, I 'll never forget this from my HS teenage years. I loved those two together when Sidney Penny grows up and becomes Rachel Ward..now THAT is excellent casting. 80s women were real and beautiful, talented, not snotty and not blonde, dead goodness too many blondes, too loud and dress terrible for professionalism. Give us back the men who look like real men and women who inspired other women for being the strong silent type. Thank you Colleen MC Collough. You captured telling a story with Australian History, took our minds to a place we have never been before and created work for hundreds of perfectly, gorgeous talents people who did not need to be a ho or shout or to be on You Tube for attention. This was the real thing. Thank you. Buy it as the novel AND the film. either way, no waste of time shall you ever consider this art in motion to be. Long Live Rachel Wood and Richard Chamberlain in the film version and how Colleen pictured them exactly as they came to life on screen.

I'd seen most of the tv series before I read the book, so I always have that wonderful theme running through my mind when I read it. Although some of the writing is a bit "clunky" at times, the characters are believable, the sort of people you can imagine meeting. Fiona, the matriarch, is a very closed-in woman who has no time for her only daughter, Megan. Paddy, the father, is a decent hard-working man who married Fi on her father's instruction when she became pregnant with another man's child. Paddy's sister, Mary, married well and became the owner of a vast estate to which Paddy brought his family to help manage the sheep station. Despite the antipathy between Paddy and Frank the eldest son, the family worked hard and settled in to the life. Meggie had little attention from her mother, but adored Frank who protected her from the younger brothers. Into this reasonably comfortable life came a charismatic priest, Father Ralph, who would affect Meggie's life from childhood to womanhood. She was the child he would never have and could not ignore. As Meggie grew up her childhood hero-worship turned into teenage infatuation for a man completely different from the men in her family and very narrow social circle. Father Ralph failed to recognise that Meggie had grown up, and left for Rome after Mary's death, leaving Meggie angry at his apparent rejection of her love. Fiona's negligence of Meggie, and Meggie's obsession with Ralph, culminate in a disastrous marriage, and Meggie becoming a live-in help whilst her husband, who bears a passing resemblance to Ralph, forms a bromance with the leader of a team of sugarcane cutters. A difficult pregnancy and birth brought Ralph to her bedside, where he finally sees Meggie as an adult woman, not a little girl. The love that he can offer is not enough for Meggie, who shows her anger at him and his God. From there this theme of conflicted love runs more forcefully through their loves and the way it plays out affects the next generation as well as causing a crisis for Ralph, which links into the legend of the Thornbird who sings once just before she dies impaled on a thorn. This is a sweeping family saga in which the landscape and weather are almost characters in their own right, such is their importance. It might not be great "Literature", but it is a great story. Read and enjoy.