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Practical Magic | 
| Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $7.85
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Rating:  182 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0425190374
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425190371
ASIN: 0425190374
Publication Date: August 5, 2003
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practically magical September 25, 2008
seraphcelene (Carson, CA United States)
If you've only seen the movie then you need to read the book. You're missing so much and that is such a shame. The movie is only a wildly adapted slice of what the book contains. Gillian is even more flawed than Nicole Kidman could have handled and Sally is as rigid as rebar. These are older, wiser, more complex characters than the film portrays. Although the aunts, delightfully fleshed out by Stockard Channing and Diane Weist, are only background characters here, Sally's daughers are given front and center attention as girls becoming women. It is, I think, an even trade. Hoffman tells the story of the Owens' sisters simply and beautifully. The tone is almost matter-of-fact, not unlike wisdom shared, sage advice given by the older and the wiser.
 not her best. September 24, 2008
Lauren M. Ellington (USA)
This isn't Haffman's best, but was still a desent read. I would reccomend it to someone who wasn't expecting anytihng like the movie.
A little disappointed. August 7, 2008
J.H. (Stockton Springs, Maine)
It took me a little bit to get through this book. I lost interest a couple of times. It had a lot of potential, but I have not been able to read another Hoffman book since.
 Ummm.... July 18, 2008
M. Aranda
When I first bought this item i was so excited to read it but then i realized that it wasn't what i expected, It has nothing to do with the movie (which is all the way better), maybe only the names......... it was boring and i can hardly see the magic on it.
 Gray eyes scrying in the rain. June 23, 2008
B. Chandler (Arlington, Texas)
As with many, I saw the movie first. This is where there is a rift as to whether the book or movie is better. I will leave that to you. (See my review of the movie)
This is the story of a family that on the surface that seems different from most families. Later we see it is anything but. The lives of several generations of the Owens family are covered from major events to those thing that seem minor at the time. This book has a dark undertone and make you think the cat is going to jump off the refrigerator at any moment. Yet if you quit trying to anticipate the story, you find it rich in beautiful pose and people interaction. Contrarily, this story is interspersed with vulgar language and repugnant images (probably necessary to portray bad guys and bad times.)
I enjoyed reading this book. I suppose now I will have to read something else by Alice Hoffman to see if this is her style or a radical departure.
Throughout the story you are not sure if it is luck, logic, or just practical magic
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