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Summary: The Bomb
Review: The #1 part in this story is the Pasquinel Saga.It just tells you wonderfully how the trappers be then as every year with astonishing discipline they paddle from Saint Lois to the Rockies.With more intricate discrptions it is the bomb.
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Summary: GREAT STORIES - HISTORICAL EPIC
Review: This book has been made into a movie mini-series, but even if you have seen the series this book is well worth reading. Some people disagree vehemently, but I appreciate all the stories within the story and Mr. Michener's great attention to the details. He starts with the land itself and takes the reader through the present day by creating a cast of characters that weave into the next, perhaps like the baskets the Indians made. I have been fascinated with the West and this book only added to it. One of Mr. Michener's greatest works.
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Summary: Historical Adventure
Review: This book has remained in my memory since I first read it when it first came out then the series on TV. What I am looking for is the hardback version so I can read it as my eyes get weaker.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: This book is an outstanding tribute to the way life was in America's west 100 years ago. Tripping from several points of view and through various characters' lives, this book grips the reader but only after a rather laborious 100 pages of scene setting.
The start could be seen by the impatient as tedious, but really it all sets the backdrop for a gripping novel. Some excellent writing techniques and a distinctive style mean that the reader really feels a part of the towns that the novel visits.
Centred around a fictitious town in Colorado, Centennial, the book plots the expansion of the railways, the dusty lives of cowboys and the ruthless extermination of buffalo and indian alike.
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Summary: The BEST BOOK my history teacher ever made me read!!
Review: This book is required to be read if you take "Honors Block" at CPHS. I was dreading it because it was over 1000 pages long. After I got past the chapter, "The Land" (which happened to be all about ROCKS, it's dull.) the book caught my eye. It's plot had new turns when it became tiring and I loved the way everything was connected towards the end. The characters who did not know each other at the beginning of the book were involved with each other somehow at the end. I even cried at the Indian massacre. (I won't give it away) Just read it and you'll know what I mean! I loved it because it was fictional history, I was learning but also ENJOYING IT! Amazing! If you want to read a great book and expand your mind at the same time, buy Centennial and read it! Trust me! I had to read it and I'm glad I did! AND you won't have to write a 30 page paper on the book EITHER! So read it and don't take for granted the fact you can read this for enjoyment.I wish I could have!
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Summary: Epic history of the West
Review: This book is the only writing of Michener that I have read to date. I watched the mini-series years ago and then I read the book. The story is a wonderful story about the settling of the West and the hardships that the settlers and the Indians alike endured. It is a must read for any history buff. I would also recommend that if you are ever given the chance to see the mini-series, it is well worth the 21 hours to watch it.
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Summary: An education of the Old West that should be a school standar
Review: This book single-handedly saved my grade in my Cattle Kings and Gunfighters class in college. Mitchner paints a broad canvas with beautiful colors with his wonderful writing. His characters are memorable; his settings are breathtaking; and his story is entertaining while also educational.
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Summary: Michener's third best book.
Review: This is one of James Michener's finest novels. It is surpassed by Chesapeake and Hawaii, but it is still nothing short of outstanding. A professor is given an assignment to research an area of Colorado, and he digs deep into the history of this fictional town with fascinating results. The American West comes alive in this story, and you'll love everything about it except for the ending. The ending? There is none! The story just stops. Still A+++.
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Summary: Michener doesn't disappoint
Review: This is the 8th Michener book I've read, and they're all good books. Always well researched and entertaining. This one concerns the fictional town of Centennial, Colorado, and like most books written by Michener, start with the formation of mountains and animal life at the beginning of time, and later focuses on a few families and their extended family trees throughout the ages. He wonderfully illustrates the influences of the many cultures that make up the heart of America, using this one fictional town only as an example. A long read at over 900 pages, but worthwhile.(If you want, though, you can skip the second chapter about the land forming and dinosaurs wandering over the earth... It's pretty dull and has little bearing on the rest of the book.)
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Summary: The Wild Wild Best
Review: this was a greatly written novel. the stories throughout it, grab you and make you feel part of the strory
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