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Summary: A great new beginning for one is a wake up call to others
Review: In the little town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, on July 5, 1906, Grandpa Blakesllee walked into the Tweedy house and told his grandson, Will, to go get his Aunt Loma and mother, Mary, for he had big news to tell them. The news was that he was getting married to Ms. Love Simpson. His engagement was a startle to the whole family since Ms. Love was only thirty years old and even worse; a Yankee. Another reason was that Grandpa had only been a widower for three weeks. Loma and Mary were amazed by the news. They couldn't believe it. The book takes place in a very different time period from ours; where there are certain things that are proper and other things that are far from it. This just happens to be very far from it. Cold Sassy Tree is about a man becoming young and growing old again and his family, friends and community coping with this strange idea. Olive Anne Burns does a wonderful job of discribing the setting so that you feel as if you were there. This book is full of fun and humor while touching the heart. Cold Sassy Tree is a very enjoyable book that I liked and am sure you will too.
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Summary: Keeps you glued to the book
Review: Nothing will ever be the same after Will Tweedy's grandpa three weeks a widower runs off with Miss Love Simpson, a yankee and half his age. Leaving the town in outrage. Whether its daily chores, a camping trip, or even getting run over by a train, Will Tweedy's life is very exciting. Although it was a very interesting book the beging was slow, and this book was long(over 471 pgs). This book gives the reader a good glimpse into the past in a small southern town. What's considered wrong is very differnt from nowadays. My favorite part of the book is when Will Tweedy gets run over by a train. Will Tweedy was on the trestle one morning showing off and having a grand old time, he felt ruthless. All of a sudden he heard the sound of an engine coming; it got louder and louder until it was very close to Will. His heart pounding he lay down real low and wrapped his arms tightl around his body. As the train went over him, all he could think about was the loud sound of the engine piercing his ears. The finally after running over him it stopped. Everyone ran to help and then put him on the train, his dog, the poor little thing was terrfied. If the train didn't start moving they'd crash into the next train coming in a few minutes. Queenie's(the cook) husband jumped off the train got the dog and saved the day. The end of the book was so sad, it almost made me cry.
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Summary: One of the best written coming of age stories I've read.
Review: Cold Sassy Tree is a wonderfully written story
about Will Tweedy and the humorous stories he
weaves about the members of his family as he
grows up at the turn of the century in a small
town in Georgia.
Olive Burns is a master at characterization.
Her use of language in description is flawless.
. The humor and humaness of the people of Cold
Sassy will earn a place in your heart.
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Summary: Best book I ever read!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. It made me laugh, it made me cry. It's so real. Full of small town humor and rumor.
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Summary: A TRUE BOOK THAT IS HONESTLY WORTH EXPERIENCING
Review: Although, I am an avid fan of Steinbeck, I do know what a literary novel is, and this novel is the best I have ever read. Once I completed it, I did not like it, but once the message of what Olive Ann Burns intended for us to reach kicked in, I was so shocked at how much I realized a week after I had completed the novel. It has been a mere eight months since I have last picked it up and I can not reconize a true novel, a real novel any more than this American Classic. Thank you for such a wonderful story!
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Summary: definitely in my top ten
Review: It's been a few years since I read this book, so the details are sketchy, but the impression it left on me is not. I loaned it to a friend shortly after reading it, and still hold it against my friend that she never returned it! I want to read it again!
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Summary: Charming slice of life and love
Review: Somewhere in your past you have probably met people who fit the descriptions of many of this book's characters. Reading this was like walking through a sweet memory. Somehow this story becomes a part of you.
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Summary: The beauty of the book snuck up on me!
Review: I found myself being captured by the tale of a small town and a special family. Never have I read a book that captured me the way this book has. The ending especially moved me, and I found myself silently crying as I read. I couldn't wait to read the sequel! What a shame that we will not be graced with more books by the author
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Summary: A true American classic
Review: In one word, Cold Sassy Tree is marvelous. I've never read a book that made me laugh so much or cry so easily. Through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy, the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia--a community in which everyone knows everyone else and in which any type of gossip circulates through the town in a matter of minutes--comes wonderfully to life. Cold Sassy Tree is bright with humor, fiery with scandal and gossip, rich with emotion, and overall written with a beautiful eye for turn-of-the-century southern life. Olive Ann Burns has truly given America a literary masterpiece
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Summary: wonderful, imaginative, deeply enlightening
Review: Other reviewers have already provided some of the flavor of this book. However, I differ with the view that the main character is the boy, Will. The fact is, Will is only the narrator. The book is actually the story of the last few years of the unforgettable Rucker Blakeslee, a cantankerous old general-store owner who marries a woman 30 years younger than himself, only days after the death of first wife, and thereby scandalizes an entire town. Blakeslee's ornery but deeply considered philosophy of life will remain in your heart and mind longer after you close this book. When you finish the book, don't throw it away! Make sure everyone you truly care about has the privilege of experiencing Rucker Blekeslee
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