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Summary: Not to bad
Review: Well this was a definite turn around in books I normally read. I'm usually into those teen age sob stories, but I enjoyed this book more than I thought! It was old fashion and alittle bit hard to read with all that slang, but considering I'm from a small town alot of people talk some what like that, so it was pretty neat. I also like how it brought us the situation with the older man (the grandpa) seeing the woman half his age (then eventually marrying her, and getting pregnant), because now-a-days this is happening alot, and its usually the kids that are not happy with it. So I would totally recommend this book to someone who's looking for a change in their reading!
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Summary: Cold Sassy Tree- A Lesson to be Learned
Review: Cold Sassy Tree was a novel that captured passion as well as teaching you a lesson of life as you read. Cold Sassy Tree taught me to not judge others. The theme of this novel was that judging others will only bring judgement on yourself. Cold Sassy Tree is a story about a small town growing old and an old man regaining his youth. In the story, word gets around fast in Cold Sassy, Georgia. For instance, when Grandpa Blakeslee announced one July morning in 1906 that he was going to marry Miss Love Simpson, only 3 weeks after Granny died, everyone knew within hours. As the news spread, judgement came fast. Many people were quick to judge Mr. Blakeslee for the event of marrying someone half his age, but they did not look so freely at their own mistakes and choices in their lives. In my opinion, Cold Sassy Tree was an excellent novel and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Doesn't the racism bother anyone?
Review: I found the book well written and the characters believable - but not likable. They were the rich family in the town and never seemed to grasp that their racist and elitist views were wrong. Only the yankee, Love, seemed to have any sense about how to treat those that were less fortunate, probably because she felt like garbage herself. I kept hoping the book would climax with the entire family learning that their position in their community didn't make it OK to look down and treat others so poorly. The idea that the mill workers were disgusting and that Black people just loved being the servants made the book hard for me to like. Although you had a sense that the author didn't agree with these views, the characters never seemed to get it.
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Summary: Loving Memory
Review: Cold Sassy Tree will always have a place in my heart. I finished reading this sweet and tender story as I sat by my father's hospital bed. It reinforced my love of life and family and consoled me when my father passed away a few hours later.
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Summary: Cold Sassy Tree
Review: I think that this was not a good book. It never interested me and was borning through out the whole book. They did not speak proper English which is very hard to understand. All the book ever focuses on is Will's family which gets boring real quick. The book also jumps in and out of the present and past. At the end it starts to pick up and gets better,but I still think this is not a good book. Personnally I think it was a waste of my time.
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Summary: Cold Sassy Tree
Review: My opinion on this book was it was an OK book. It was very hard to get into. It does not start getting good until the very middle of the book. The first was very boring. All it did was tell about the scenery and the different people in the book that were not even important to the story of the book. After all that, the book gets very interesting and heart filling. It means a lot to the different people who grew up like they did. It is a book that you have to get interested in, you can not just read it for the heck of it. It has to have meaning to you.
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Summary: My review
Review: When I first read this book, I thought it might be a good because it was about a kid my age. But once I started reading it, it turned out to be boring and drawn out. First of all, the author wrote a bunch of useless facts ( I thought). I think that the whole part of them going into the mountains and camping was just a waste of time. This book would have been atleast 100 pages shorter. If the author of this would have based the book around the questions on the test I took on the computer, it would have been interresting and shorter, but i did like the end of it because i never saw it coming.
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Summary: "Southern Charm meets the Real World"
Review: It is amazing how Olive Ann Burns creates her characters and blends them all into a close-knit community. And it is thier diversity that creates the conflict that is the very soul of the novel. A boy grows up in a world that is not perfect, and things are not always the way you want them to be. However, between Will Tweedy and his Grandfather, it creates a warm, close relationship that is kept in close memory. This book is not for all ages, because of some of the mature concepts, but could be read by younger children as an Allegory. Overall, this book speaks to the heart and soul of the south, its pride and predujices, and the rise and fall of the human condition. FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY.
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Summary: CS Tree is good.
Review: .....I, like many others read this book for Hon English class. Amazon told me that I might gave this book a 4.5 because of the 5 I gave to To Kill A Mocking Bird. Well, that was a pretty good guess. Cold Sassy Tree is not perfect, so many small events occured during the story that I'm not sure if they're purposed to support the theme or to complicate it. Despite the confusion on the theme, I have no doubt it's a love story. I was quite satisfied and interested in reading it until I reached the ending. To me it was so full of disappointments that I felt I'd been exploited for turning all those pages. I did expect to get a happy ending like most books, where the guy gets the girl of his dreams, everybody is living, and no tree gets uprooted. I suppose Ann Burns had to do it so everyone will read the sequel. But if you liked To Kill a Mocking Bird, you will love this book because it's touching and beautifully written....
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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: This novel is a wonderful coming of age story told thru the viewpoint of 14 yr old Will Tweedy. Like most teenagers, he has a lot of questions about life and love, which most of the adults around him seem reluctant to be totally honest about. And like most teenagers, he's willing to eavesdrop or observe the dramas that occur around him, in order to find his own answers. The members of his family and the townspeople are seem real. The writing reflects the Southern accents of that region from
that time. The events that occur reflect a pretty even-handed mix of comedy, drama and melodrama. I read this book in 2 days, and I hated to leave these people. Ms. Burns did a wonderful job of creating a believable universe.
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