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Summary: Better than the others...
Review: This book is much better than the other required reading books I have ever had to read for English, but it still lacks anything to really get you reading. Despite a rather boring introduction and first half, the book speeds up a bit near the second half and becomes a page turner. Some of the things seemed a bit off, honestly, what 14 year old boy lusts after their Grandpa's wife or their Aunt. I am 15 and male and I can honestly say I can't relate. Some things were unrealistic, he would have been killed if run over by the train, and couldn't he at least marry Lightfoot, there needed to be some sort of a happy ending. Well, the book surprised me, I actually wanted to finish it, but it still has room for improvement.
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Summary: Much more than I expected
Review: When I was assigned my summer reading for my English class for next year, I was a little disappointed because they were both books that I had never heard of. So a few days after school ended I started reading Cold Sassy Tree but put it aside for a month before reading it again. Once I picked Cold Sassy Tree up again I was unable to put it down. The story was excellent. It was not a typical boring book that I was assigned. The story gave me a look at the way a person can simply be put off because of what part of town you lived in and where you work like the mill people. Also the way of life in the Southern states and how their feelings about the Civil War and the a Yankee's way of cleaning their house. But more importantly it gave me a clearer picture on differing opinions, something I have not seen in a book as well. In addition, Cold Sassy Tree gives you humor and suprise in a great way. It is one of those books that you just have to read. Also it has made me want to read more about Will Tweedy and Miss Love.
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Summary: Author had no experience.
Review: To quote Emily Dickinson,A word is dead/ When it is said/ Some say. This feeling remained throughout the entirety of Cold Sassy Tree; Olive Ann Burns doesn't know enough (and doesn't possess the skill as an author) to recreate life in the 1906 Deep South. The book was written by a white woman retelling (and embellishing) the tales told to her by her white grandfather. There is no apparent racial tension, which I would not have expected from the South at this time. The book's underlying theme of the grandfather's remarriage is accompanied by a string of unrelated stories about car trips, camping, etc.; the smaller tales seemed unnecessary and had no effect on the main plot (what little there was). I suppose that Burns kept these tales to present a feeling of the times. If they were accurate, Burns did succeed in impressing an image of life in 1906: dull and utterly bereft of relevance to the real world.
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Summary: Bravo, for COLD SASSY TREE!
Review: This book tells a wonderful story about a 14-year old boy growing up in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia. SInce this book was an assignment I didn't think that it was goign to be that interesting. But as the boy Will Tweedy would say BOY HOWDY! was i wrong. It was so interesting and filled with fascinating adventures. The book comes to life and you can't hel but read more. There is excitment, sadness and fascination that you will experience while reading this book. At times you may cry because the author so magnificently portraied a moment that feels like is actually happening in your own life. Take my advice and pick up a copy. ... So get reading...
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Summary: one of my all-time favorites
Review: I adored this book. I've re-read it so many times my copy is falling apart. I've lent it to half a dozen people, all of whom claimed not to like "books like that." They have all loved it. It is a wonderfully poignant, moving story about essential (and I have to say, inherently Southern) truths: family can be your best friend and your worst enemy; life always has one more twist; and the forces that shape us never quite leave us. My one regret is that the second installment was never finished.
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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: I read this book as a class asignment. I thought it was going to be awful because of the length, but as it turms out I really enjoyed it. Some of my friends even cried at the end. This should be required reading at every southern school.
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Summary: Comments from a teenage writer, sort of
Review: ... I was required to read this book in school. Being biased against the tedious, coming-of-age novels that always seem to find themselves on my reading list for English class, I immediately labeled Cold Sassy Tree under the "dragging, bland, slow-moving" category. My viewpoints have changed since then. Cold Sassy Tree is a fast-paced, interesting novel about the coming-of-age of a fourteen-year-old boy named Will, who grows up in Cold Sassy, Georgia. A major family conflict sets off the cruel, small-town gossipers of Cold Sassy in the beginning of the book. As the books progresses, several smaller plots take place, which support the theme and thus complicate the story. There are some points in the novel where it seems that Will's family's reputation has gone to the dogs. In the end, however, everything works out and Will learns lessons about life, love, and dignity. For the romantic, Cold Sassy Tree covers the acceptnace of so-called "odd couples." For the religious, Cold Sassy Tree questions theological issues. And for teenage boys also coming of age, Cold Sassy Tree views life from the eyes of a fourteen-year-old (as well as comments on the opposite sex).
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Summary: Chick flick book
Review: This book was not good. The entire thing was so predictable I thought I had read it before. The whole thing has a kind of generic feel to it; nothing was exciting or surprising. I do not recommend that anyone read this book unless you are a middle aged woman who likes to read about families that don't get along. As it said on the back cover, it hurt to turn the last page. It hurt to turn every page...
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Summary: Will-Boy
Review: I listened to the abridged version of Cold Sassy Tree, as read by Richard Thomas, in anticipation of San Diego Opera's coming production. I enjoyed the audio tapes very much. Richard Thomas made a very believable narrator as Will, the boy who sees and experiences so much. This is the story of a wise, if naive, coming-of-age boy, his oft misunderstood, but sage grandfather, and all the family and community members who surround them. Grandfather's marriage to a much younger mate is at the heart of this tender story of people in a rural community of another era.
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Summary: Cold Sassy Tree Review
Review: Cold Sassy Tree was a real interest-getter. There was always something new stirring up in the little town of Cold Sassy. Poor Will, he went through so much, with deaths of a close friend and some of his family members, and getting in trouble for all sorts of things! I felt in touch with him in his situations. The family had to deal with a lot too. Will's mother's father went off and married another woman who was young enough to be his daughter, just three weeks after his wife had died. Will's mother and her sister disapproved of this and there were many obsticles to face after this marriage. So many other things along the way came to surface and some turned out for the worst, but no matter what happens to this family they still get along and stick together. Olive Ann Burns writes so that you can really relate to the characters. I felt involved in the story and almost as if I could predict what would happen next. She's very descriptive so it's easy to put yourself into that situation. I didn't want to put the book down because i wanted to know what was going to pop up next in Cold Sassy. I really enjoyed the book and would deffinaly recomend it to my friends!
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