Cold Mountain

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Summary: depressing and pointless
Review: It is slow to start and goes downhill from there. I read on and finished it only because the reviews had been so good. I kept thinking that it would get better, but in the end it was very disappointing and unsatisfying. The reviews were misleading and I'll never again buy books that those reviewers recommend.

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Summary: Went on too long for me!
Review: I appear to be a minority after reading some of the other reviews. I had to read this for a book group and started it five days before. I had a hard time staying awake every night to read 70 pages. The descriptions although vivid got tiring to me. I guess I like a story with a little more action.

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Summary: Best book Ive read so far this year
Review: Its all been said. The author's dry style may put you off for the first 4 pages. Dont let it. Could be a perfect world if they based a mini-series on this novel.

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Summary: Gifted writer in need of a story
Review: I won't spoil the ending for you(the author will do that himself), but I would have gladly suffered through a few more chapters if it meant finding a reasonable outcome.

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Summary: Destined to become one of my top 10 favorites!
Review: This was a wonderful read, right to the last page. When I was finished, I couldn't wait to share it with friends, but as I sat there holding Cold Mountain, I wasn't at all sure that I was going to be able to phyiscally part with this book for quite awhile. Not many books have made me feel that way. I loved it, start to finish!

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Summary: A sweet, sad, allegorical, memorable and masterful tale
Review: I have done my recent duty and waded through "The Information" and "Underworld" and "In The Beauty of the Lilies" and have, in turn, loved each of them. However, I have devoted the last thirty years of my life to the pursuit of the works of increasingingly irrelevant and obtuse writers......and along comes Charles Frazier. This is a great story. This is an uplifting story. This is a love story. This is a story about America. As an Australian, I can say that this is a story that every American should read, and from it take pride in his/her country and it's storytellers. I will read and reread this story.

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Summary: Rewriting Cival War History?
Review: It was fun to see what that kooky preacher Veasey would do next, but I was a little put off about the discriptions of the Confederate Generals on Maryes Heights. The authors agenda was to make them look like war mongering asses who thought of the men more as chess game pieces than soliders. "The two generals spent the afternoon up on the hill coining fine phrases like a couple of wags." I guess Mr. Frazier is more of a CW expert than Catton, Gallager, Robertson, Sears, Headley, etc...

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Summary: Beautiful Love Story
Review: This was a beautiful love story in the tradition of great Breaux novels. I cried every time I read the third chapter. I would like to have seen more written about Herren.

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Summary: Wow! Haven't read anything this good since college!
Review: For the first time in a long time, I'm not ashamed of frittering away my time, reading. This one was well worth the time and I'll recommend it to others who are interested in "fine" reading!

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Summary: HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK
Review: There is a certain slow, southerner pacing about this book that urbanites and northerners might find trying, at first. However, once you are able to slow your pace to a saunter, this book becomes a long talk on the back porch, the slow unwinding of a neighbor's story while sipping gin and tonics. The problem then becomes finishing this lovely story too fast.